Tag Archives: Lyrics

Kimya Dawson knows from where protest must burst: At the Seams.

Posted on December 29, 2017 by Eric Verlo

Kimya Dawson not only nailed the essence of protests for #BlackLivesMatter. She knew in which direction the protest marches needed to push. Toward our system’s seams. If you are having trouble finding the lyrics of her song about HANDS UP … Continue reading →

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CMA–Hillbilly Nobel Prize

Posted on November 1, 2016 by Brother Jonah

Or maybe not. I mean, Country Music isn’t definitively inferior to Rock or whatever. The vast majority of music doesn’t last one human lifetime, and a lot of what does survive really shouldn’t have. And I don’t hate southerners, or … Continue reading →

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Dubya Bush sings The Battle Hymn of the Republic like he’s dancing on John Brown’s grave.

Posted on July 14, 2016 by Eric Verlo

“He captured Harper’s Ferry with his nineteen men so true. He frightened old Virginia till she trembled through and through. They hung him for a traitor, they themselves the traitor crew. But his soul goes marching on! — Glory, glory, … Continue reading →

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Drop symbols of White Supremacy, but don’t embolden government supremacy

Posted on June 25, 2015 by Eric Verlo

SORRY, I DO HAVE A PROBLEM with government telling me how to think or telling me what I can’t say. Flags mean a lot to me and I CAN imagine MY flag being declared hateful or a public threat. How … Continue reading →

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Randy Newman dreams of a White President and a sarcasm-enabled internet

Posted on September 19, 2012 by Eric Verlo

“He won’t be the brightest, but he’ll be the whitest, and I’ll vote for that!” sings Randy Newman of his dream president, drawing the reaction he got when he penned “I’m a Redneck” or “Short People.” America needs a laugh … Continue reading →

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Everything’s up to date in Kansas City

Posted on July 28, 2012 by Eric Verlo

Yep– They’ve gone about as far as they can go. Broadway’s otherwise obsolete lyrics about civilization’s western edge might be true again! Kansas City will now have 1-Gig/second internet access. One hundred times faster than yours. It’s a new project … Continue reading →

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Here’s to the ladies who lunch – everybody laugh

Posted on April 28, 2012 by Eric Verlo

“Ladies Who Lunch” used to mean the idle spouses of financially successful husbands, as one New Yorker cartoonist fondly dubbed them, his Grand Dames, until Broadway in the mid-seventies where Stephen Sondheim subverted the idiom for Elaine Stritch’s COMPANY showstopper … Continue reading →

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A song about building the American Dream, railroads, towers, war, then being tossed aside to beg for change

Posted on January 3, 2012 by NMT

Most Americans know the lyrics of this depression-era song. Now they know what it was about. They used to tell me I was building a dream, and so I followed the mob, When there was earth to plow, or … Continue reading →

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Love is the Reason, with grammatical advice, from A Tree Grows in Brooklyn

Posted on August 30, 2011 by Eric Verlo

I once saw a British TV spot for Hamlet Cigars which featured an oddball posing in a photo booth, but so endearingly. For years on, when asked to smile, I affected his toothy grimace, thinking my rendition channeled but transcended … Continue reading →

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So, I’m calling Shenanigans.

Posted on August 25, 2011 by Brother Jonah

There’s a Bumper sticker out that says “My ancestors immigrated LEGALLY.” Horse Shit. The only way that would be true is if Might Makes Right were an actual legal concept. The German takeover of Europe in the 30s and early … Continue reading →

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LongmontCitizens– Joe Hill Festival with John McCutcheon and Elena Klaver

Posted on August 17, 2011 by Brother Jonah

Joe Hill was a folk singer, on par with Pete Seeger and Woody Guthrie, and an IWW organizer. He was framed for murder, a murder proven to be committed by another man. And executed by Judicial Lynching firing squad in … Continue reading →

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Slavoj Zizek Not Gaga for Pop

Posted on July 7, 2011 by Eric Verlo

Slovenian philosopher Slovaj Zizek has a cult following like Lady Gaga, but denied this weekend any romantic connection. I write this with tongue in cheek, Slavoj’s, because of his comic protestations. Zizek was cajoled by Amy Goodman at Saturday’s London … Continue reading →

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For people who hate opera

Posted on April 22, 2011 by Eric Verlo

The trouble with introductory collections like “Opera for People Who Hate Opera” is of course that it’s still OPERA. I’m inclined to believe the gateway acquired-taste for American pop music ears is –why not– American Musical Theater. But before I … Continue reading →

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Brits on Kenya: “Oopsies!!”

Posted on April 7, 2011 by Brother Jonah

Turns out that the common knowledge of the past 50+ years was right, the American backed British colonial government was, despite American and British denials, murdering, torturing and “disappearing” people, just like they did in every other nation where they … Continue reading →

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So Apparently Mrs Palin really isn’t a hunter…

Posted on March 26, 2011 by Brother Jonah

Meaning that she LIED about being Momma Grizzly as easily as she lied about being a “fiscal conservative”. The root word in “conservative” is “conserve” and the reason her being a liar is so relevant is that she’ll be HERE … Continue reading →

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Love me I’m a Liberal – Phil Ochs

Posted on January 8, 2011 by NMT

“In every American community you have varying degrees of shadiness. One of the shadiest of these is the Liberals. Ten degrees to the left of center in good times, Ten degrees to the right of center if it affects them … Continue reading →

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John B. Spencer’s lost Christmas lyric for Will Your House Be Blessed?

Posted on January 1, 2011 by Eric Verlo

Gathering songs for a Christmas compilation, I went looking through different versions of “Will This House be Blessed?” by John B. Spencer. While the forgiveness spirit is in keeping with the season, everyone else’s cover lacked whatever it was I … Continue reading →

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Your father’s Lili Marlene, specifically

Posted on December 31, 2010 by Eric Verlo

On the subject of historical misconceptions, you might say I’m hugely sentimental. So the tale of Lili Marlene catches me up like a honey trap. What does the name conjure for you? A Nazi Mata Hari? A fictional musical persona … Continue reading →

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Composer Jason Robert Brown wants to protect his unintellectual rights

Posted on July 5, 2010 by Eric Verlo

As a musician and fan of stage musicals, I must proffer this disclaimer about American theater composer Jason Robert Brown: he’s terrible. Brown is a poster child for the music industry’s common mediocrity, of commerce’s habitual triumph over art. Now … Continue reading →

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Americans upset by viral Single Ladies video don’t know their ass from TandA

Posted on May 17, 2010 by Eric Verlo

You thought ours was an oversexed culture obsessed with youth, but the recent furor over a viral video shows Americans don’t know their ass from their T & A. Obviously everyone is aghast about too-young dancers gyrating to Beyonce’s … Continue reading →

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Originally it was Antiwar Mother’s Day

Posted on May 9, 2010 by Eric Verlo

For how many war years longer will a MOTHER’S DAY tradition be to remind the vast Hallmark-washed that Mom’s postbellum holiday originated as a grassroots resistance by mothers opposed to enlisting their sons in war? Quoth abolitionist/pacifist/feminist/poet Julia Ward Howe … Continue reading →

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Owl City writes lyrics most foul, shitty

Posted on October 25, 2009 by Eric Verlo

That’s it, I’ve hit my generation gap with new music. Jonas Brothers I could abide, and Hannah, Britney, Hanson and the boy bands, because pop is fun. But holy mother of god Owl City’s lyrics are AWFUL. Generations older than … Continue reading →

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Singing a song of angry men

Posted on April 21, 2009 by Eric Verlo

Do you hear the people sing, singing a song of angry men? It is the music of a people who will not be slaves again. When the beating of your heart echoes the beating of the drums, There is a … Continue reading →

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Ludlow Massacre or unhappy incident?

Posted on April 11, 2009 by Eric Verlo

COLORADO COLLEGE- CC is holding a symposium on the 1914 Ludlow Massacre. Actually, it’s only called the Ludlow Symposium. True to Colorado Springs form, several among the audience want to call it an “incidence,” instead of a “massacre.” One of … Continue reading →

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The Communist Internationale, the new version of classic music hit

Posted on September 3, 2008 by Tony Logan

Maxx Klaxon has an updated version of the old musical hit, The Communist Internationale, out. Internationale 2000 Of course, there are many of you out there …lol… that have never heard the original hit version, so check the now out-of-date … Continue reading →

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