(lies, lies, lies, lies, lies...)
(lies, lies, lies, lies, lies...)
How does he do it? How do they do it? uncanny and immutable
This is such a happening tailpipe of a party
Like sugar, the guests are so refined
A confidence man, but why so beleaguered?
He's not a leader, he's a Texas leaguer
Swinging for the fence, got lucky with a strike
Drilling for fear makes the job simple
Born on third, thinks he got a triple
Blackout weaves its way through the city
Blackout weaves its way through the city
Blackout weaves its way...
I remember when you sang that song about today
Now it's tomorrow and everything has changed
A think tank of aloof multiplication
A nicotine wish and a Columbus decanter
Retrenchment and hoggishness
The aristocrat choir sings, "what's the ruckus?"
The haves have not a clue
The immenseness of suffering
And the odd negotiation, a rarity
With onionskin plausibility of life
And a keyboard reaffirmation
Blackout weaves its way through the city
Blackout weaves its way through the city
Blackout weaves its way...
I remember when you sang that song about today
Now it's tomorrow and everything has changed
I remember when you sang that song about today
Now it's tomorrow and everything has changed
Changed, changed, chains, etc...


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Bushleaguer [Album Version] Lyrics as written by Stone Gossard Eddie Vedder

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    I was at the concert at Nassau Coliseum where they threw batteries at the band after they played this song. I think it was in the PJ20 movie as well...I’m not a republican but sure as hell I ain’t no hypocritical crybaby Democrat, however if you even slightly know Eddie Vedder you then know how much of a bleeding heart liberal he is AND that on the new album of that time there was an anti Bush song so just assholes being assholes. But 15 years later, I hate to say, I get it, I get why they hurled those batteries at them, us NYers 1 year prior just went through 9/11 and still were grieving and panicking and lost and this fkn out of touch ultra lib comes spewing shit like that when we needed unity more then ever was like having the timing of a wet fart at a eulogy. It was classless and stupid and I’m glad a statement was made, hopefully that opened Vedder’s eyes, oh wait, nope, it didn’t, fast forward to 2019, they put “HERO” next to Christine Blasey Ford’s face on Twitter during the Kavanaugh trial, you know the one that was 110% horse-shit and disappeared directly after he got on, you know, cause most things just disappear like that when they true!! Stop. Just sing and stop talking. Eddie. Sing your fkn songs cause you are in fact great at that, and stop talking cause you are upside down like the rest of the left!! Trump is the president !! The fkn people have spoke, they said a hard NO to the world you want, to the world you think you want, Obama didn’t save it, nor will the next asshole, just sing and then enjoy your billions in silence !

    TomThumb681on March 03, 2020   Link

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