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Sick's Pack - Teeth

from Thrash Folk 2020 Remaster by Dr. Sick

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written in 30 minutes just days after the failure f the levee system in New Orleans Louisiana in the wake of Hurricane Katrina. from the perspective of a dead man floating down the street in sewage. typical feel good summer jam.

lyrics

how many bodies does it take to build a dam?
when the cops decide to count the heads they'll find out where I am
at the bottom of a city wishin I had made a plan
my home is gone, my heaven's out of reach

my buddies ain't breathin, and neither am I
my cousin's on the rooftop, she's too desperate to cry
she's only 17, with a newborn, and she don't wonder why
she knows somebody has been lyin through their teeth

I hope my baby mamma's sister gets my kid to Baton Rouge
I hope my baby doesn't see me floatin 'round on evenin news
hope the saints get here with time to spare,
cuz everyone just stops to stare
I doubt they're marchin anywhere
the delta's dug too deep

armageddon was allowed because they outlawed desire
when the dead come back to life again, we're comin from the myre
holdin picket signs and shoutin someone needs to get fired
somebody that's been lyin through their teeth

and I hope some sunburnt urbanite gets praised for throwin rocks
I hope this show gets overthrown by widows, thugs and cops
I hope we take the dead's advice,
dry our eyes with beans and rice
with every body dyin twice
a lifetime full of grief

O- wouldn't it be nice to have a swamp in every town
it wouldn't seem so shocking when your neighbors up and drowned
hand grenades and hurricanes soakin through the ground
well it ain't so far off for my belief
to think sombody has been lyin through their teeth

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from Thrash Folk 2020 Remaster, released April 11, 2014

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Dr. Sick New Orleans, Louisiana

Dr. Sick dislikes the concept of genre, and finds it limiting. He sings, plays 30 instruments and produces records. When there isn't a global pandemic, he tours as musical director of the Squirrel Nut Zippers.

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