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so I rewrote an old, old, old, old song of mine (well, 2013 old) for a Black Lives Matter and police brutality-themed compilation that was thankfully shelved due to bad metrics (despite the best efforts of the organizers - a couple of podcasters who I talked to about some Aerosmith album). i thought, "yeah, this could work with the whole 'doom and gloom' theme of Perversions/Wide Range/whatever I've taken to calling the album in shorthand this week" before I realized that it and another song were absolute pains to mix properly.

so I 86'd them. the replacement track for these songs? I'm not telling you. you'll find out as soon as the album's finished.

initially directly about the murder of George Floyd - you don't call his death accidental if he's begging you to let up on his neck and begging for his mom and you don't do it because something something strong arm of the law something something racism something something punitive justice being disturbingly normalized - this became a much more surreal song that, while I still name-dropped Derek Chauvin and Kyle Rittenhouse, could easily be applied to anybody who just okays oppressive evil and subjugation because they justify it as some sort of greater good.

now with an added raw spouge section because honestly I was just listening to the Draytons Two and Jackie Opel and thought, "sure beats referencing the same Harry Belafonte and deep-cut calypso songs that make up 20% of the Vampire Weekend back catalog." but here it is, listen to the Draytons Two. listen to spouge. it's like garage old-time ska. the kind of ska you'd listen to and think "why wasn't this bigger than that thing they play in Barbados a couple of times a year?"

oh yeah the vox might be a bit too loud on this

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Transfiguration gone under
a symbol for a sort of Murphy’s law
the land of opportunity, where we chunder
at the mere suggestion of the fall
of the centennial status quo
to a frontier God only knows
in your eye the evil’s commonplace
keeps you safe and sane

What the hell is the matter
where you go it always shatters
you oppressor, please give us an answer
cause the situation gets sadder
you say it's justifiable
your anger's forever deniable
it's all unreliable
to your dying day it's justifiable

the maestro of it all snuffed him out
St. Stephen felt like me on the 8th
when the rainbow bridge was crossed
instilling within me a sense of doubt
Abba Derek, do you harbor hate
do you walk by the killer song
the son of God can’t look at you
he looks at Kyle the same way too

What the hell is the matter
where you go it always shatters
you oppressor, please give us an answer
cause the situation gets sadder
you say it's justifiable
your anger's forever deniable
it's all unreliable
to your dying day it's justifiable

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from Justifiable​/​Hot Games and Video Sauce, released December 28, 2020
Liebermintz - guitars, bass, drum programming, Farfisa, "vocals," "production"

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