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Take 'Em Out

from Virtually Alive EP by John Parkes

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It’s fun to occasionally take the view from ‘the other side’. This song is a bit obvious and in your face I suppose but I have come across people with this sort of attitude. I feel a bit sorry for them – for about 5 seconds. The people who do a bit of work, get successful (often doing something completely useless or actually destructive and generally from an advantageous starting point) and think that it’s all down to their ‘hard work’ and everyone could do it if they wanted. And then think they’re somehow suffering because of all the people a lot poorer than them. I also added the anti-green stuff to come from the same person. Someone somewhere will think this is what I actually believe rather than me singing as someone who is not actually me but hey, what can you do?

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Take ‘Em Out

Take ‘em out, those whinging, wasting poor
Starve ‘em out, those foodbank, fast-food whores
Take ‘em down with iron fist and claw
Kill ‘em all, send them all to war

They take my share price down
I like to watch them drown
There’s just too many around…

Take ‘em out, those free healthcare junkies
Take ‘em out, those public transport monkeys
Take ‘em down, those heavy industry dreamers
Take ‘em down, those banker bashing lefties

They offend my eyes
They take up my time
They don’t even try…

To inherit proper money like me
To go to a proper school and learn like me
To break the rules and make laws for money
To save it offshore like Number One, like me

Take ‘em out, those solar powered scum
Take ‘em out, those tidal windfarm bums
Take ‘em down, those insulation runts
Take ‘em down with their polar bear themed stunts

They want to save the world
Though such a thing’s absurd
They should save themselves…

From conscience to be selfish, to be free
Mis-selling for a bonus, rig the market take a fee
Speculate, accumulate, asset stripping tease
For money-laundering tax evading heroes like me

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from Virtually Alive EP, released September 18, 2017
Drums by Simon Smith.

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