springfield
But enough is enough. Every day Jill and I listen to the NPR news at night, and the awfulness just deepens. Things are much worse than I had imagined they would be, and my imagination was pretty bad. I decided to channel some of my horror into music (yeah, I do that). So I got out my guitar and dusted it off and recorded springfield. Pretending to be a rock star once again!
The particular motivation for this one was the full-throated support of Trump given on some of the social media sites from friends I knew in high school who have become evangelical 'christians'. I am using the scare-quotes and lower-case "c" deliberately, because I simply cannot comprehend how anyone claiming to believe in Christ's teachings could support what Trump and his team are doing. I mean, heck, the man couldn't even touch the Bible when he was sworn in! Was he worried he would burst into flames? When he pretended to show how devout he was a few years ago, he held the Bible upside-down! Why aren't fundamentalist preachers having a field day with these obvious signs of Satan's influence? He's evil!
Ok, I'm being silly. And thinking that a goofy song can actually do anything in this world has its own accompanying cognitive dissonance. It certainly doesn't break any major musical ground: straightahead verse/chorus stuff (but a fun little synth solo!). Even if it reminds just one person of how MUCH Trump lies, though, I will feel I've accomplished something. I had great fun doing it, of course. Rock on!
Brad Garton
February, 2025
take everything you're thinking put it in a bowl shake it with your tiny hands "my policies!", you crow watch it very closely with your piggy eyes inside that bowl your policies are nothing but your lies transition: ------- you lie and lie and lie again and then you lie some more you are the prince of lies you are the antichrist ------- chorus: ------- where are all the dogs and cats from Springfield? are they someplace very far away? perhaps they hid themselves in mar-a-lago guarding secret documents all day! [may be they're in the oval office keeping elon musk at bay] ------- how tall is your tower? will tariffs make us glad? what about the ukraine? and W H O is bad? your cabinet is vile fake experts on parade they tell you you're the greatest the joke is truly made transition chorus [synth solo] sadly we must shoulder the burden of your hate the opposite of working to make our country great transition chorus final words at the end (purposefully hard to hear): children locked in cages families ripped apart wildfires and hurricanes climate change, yeah anti-vaccine madness the cost of insulin billionaire's round table Panama Canal no more medicaid mexico builds the wall invading greenland, ho! say good-bye to NATO Putin's not so bad kim jong un's just peachy Greenland no more taiwan aid don't publish any science until I have my say women have no choice stable, stable genius Canada. Uh huh US A I D I am a lovely man don't you love me? don't you love me? don't you love me? don't you love me?