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What the Frack
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Blasting the rocks underneath us with toxic chemical water to get more energy to raise the temperature of the earth some more instead of converting to renewables and conservation - what the frack?!
folk political satire
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Songs to afflict those who make everyone else uncomfortable.
Dave Lippman travels the world taking the air out of the windbags of the week, de-distorting history, and rewriting the classics with parody and thrust. He also presents the world's only known singing CEO, the Bard of the Bankers, Wild Bill Bailout, who employs anti-folk songs and interventionary anthems to explain (and enforce) that the business of America is none of your business, that those too big to fail are also too big for jail, and that the jobless and foreclosed must bail out their own boats.
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Peak #340
Peak in subgenre #99
Author
Dave Lippman
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October 29, 2012
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MP3 3.8 MB 160 kbps 3:18
Story behind the song
11 songwriters made an album about the nightmare of fracking - this is my effort at waking us up.
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Chorus: What the frack are they thinking What the frack have they been drinking Our water quality sinking What the frackety frack!? I don’t need their gasssss They can kiss my They want to shoot us up with chemicals I don’t mean to be polemical But shooting chemicals into rocks Is that really thinking outside the box? I know an easier way to get gas Eat beans and kiss my asterisk Footnote one: It would be more fun To get your power from the sun, son And we really have sinned by ignoring the wind And the waves And they’re frackin’ in Texas To get some of that frackin’ oil They’re determined to hex us It’s enough to bring your blood to a boil What the frack, we gotta foil This frackin freak show Cut the power to the fossil fuel clique ya know Cho: What the frack are they thinking What the frack have they been drinking Our water quality sinking What the frackety frack!? I don’t need their gasssss They can kiss my Farmers forced to fracking Aced out by agribiz When you’ve lost your job, you gotta get by Offered cash to trash your land and water What are you gonna try Six figures, that’s good roustabout pay How could they harbor any doubt you say But the job will last six months or less Then you’re back where you started, but you’re under duress They leave you in the lurch So when you go to church Speak up, speak out, don’t let ‘em run you out Poor people always been expendable When the water’s poison it’s not mendable Cho: What the frack are they thinking What the frack have they been drinking Our water quality sinking What the frackety frack!? I don’t need their gasssss They can kiss my… Footnote two: Natural gas is mainly methane Don’t sound so friendly, more like arsenic than champagne Your water will be so bad, polluted, sorry and sad Your tapwater catches fire? It’s a new stove, you should be glad We need energy independence From Exxon, Chevron & Shell, They need to move their offices On down to the county jail We’ve got shale shock, It’s a bridge fuel……to nowhere Cho: What the frack are they thinking What the frack have they been drinking Our water quality sinking What the frackety frack!? I don’t need their gasssss They can kiss my…
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