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Words and Music by Pat Westmacott
Featuring Bern Kinnear on bass

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Watching em twist in the wind
In a cycle of perpetual spin
Threats shouted from the hole
They dug themselves shilling for
The chickenhawk pretend economist

Armed with a fiction and a chip
On the shoulder and a quivering lip
Teen angst hyperbole
For the way it used to be
The story of the torch and the bridge

A decade denying evidence
Of environment and economic sense
Til the man in the blue suit
Turned tail and flew the coup
And left his stooges holding the cheque

The pride before the fall was wholly self inflicted
Matchsticks and kerosene aren’t meant for building bridges
Like old dogs and new tricks, progress meets resistance
But economies and stupid can’t be fixed
In an instant

A one hundred eighty degree (a one hundred eighty degree)
About face hypocrisy (whoa)
On display for all sapient to see
In unhinged apoplexy

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from Bottle Hymns, released July 14, 2023

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