The Sound of the Crowd

Song Styles: With Rare Commentary

It’s almost my bedtime, because tomorrow I am going to get up bright and early to vote. And as I drive to and/or from my polling place, as I have in the last two elections, this is the song I’ll have in my tape deck:

All over you as they say

rumours or rivals yell at the strike force

are you aware you’re being illegal?

It’s making your savior behaviour look evil

Maximum big suprise your smile is something new

Pull my shirt off and pray

We’re coming up on re-election day

Maximum big suprise; she knows something new

I pull my shirt off and pray,

i’m saving myself to suffer the heatwave

Pull my shirt off and pray, we’re coming up on re-election day

Shouldn’t we ask him why?

–(excerpted from) Arcadia, “Election Day.”


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