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Welfare Band

from Rwanda Machete by Lucky Dioxide

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about

Welfare Band questions the legitimacy of non-essential social programs. Specifically, government funded grants paid for by the tax payer and given to upper middle class rock star wannabes. The song Welfare band is an assertion that it is unethical to make the working masses subsidize the indulgence of a pretentious few in an economic climate of austerity. Especially when a government is unable to provide adequate healthcare, education and maintain infrastructure.

lyrics

It’s 10 P.M. Do you know where your children are? And what your government is doing?

Slam! 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8

I wanna play in a welfare band. I wanna take grant money from your government. We need to subsidize our lack of musicianship. We need to subsidize our lack of originality. I want to be a rock star at tax payer expense cuz we can’t make it out there on our own.

Long live the welfare band. Taking public resources and wasting them. So suburban kids can play rock star at your expense. How does that make you feel Joe Tax payer? Angry!

Give me my welfare handout!
Major labels won’t touch us with a ten foot pole cuz they know how much we suck. So we make up a little fake prefab image. Cuz our fake prefab image is all that we got. We don’t want to get a job and
earn it ourselves. We don’t want to work for it at all.

God bless the welfare band. It’s a financial burden to the working man. It’s just another bankrupting social program. We got a second rate education system. We got a crumbling infrastructure in decay. We got homeless people starving on the streets but that’s O.K to give it away.

Give our money to the rich kids who don’t need the money at all. That’s our western style democracy to subsidize plutocracy. Doesn’t it just make you sick? Makes me puke.

Slam!

Hey moron! You might as well buy our stupid CD’s. You’ve already paid for it in spades. Long live the welfare band. Yeah! Doesn’t it make you feel real good inside to know that your government.....They know how to spend your money wisely on welfare bands. Taxes well spent (repeat x3). God bless the welfare state.

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from Rwanda Machete, released November 16, 2015
All instruments and arrangements performed by Lucky Dioxide

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