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Armageddon Blues

by Kyp Harness

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Armageddon Blues 04:22
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ARMAGEDDON BLUES My brain’s clogged up, so are my eyes My ears are numb from hearin’ so many lies It’s so upsettin’ I got the I’m-a-gettin’ bored of Armageddon Blues Fancy coffee in the cup, funny money in the bank Sendin’ children off to war to fill up the tank It’s got me sweatin’ I got the I’m-a-gettin’ bored of Armageddon Blues I turn on the TV, see the devil from Hell Turn on the radio, he’s on there as well It’s so upsettin’ I got the I’m-a-gettin’ bored of Armageddon Blues The world’s on fire, the air is hot Take my children to the school, pray they don’t get shot So many tears sheddin’ I got the I’m-a-gettin’ bored of Armageddon Blues Along comes The Man, says you gotta lay down You can die in a fight or become part of the ground It’s got me sweatin’ I got the I’m-a-gettin’ bored of Armageddon Blues Sorry ‘bout the family, that’s just the way it is Torture and slavery, it’s all part of the biz So many tears sheddin’ I got the I’m-a-gettin’ bored of Armageddon Blues All the leaders great and small have pledges a war without an end And they never will surrender, long as they got life to spend It’s got me sweatin’ I got the I’m-a-gettin’ bored of Armageddon Blues The world’s been coming to an end for ten thousand centuries Why can’t we get the job done right? Maybe then we all can get a little peace No more bloodsheddin’ I got the I’m-a-gettin’ bored of Armageddon Blues
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Big Deal! 03:32
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BIG DEAL! You wash your hair And you brush your teeth And you fix your clothes So you look real neat You smile at yourself in the mirror And then you turn out the light And you walk out of the door At six o’clock at night You go and you meet your friends And you think you’re really cool Then maybe you go out to a bar someplace Or maybe you go shoot some pool It’s a real big deal It’s a real big deal It’s a big damn deal Big deal! You go to a bar with your friends And you have a couple of beers And you think you’re really rolling now You think you’re really in gear And you walk down the street with your friends And you laugh at everyone Because you think that everybody is a loser And you think you’re number one Then you pick up some girl at a party And you take her home and tell her stories about your life And you think you’re a poet-philosopher You think you’re really wise Then you get so drunk you don’t even make any sense anymore You get so drunk you can’t even stand up on your own two feet anymore And you pass out and fall asleep across the table With your beer bottle in your hand It’s a real big deal It’s a real big deal It’s a big damn deal Big deal! The next morning you wake up And you put on a brand new shirt And you get in your car and drive down to The place where you work And you walk down the hall to your office And you sit behind your desk And somebody hands you a bunch of pieces of paper And you sign them with your pen And you think you’re really respectable Because you’re wearing a suit and a tie You think you’re really exceptional You think you’re a really great guy You’re a real big deal You’re a real big deal You’re a big damn deal Big deal!
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Low Dishonourable Men 03:53
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LOW DISHONOURABLE MEN They meet in boardrooms every day Just to play their games Low dishonourable men With low dishonourable aims When you think the world is changin’ But then it doesn’t, that’s because They’re the ones in charge of Ensuring that it never does They got too much invested In keeping things the way they are With themselves in the driver’s seat And everybody else pushin’ the car They’re traitors to the human race They’re an evolutionary disgrace Low dishonourable men With low dishonourable aims They want to pollute the earth They want to pollute the sky If there’s a nickel in it They’ll even watch a baby seal puppy die They don’t care about you Except to get you pick up the check But they really hate your grandchildren It’s their world they’re trying to wreck Liars, criminals and thieves And killers of precision Hustlers, con men and cardsharks All wrapped up in the robes of religion They’re traitors to the human race They’re an evolutionary disgrace Low dishonourable men And low dishonourable dames They want to start a war As long as they don’t see any action They’ll even invade a country Just to see what happens They want to kill for oil They want to drill for oil too So they can speed up global warming Till we’re all livin’ in a toxic stew Might be the guy in power Might be the man in the business suit Might be the lowly slave rowing the boat Thinkin’ he’s bein’ cute They want to take food away from the hungry Give it to the ones who are stuffed Take away from the have-nots Give to the have-more-than-enough They’re destroying the miracle of life itself But hey, that’s okay! Because everybody just lets them do it As they apologize for gettin’ in the way They’re traitors to the human race They’re an evolutionary disgrace Low dishonourable men With low dishonourable aims They’re traitors to the human race They’re an evolutionary disgrace Low dishonourable men And low dishonourable dames
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Easy Money 02:36
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EASY MONEY Take a look around the world, tell me what you find One man workin’ with his back, the other with his mind You got one guy livin’ on the street, sleepin’ in the rain Another in a king-size waterbed, it’s never gonna change Some people look around the world and see a tragedy I look and see a money-making opportunity Easy money, out there for the takin’ You can sleep your life away or be out there makin’ bacon It’s a land of opportunity, there’s room for you to break in Jump out of your easy chair, give yourself a shakin’ Easy money, waitin’ to be taken I wanna buy a mansion, wanna buy a yacht Sail around the world show everybody what I got Tiger fur-lined toilet seats make the peasants drool I wanna show the world I’m not anybody’s fool Right now I might be on welfare but that don’t bother me much I know which way the wind blows, know which buttons to push For that easy money, out there for the takin’ You can sleep your life away or be out there makin’ bacon It’s a land of opportunity, there’s room for you to break in Jump out of your futon, give yourself a shakin’ Easy money, waitin’ to be taken I wanna be a VIP, I wanna dress to kill I wanna blow my nose with a fifty dollar bill I’ll give some money away, to show you where I stand To charity so you can see I really give a damn They talk to you of love, they talk to you of freedom Love is love and love is nice but you know you can’t eat it Give me easy money, out there for the takin’ You can sleep your life away or be out there makin’ bacon It’s a land of opportunity, there’s room for you to break in Jump out of your couch, give yourself a shakin’ Easy money, waitin’ to be taken They tell you to work hard and someday you’ll be a man But you’ll never make a million with a shovel in your hand You gotta hedge your bets, you gotta hide your tracks If you don’t want to eat cockroaches in a corrugated shack Right now I might be down and out, beggin’ on the street But there’ll come a time when I’ll get mine and you’ll be beggin’ me For my easy money, out there for the takin’ You can sleep your life away or be out there makin’ bacon It’s a land of opportunity, there’s room for you to break in Jump out of your bed, give yourself a shakin’ Easy money, waitin’ to be taken Do what you want to do Be what you want to be But it’s money money money Money money sets you free
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Where You Belong 02:33
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WHERE YOU BELONG See you on the subway, see you on the street I see you in the movies and I see you on TV Always runnin’ ‘round with a smile on your lips Wigglin’ your fingers and shakin’ your hips Always lightin’ fires, tryin’ to cause a big commotion Assorted dull perversions, misspent emotion Somebody’s grandma, somebody’s brother Always leapin’ into bed with somebody’s mother Nothin’s right and nothin’s wrong But that don’t matter ‘cause it won’t be long Until you’re right back down in the dirt where you belong With your oversized head and your undersized mind You were born to exploit every sickness that you find Some people think you’re God but I know you’re just a fraud You think my world’s a toilet bowl, hey buddy, thanks a lot You sit behind your desk collecting your commissions On sex, religion politics and the other drug addiction Another walking time bomb with a jacket and a tie on Another filthy liar with his face stuck in the mire Nothin’s right and nothin’s wrong But that don’t matter ‘cause it won’t be long Until you’re right back down in the dirt where you belong It’s so frightening, isn’t it exciting? The whole world’s dying, tryin’ to change its luck Everybody’ waitin’ just calculatin’ To separate some sucker from his hard-earned buck Saw you goin’ around the corner, goin’ around the bend With that squirming little sickening sack of shit you call your friend Bubonic plague, malaria, necrophilia, psoriasis There’s a market for it somewhere, all you have to do is find it You say ‘Everyone’s a salesman’ as you pound upon my door If everyone’s a salesman, who’s minding the store? I know we all gotta make a livin’, I’m not tryin’ to knock it All I ask is please just get your hand out of my pocket Nothin’s right and nothin’s wrong But that don’t matter ‘cause it won’t be long Until you’re right back down in the dirt where you belong
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We Own It Now 06:42
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WE OWN IT NOW They got off the boat, they cleared the land They displaced the Indian They built a railroad across the continent Sacrificed many a Chinese woman and man They wrote some laws, they built some walls And from their podiums they vowed: We own it now He was a farmer but the prices went down He had it much harder than the ones in town Couldn’t pay his bills so the banker man came Took away his farm, he wandered off in shame They stood with folded arms when he came back To reclaim his plow: We own it now From country to country it’s the same old thing Your place at the table depends on what you can bring You got to toe the bottom line Or meet a fate of your own design The ship of state has sailed And written on the prow: We own it now Went to my hometown, there was nothin’ goin’ on But a bunch of people walkin’ around lookin’ for something to pawn Poison in the river, smoke in the sky All that was meant to make you live was now meant to make you die I went to the country and I saw a tattoo On the ear of a cow: We own it now They levelled the mountains, they toppled the trees They came for you, they came for me By a dying lake, on a glass-strewn shore A mangy dog sits lickin’ his sores By the smoldering junkyard, by the garbage scow A sign’s been hoisted up somehow: We own it now Miles and miles of highway Layers and layers of decay A tiny planet floats in the vast nothingness Resuscitation attempted without success Dimly read are the words With all the clarity a telescope allows – We own it now They came out of the jungle with a calculating brain Which allowed them to scramble to the top of the food chain Slaughtering everything in sight with a machete Turning the environment into confetti Just so they could sit with all their hoodlum friends Atop a hill of skulls and avow: We own it now
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Gunpowder + Money 03:35
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GUNPOWDER + MONEY Baby don’t you worry, baby don’t you cry We’re gonna beat this thing, by and by Got all the lovin’ anybody could stand Got all the lovin’ in the palm of our hand What’ve they got anyhow, that makes their days so sunny? Gunpowder + money The Indian man lived here, then the white man came around Indian man gonna live here and the white man won’t be found Funny how the most dangerous thing, they never seem to fear it A proud determined heart, a dedicated spirit They might be laughin’ now but someday it won’t be funny Gunpowder + money Gunpowder and money go together like a sister and a brother Gunpowder and money, can’t have one without the other Everywhere I look, everything I see Is ruled by gunpowder, money and pornography Man on the platform talkin’ ‘bout freedom Everybody needs somethin’, somethin’ to believe in You can listen to the words or you can watch the action Take a look around you if you want to know what’s happenin’ You’ll see what they believe in, it ain’t the Easter bunny It’s gunpowder + money Gunpowder and money go together like a father and a mother Gunpowder and money, if you want one you better get the other Everywhere I look, everything I see Is ruled by gunpowder, money, and mediocrity Armies of liberty are comin’ to your town They’re gonna set you free or put you in the ground They think they got the might because they are right But they just believe they’re right because they got the might Better watch your mouth, don’t let your tongue slip, honey Gunpowder + money Baby don’t you worry, baby don’t you cry We’re gonna beat this thing, by and by Got all the lovin’ anybody could stand Got all the lovin’ in the palm of our hand What’ve they got anyhow, that makes their days so sunny? Gunpowder + money
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The Black Donnellys 07:18
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THE BLACK DONNELLYS Undercover of the night Down a dark country road The men walked in no moonlight And they bore a heavy load Of farm tools and shovels And one of them had a knife They were heading to a farmhouse To take a family’s life In the farmhouse down the road The family had turned in Never knowing in their sleep That their sleep would never end It was sad, it was bad The night The Black Donnellys went down They’d been nothing but trouble For twenty years or more Some say it was ancient feud Brought here from Ireland’s shore The father James Donnelly killed a man In a dispute over land He served seven years In the Kingston pen When he got out his sons were operating a stagecoach business Where they kept the competition in line By slaughtering their horses, Setting carriages on fire Some say they weren’t guilty of all they were accused of Some say they did more than anybody knew But anyone who might’ve testified Was too terrified to Still it was sad, it was bad The night The Black Donnellys went down The people of the town of Lucan Decided to send a hint They set the Donnellys’ barn on fire But the Donnellys hung in The sheriff decided to arrest the two Donnelly brothers Accompanied at his side By a mob who’d blackened all their faces So they’d not be recognized They came to the farmhouse, Tom Donnelly opened the door Resisted arrest, and cried As the mob fell upon him And beat him till he died His father, James Donnelly, came to help They hit him with a spade over the head And knocked him to the floor And kicked him till he was dead The mother Johanna Donnelly came to see what was going on They beat her to death too And their niece, Bridget Donnelly, who was visiting from Ireland Heaven’s gates she soon knew Then they set the house on fire And it burned all night till the sun appeared Then they picked up the Donnelly’s skulls from the ashes To keep as souvenirs It was sad, it was bad The night The Black Donnellys went down Everybody in the town of Lucan Knew somebody or was a friend of a friend Or was themselves a member of that mob But you’d never know it to look at them They had a trial at which no-one was convicted Nor was anyone ever intended to ‘Cause anyone who might’ve testified Was too terrified to They had another trial to settle up the matter No-one was convicted there either It was a crime without a criminal A slaughter with no slaughterer Now everyone who was in that mob is dead And the ones who remembered them have faded away No-one’s around to object or take offense to The new museum with a gift shop in the foyer But some people say they see the ghosts waiting for justice Floating above the fields Some say a horse won’t walk past the Donnelly homestead After the midnight bell has pealed My father used to say that everytime one of the mob died A Donnelly relative would appear in town And go to the funeral and stand by the graveside And spit on the coffin as it went down It was sad, it was bad The night The Black Donnellys went down
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Ipperwash 06:32
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IPPERWASH It was a burial ground on the shores of Lake Huron The government borrowed from the Natives during World War Two Sayin’ “We need this land to train our forces on When the war is over we’ll give it back to you” Fifty years after the war had ended The Natives wondered when the government would honour its vow When they realized the answer was never They decided that the time was now Dudley George lived with his cousin in a trailer In the park they’d made the burial ground into They occupied the land in peaceful protest In hopes the government would do what it said it was gonna do Ipperwash, forever your name tells the tale Of how they kill who they cannot push around Ipperwash, forever your name tells the tale Of how they shot Dudley George down Everywhere Dudley George walked there was laughter He was a man who loved his freedom and his fun Even took his name from the cartoon Dudley Do-Right They Canadian Mountie character he loved when he was young His cousin Clifford George lived in that trailer He was a veteran of the Korean War He came back expecting the fulfillment Of the promise made by the country he’d fought for As summer ended and the cool breezes blew Thirty unarmed men, women and children joined them on the land Comin’ in the fall so as not to disturb vacationers They made their peaceful stand Ipperwash, forever your name tells the tale Of how they kill who they cannot push around Ipperwash, forever your name tells the tale Of how they shot Dudley George down All the children of the area loved Dudley George Every day he could be seen with quite a few They’d fight among themselves to go on runs to the variety store To get him the Bazooka bubble gum he loved to chew But in the Premier’s office they did exclaim “We’ve been pandering to these Indians for too long We gotta make an example of them, by any means necessary – I don’t care how you do it, I want’em gone” The Deputy Commissioner said “We got a redneck government here – About the Indians they could not care less These guys are barrel suckers, man, they’re in love with guns They just want us to go in and kick some ass.” Ipperwash, forever your name tells the tale Of how they kill who they cannot push around Ipperwash, forever your name tells the tale Of how they shot Dudley George down So it was that thirty unarmed men, women and children Were greeted by the sight Of a riot squad and a sniper unit armed with submachine guns Comin’ to them through the night There were shots, there was shouting in the chaos People running and getting beaten all around As the bullets tore through the darkness And the body of Dudley George fell to the ground His sister, Cully George, drove him past the cops to the hospital In a beaten-up car that kept on breakin’ down They never told her that he died till after they arrested her They thought she was the one who shot him down Ipperwash, forever your name tells the tale Of how they kill who they cannot push around Ipperwash, forever your name tells the tale Of how they shot Dudley George down The man who pulled the trigger got his wrist slapped The man who gave the command, he still walks free And don’t it make any decent person want to hang their head in shame To know he acted in the pay of you and me? Dudley George was lowered into his grave With his peace pipe and a pack of Bazooka bubble gum He left a memory of laughter in the heart of everyone who knew him And a question beating louder like a drum Sometimes you fool yourself the war is over Sometimes war is all you see Sometimes you gotta turn around and wonder If your county’s anything it ever claimed to be Ipperwash, forever your name tells the tale Of how they kill who they cannot push around Ipperwash, forever your name tells the tale Of how they shot Dudley George down
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Look Out World 04:44
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LOOK OUT WORLD Look out world, you’re not the perfect world But you’re the only world we know You’re our home, might be a broken home But you’re the only home we know We stick you with needles and we tell our lies As we pray for help up to the skies While all the while we stand upon the world Look out world You give us stuff, then we want more stuff Then we meet some other people who want the same stuff too We fight our wars, and we’re not satisfied Until each side has lost a thousand or two Then we raise our flags and salute our heroes Who’d give every bit of their glory To walk through the sun and the wind and the rain again Look out world, if we do such things to ourselves God knows what we’ll do to you We raise our flags and salute our heroes Never seeing that the ones on the other side of the line Share the very same world as we do Look out world, if we do such things to ourselves God knows what we’ll do to you Look out world, you’re not the perfect world But you’re the only world we know You’re our home, might be a broken home But you’re the only home we know.

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released April 7, 2019

Produced by Dale Morningstar and Kyp Harness

Kyp Harness - guitar, vocals
Dale Morningstar - guitar, vocals, bass
Dr. Pee - piano, organ, vocals, bass
Dave Clark - drums, bass, vocals

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