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usonian

(21,746 posts)
Thu Oct 16, 2025, 01:55 PM Thursday

Is this the counterpart to 60's CIvil Rights songs?

Not your 60's Civil Rights music, but what the heck.
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Every day sees higher prices
Every day another crisis
Unhinged episodes combine (2)
Each more violent and obscene
To take the spotlight
— off Epstein

Everything that he accuses
is a thing that he abuses
It’s a place where he has gone
Like a shabby Mafia Don

Any One his outrage sways
Is a person he betrays
Words are just synthetic(1) honey, to
Drain your honor and your money

He claims he’s for America First
That’s a lie that’s just the worst
Billions for his foreign debt
We get zilch
— He gets a jet

Epstein, Epstein, king of blackmail
Conveniently, he died in jail
Victims aren’t free, (or) they’d he saying
The name of him that
— they’re still paying

Desperate to protect himself
He wants those files upon a shelf
Never ever to be seen
To protect the King and Queen


(1) or Grok-made, or duck-speak
(2) So Epstein is pronounced eps-teen?. I never knew him.

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Is this the counterpart to 60's CIvil Rights songs? (Original Post) usonian Thursday OP
ya' want real songs? ret5hd Thursday #1
Those are great! I never learned guitar. usonian Thursday #2
Hurray For The Riff Raff... ret5hd Thursday #3
What's the tune? nt Ilsa Thursday #4
That's what I'm asking for! usonian Thursday #5

usonian

(21,746 posts)
2. Those are great! I never learned guitar.
Thu Oct 16, 2025, 02:24 PM
Thursday

I got 8 beats per measure.

I previously catalogued some with 6, harder to find, but these lyrics appeared to me by "divine" inspiration (or other) 😈

ret5hd

(21,876 posts)
3. Hurray For The Riff Raff...
Thu Oct 16, 2025, 02:34 PM
Thursday

one of the most haunting lines i’ve heard:

I used to think I was born into the wrong generation
But now I know I made it right on time
To watch the world burn
To watch the world burn
To watch the world burn
With a tear in my eye

usonian

(21,746 posts)
5. That's what I'm asking for!
Thu Oct 16, 2025, 08:53 PM
Thursday

Lyrics started coming to me, so I wrote the words down late at night.

I had an 8 beat general idea based on some Tchaikovsky (copyright free of course) but only as a get-started idea.

Asked musicians.

https://www.democraticunderground.com/10357783

It's wide open. Know any?

8 beats is easy compared to an earlier search for 6.

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