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It's the Law

from Imaginary Dancer by The Shut-Ups

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A dystopian tale of a society in which partying has become the New World Order and unrepentant violators are summarily executed.

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I get back from work
The door is open
DJ scratchin my Bee Gees records
There’s boozy bimbos
Hungry hippies
And a dancing doofus
He’s shouting something:

It’s the law:
You have to party.
Don’t you know it’s the law?

They refuse to leave
So I call the sheriff
She arrives
With rope and handcuffs
She ties me down
And joins the party
I try to protest
She just says:

It’s the law:
You have to party.
Don’t you know it’s the law?

I express some doubt
So I’m sent to prison
Vicious killers
They won’t come near me
They seem to feel that
I’ve crossed a boundary
I’m quite the scandal
I hear them whisper:

It’s the law:
You have to party
You know it’s the law.

Hello, Electric Chair
It’s you and me now
If I were sorry,
They’d show me mercy
But a man don’t like
What a man don’t like
And I don’t like parties
So let me die!
So let me die!

It’s the law:
You have to party!
Let me die, let me die, let me die!

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from Imaginary Dancer, released January 1, 2009

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We're a five-piece new-wave power-pop band from Atlanta and Athens, GA and practice daily at 6AM. We do more before 8AM than most bands do all week.

We're not about Pleasure or Fun. You may enjoy listening to us. You may not. You may pretend to enjoy us because others you respect seem to. They may be pretending, too. In which case you may want to consider what else they're pretending about. ... more

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