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Well, That Escalated Quickly

from I Do My Work by Team Sofa

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This is pretty much just a straight up one-take rant. Got to have at least one.

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A kind of primate once evolved,
With an upright walk and a bulbous skull,
The better to house the abundant bulk
Of the brain that eats so many calories.

Fast forward a couple of million years,
There’s been some kind of awful mistake, it appears,
‘Cos, instead of creating a world free from fear,
They’re just arguing over their salaries.

I find it hard to say exactly where we fucked it,
The actual moment that our morals kicked the bucket,
Arseholes everywhere from Norwich to Nantucket,
Seems not one can see a rich man’s dick without trying to suck it.

Everybody feels the boot upon their faces,
But some are shining it and doing up the laces,
Licking off the sticky little residual traces
Of the blood and brains of children torn apart in foreign places.

Sound the alarms! There are illegals at the border!
They’re going to pose a deadly threat to social order!
You know that thing that we’ve strategically ignored
For several decades while industrial communities got poorer.

Society’s a myth! Sell off the council houses!
Society’s at risk! We need emergency powers! It’s
So transparently bullshit, and it just goes on for hours,
I don’t know if it’s more 1984 or Fawlty fucking Towers, it’s

The inevitable fall of the Empires of the West, bruv,
Sure, in the long term you could say it’s for the best, but,
In the meantime there are children dying on their mother’s breast, ‘cos
The reconstruction contracts are attractive to investors, it’s

Hard to make jokes about the deaths of refugees,
It’s hard to satirise a world that’s on its knees, there’s
Not that much left in the tube, no matter how you squeeze,
I’m running out of metaphors for terminal disease.

A kind of primate once evolved,
With an upright walk and a bulbous skull,
The better to house the abundant bulk
Of the brain that produces such miracles,

Fast forward a couple of million years,
And what’s filling the space between my ears
Is the sound of a thousand children’s tears
And that’s not even fucking satirical.

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from I Do My Work, released June 30, 2019

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