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Why Are We Gonna Die?

from Just Another Generation by The Shut-Ups

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Don says:

Read between the lines on my face.

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Something isn’t right (Why? I don’t know)
Keeps me up at night (Why? I don’t know)
It’s blowin’ in the dust we bite
I asked my representative, but she’s been playing dumb
She formed a committee to sit on her thumb
WHY ARE WE GONNA DIE?

I don’t care where all the lonely people come from
And why they call the blues “the blues”
And how they’re gonna do it if they really don’t want to dance
And where was the beef? There was never any beef to lose!

Some people care who let the doggies out
But I’m like “whatchoo talkin’ bout?
Stop shouting. This is no concern of mine.
Am I my neighbor’s doggies’ keeper?
Don’t you oysters hear the reaper?
He’s asking may he help who’s next in line.”

I don’t know where we even get the will to rock
Beating time til we’re beaten by the clock

Something isn’t right
Keeps me up at night
It’s blowin’ in the dust we bite
Call up Mr. FBI and put him on the case.
Tell him to read between the lines on my face:
WHY ARE WE GONNA DIE?

I don’t want to know if you want to know what love is
And what it’s got to do with the power of itself
And why fools fall in it and how deep it leaves me tender
And who’s bending down to give me a rainbow.

Did the Bee Gees know they were talkin’ jive?
They weren’t that good at stayin’ alive.
Who blew the wind? And what’s the nine-one-one?
Yes, and how many roads can a man walk down
‘til you take him to Funkytown
Are you glad to see him or is that a gun?
Or both?!?!

What’s on the radio? Wimps! Pimps! Sluts!
And evidently someone really likes big butts.

Something isn’t right
Keeps me up at night
It’s blowin’ in the dust we bite
Tell me, Mr. FBI
And Mrs. CIA
If you have to kill me, I’m dead anyway.
WHY ARE WE GONNA DIE?

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from Just Another Generation, released February 23, 2018

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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.

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