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Whiskey Tango Foxtrot

from Pax Volumi by Youngblood Brass Band

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lyrics

o sea, can you say ‘die by brawn’s surly might?’

on the grid / got a government contract to overcharge: no bid / less and less of us living large: no shit / a lesson plan about cutting art: blow kiss / I love the way you say it’s for the kids / quote this: I love the way you make it fully legit because you got a television bully pulpit / what did the pope say? Jesus never asked a leper for a co-pay / one for the money / two for the money / are you a senator? you for the money / we lose all the money / the truth or the money / the youth are the money / we stupid for money / is it clear enough? ‘yeah, but it ain’t weird enough’ / yayayayayayayayaboo / fixed / I love cynical, senseless, selfish tricks / now it sounds like America / sick!

let’s bow our heads and pray our teachers don’t get raises
let’s pray our children get degrees that cost what spaceships do
america you’re so cool

all for more
bravado the
chart leads to the
delta
echoing across the
gulf a
hotel
in diaspora’s best slum where
Juliet runs drugs by the
kilo
leave the mic alone
no embers
or scars give me the flame but no plot
whiskey tango foxtrot

America, why the long face? so we broke our vows / so failure tagged us it / the mortal pang in Stanley Kunitz’s flaming wheel of bones / you made us run amok / you made us grab the largest pieces of metal and froth and clang / so what good is lyric, Orpheus / what good the nail? what notes now?

get off of it / I admit: I’m a bit unruly / ignore U.N. rulings when a country will sue me / here’s a cheerleader secret for you pompon heads: ‘is that a riot’ is just something that my mom says / ‘oh shit, Judy!’ signed ‘yours, truly’ / newsflash: you can’t cover your chemo? move fast to where they care about people / for real though I love all the music we make / I love the beautiful states / I love hip-hop and rock / I love the usual things / I love my black tube socks / I love drumline, drum corps, drum trolls, drum war, drum rolls, drum lore, kids that want to drum more / Shadow on my wrist / battle EQ with a fist like jujujujujujujujuju gock / it doesn’t matter if we kill their dreams our most beaten-down always go and steal the scene, so:

let’s bow our heads and pray the poor will keep enlisting
let’s pray we’re sending them to war to fight for CEOs
america I thought we were bros

hit up a
Quebecois hospital when in
Rome explode
see no error a
unified form poorly fitted to the
victor goes the gilded cow an
ex-marine denied pension all chains
yanked for your service
you lose. hit me:
whiskey tango foxtrot

America, no one can beat you in gun crime / no one can touch you in musical revolutions / but your kids aren’t that bright, and they eat like shit / you made our hearts’ cadence wed the off- and back-beat so that their swaying hips wouldn’t arouse suspicion farther north / you created colloquialisms that mean the opposite of their literal definition and then made that policy an international platform / an exchange for merit / a bartering professional / a charm offensive / and a hearse for every ode / America, our concertmaster, you must conduct yourself from that gloriously out-of-tune piano / the soloist is stoned / Othar Turner says ‘heap see, but mighty few know.’ / while the world makes flesh of flesh we etch our names in gold / we fetch our flaming bones

let’s bow our heads and pray that science is a put on
let’s pray clarity of thought a passing fad / America who’s your dad
let’s bow our heads and pray we privatize the whole thing
if you want your mail delivered now you’re going to have to pay
let’s make this shit a feudal estate
let’s bow our heads
let’s bow our heads and say a prayer tonight
my cool america
I’m still in love with you

o sea, can you say ‘die by brawn’s surly might?’

credits

from Pax Volumi, released September 1, 2013
by David Henzie-Skogen, Joe Goltz, Matt Hanzelka, Nat McIntosh, and Charley Wagner (Layered Music - SESAC)

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Original riot jazz crew, wrecking stages everywhere all the time since 1997. New EP 'Pax Instrumentals’ out now. Members are available for online lessons, commissions, arrangements, and custom studio work as well. Thanks for listening.

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