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Temnere - The Grifter

from SpinTunes #15 Round 3 by Spintunes

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in the style of: Bad Religion

song bio:
for the unfamiliar, this is a good primer on bad religion (though 'thesaurus punk' alone does a pretty good job summing it up): music.avclub.com/where-to-begin-with-the-thesaurus-punk-of-bad-religion-1798278095

hopefully my pick is not too obscure, i've wanted to do a bad religion style song for some time now so this seemed like as good an opportunity as any! stripping down to basic instrumentation is hard, i miss my keyboards and guitar harmonies.

lyrics

you talk of revolution
this land of discontent
you claim to be the one
to free us from the grip of tyrants

but why should we believe you
where is your providence
a perspicacious glance can
see that all your views are pliant

your claim to want to help us
an altruist veneer
one more familiar screed then
"dont forget to tune back in right here"


for the proliferation
of narrative ablation
you'll join their federation
of sycophantic swine

why would you do this to us
your morals incongruous
oh you'll say anything now
just to make a dime

the grifter, a righteous pantomime
one day you're the star
but then you find its gone too far

a whisper, of conscience on your mind
the itch of an old scar

the grifter, in just the nick of time
tragedy has struck
and now its time to make a buck

a whisper, time to capitalize
still don't give a fuck

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from SpinTunes #15 Round 3, released December 2, 2018

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