Popsongs Lyrics

Subject: c/citizen_fish/popsongs.tab
Date: Mon, 22 Jun 1998 15:08:51 EST
Popsongs- Citizen Fish (from the album Thirst)
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Chords fer the verse:
Verse Bit in ska rhythm (upstrummed chords... you know- it's a piece of
piss)
You'll never make the charts if you sing about repression
Because pretending to be in control is a national obsession
Even when the self control is let loose as agression
"Oh, you know, he doesn't mean it man, it's his natural expression"
Interludy bit betwixt verse 1 and 2
"It's his natural expression"
Some say the constant hammering is following a beat
And popsongs heard to pass the time will break up the routine
Chorus: (power chords)
In some hazy day pre-radio, you hear the hammers sing
Now they shout above the popsongs, go unnoticed and give in
Go unnoticed and give in
Claims to break up the routine- becomes a part of it
But no signs of improvement in the way the hammers hit
You see the way the workers act when the chains relax a bit
It indicates their mental state as happy clean and fit
Interlude bit again
A bunch of B majors some ska, then some not.... and stuff
Chorus bit again
After day long happy tunes it's prime reaction time
Blob out horizontal to the spectacle sublime
Replacing conversation space with pleasantries that rhyme
"Have a good weekend folks just make sure you're back by 9"
Just make sure you're back by 9
So when the batteries went flat and the DJ went off air
The atmosphere in the factory made everyone aware
Chorus again
They'd been replacing conversation space with dependency on sound
So when the popsongs came back on, they turned the whole thing down
So when the popsongs came back on, they turned the whole thing down