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Hunting Season

by Tom Jessen

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1.
Pepper Spray 03:36
I saw the crowds, I saw them shouting them down. Chanting "shame on you, shame on you!" Cops had hands on night sticks with nervous looks behind plastic facing an army of cell phone camera crews It makes you want to curse, setting off vibrations in the universe with a shock wave slapping the stupid senseless But I've got a paralysis of heart, hesitating to jump start under the weight of it all seeming useless Pepper Spray from a top down "OK" Just give the word and this embarrassment will go away It's a goddamn election year, the media will jump on this like a horsefly on a steer and I need it gone! The cops traded in their blues and their citation pads for training in military tactics, swat teams and battering rams tell them their fighting a war, fit them with military drag and they'll raid your house, shoot your dog, and bust you for a dime bag Now it's force first, 'cause there's no consequences for using it they'll taser you to comply and arrest you for dissent when the public gets violent everybody says they were out of their minds when the state gets violent we accept it as justified Pepper Spray from a top down "OK" just give the word and this embarrassment will go away If you build it they will come gives our constituents jobs and it gives cops M16 guns Will you comply? Will you comply? You have the freedom to do as we tell you
2.
Pump Pump 03:22
Well I know it's late and you might be tired But you gotta come over and watch us light the water on fire Damnedest thing, it does it every time the water burns better than gasoline We all watched we they drilled a big hole in the ground they took the water up top and shot a shitload of it on down and just for that they gave us a huge pile of cash but we've gone through all of it on veterinarian and medical bills Don't know what we're gonna do now can't sell this land, can't sell this house yeah the suits sing, pump pump, quake quake Just think of all the money that we're going to make Pump Pump, quake quake Just think of all the money that we're going to make It's going to create jobs that's their usually answer they give you the job and the water gives you cancer and a study paid for by the industry claims everything is safe as safe as far as they can see You got no money you got no voice while black briefcases grease those DC boys Pump Pump, quake quake just think of all the money that we're going to make Drill baby drill, drill baby drill there's gold just sitting there in the shale
3.
They just can't see it approaching the precipice burying the needle like they know the address top down with a megaphone they're so sure this road is leading us toward the horizon They're waving the flag and laying on the horn dodging potholes throughout this consumer wasteland Keep burying those spent rods in the ground until the plate shifts and causes the effects we see now engorged smokestacks seeding the sky while evacuating waste in a river going by From the sky the cities look like growing malignancies It's coming around what goes around it's going to take us all out at the knees Can't sustain much longer, the gilded and the squalor like rolling bubbles of mercury consolidating into a ruling entity now the money's got the wheel and we're all looking at each other not believing that this is real the parts are snapping off under the speed what was once crucial pieces are now just debris How'd you expect anything more thinking freedom was at the store packaged under the guise of need at what cultural cost do we put our faith in exponentially growing technology Yeah they just can't see it approaching the precipice burying the needle like they know the address Yeah they just can't see it
4.
Dignity 02:44
You got my prayers and my blessings too that is until you're born after that, it's sayonara adios kid, you're on your own Well were very concerned in the first, second and third like the church tells us we should be you got the right to life, just not the right to live with some pride and dignity You can pursue happiness all you want but nobody owes you a dime well I know you were dealt with a shitty hand but please tell me how that problem is mine Well we love to talk just don't make us walk the walk I'd really hate to give up all my stuff we import all our views and neglect beatitudes but isn't going to church on Sunday enough? Where's your protection now as our kids step out on foreign ground getting blown away for corporate gain? They got ripped from their homes while young and barely formed now the dignity of human life in a body bag
5.
The spill killed everything in the ocean people don't go on vacation there no more all the locals lost their jobs but picked up work cleaning up their own shores cut to a suit occupied on a cell phone he presents a finger to someone who wants a word he saying something about damage control and how to spin it to come out clean afterward Why are we still waiting to see how this ends demoralizing how it happens again and again be prepared when you flip to the last page that narrative's bound to fill you with rage They buried PCBs right over there in that field and then dropped it in the water and poisoned the creek they paid off the victims to make them go away when it's a fraction of the profits they'll make in a week you get dizzy if you stare at that revolving door they come out get a job and are sent right back in favors and cash for the government whores people lose, Monsanto wins They take your pension and your 401k tell you you can make money from money an easy way they just shrug after gambling it all away while getting millions in bonuses on top of a raise authority does nothing but placate we get a dose of strong rhetoric and compromised spines keep waiting for the masses to find their legs and wield pitchforks and torches and take out this frankenstein
6.
Some dude shot a kid on a skating rink as he was gliding across the ice Left a big pool of red on the white now they think the kid's going to be paralyzed Nowhere left it can't happen Nowhere now they won't go Nobody knows why but they're saying it was over a coat This kind of thing happens every day here late one night a 19 year old black girl had a car accident in an all white neighborhood She got out of the car disoriented her forehead sprung little rivers of blood Cell phone was dead, she wandered up to a house, knocked on the door white man inside shot her in the face because he thought she was a burglar This kind of thing happens every day here Couple of weeks and it will all be gone then another thing demands your fleeting attention couple of weeks and it will all be gone Then it's another headline, another gun 12 year old found a 9mm above the fridge and brought it to school an hour and a half later a teacher who made it through Afghanistan lay in a bloody pool in another story I saw a 14 year old shot his 17 year old sister later came out he did because when she was doing the laundry she bleached his shirts This kind of thing happens every day here Couple out for a rare date night in a movie theater they rearranged their schedule and got the 2 year old a baby sitter retired police chief sat behind them annoyed eventually got enraged texting during the previews now apparently gets you blown away this kind of thing happens every day here
7.
Look At Me 03:41
Look at me, Look at me please comment on what you see what you see, what you see but only say the good things please snap a photo, post it up look past the way that it all corrupts would you do that if I was standing there? what would you read from my face? would you say those things if you saw them hit my ears? or would you hide behind the wall of cyberspace? Everybody's voice like white noise it made everybody a star it made you think you're important but even big brother doesn't care who are Privacy lost it's luxury thrown away on some sad latent need
8.
Bootstraps 03:27
White folks slinging slurs from their lips they can't figure out what the hell these peoples problem is they say they're just lazy, violent and they're all on crack why can't they pull themselves up by the bootstraps hard when your second hand shoes are blown out start in a hole with no way to get out Ain't got no daddy to give them a job ain't got no connections from a country club schools are all closing in the neighborhood got passed over on a raffle to attend the ones that are good watching from the outside everybody living their life start in the dark with no lantern to light They keep driving this belief that cannot yield while tearing up the grass on their equal playing field the game is rigged and the players have been picked to the point where effort is benched and seems almost pointless Maybe there's a reason, maybe there's a cause at least a quiet understanding that might give you pause you can bounce around your box, affirm your beliefs when there's wide open spaces seen from the streets put on your shoes and catch a different kind of scene you might just appreciate something that you see They keep driving this belief that cannot yield while tearing up the grass on their equal playing field the game is rigged and the players have been picked to the point where effort is spent and seems almost pointless White folks slinging slurs from their lips they can't figure out what the hell these peoples problem is They live on food stamps I pay for from my federal tax why can't they pull themselves up by the bootstraps I've earned everything that's come to me give 'em an inch and we'll end up the minority
9.
Thank you all for coming I'll now take few questions Well I think it's important to say it's imperative some rules be put into place if not you're going to quickly see this whole thing plunge into chaos and mayhem well the killing should be done in a manner that's fair I think everyone here will agree We'd rather not think of this as violence but more along the line of a duty as they say, "killing them softly" Well I suppose you are taking away everything they are and will be but let's be clear this should be done humanely we can't have inappropriate means introduced in this killing spree we're not monsters we're Christians defending democracy It's unfair to wear an enemy's uniform it's confusing knowing who to take out biological warfare is strictly forbidding but feel free to use nukes throughout Well we ask you to adhere to the various rules because failure to comply may lead to harsh penalization and a possible fair trial of course, we'll excuse ourselves
10.
Eye Opener 04:09
Time will pepper you with punches and knock the lies right out of you leaving the canvas riddled with the myths of the green they'll have to carry you from the ring with your feet dragging knowing you can't speak of what you've seen They have an instinct of what you'll say so they turn and look away like something else caught their attention with a desperate faith they try and prop it up in its place these Rube Goldberg conventions Why would you question the route stuffed between walls of shoots like bovine shuffling in line you might take the time to consider even though the pills bitter the spot on your vision that's blind I got no solution but to know it's a delusion hope being just the great wishful lie it's some scary dark shit confronting only the present with dead batteries in your flashlight And I don't know what to feel after the last myth falls when there's fuck-all behind it to fall back on now I'm out on the skirts wondering what's worse you can starve on the food of solitude dismantle the bad as well as the good try balance on thin air or what's really there then wave and kiss yourself goodbye
11.
Blowback 02:50
we want you to have the freedom to choose your own way as long as it looks exactly like the American way we'll prop up a puppet we'll make sure we choose the best man For support he'll gladly welcome us to take the natural resources from your hand today our ally tomorrow we'll see just depends on how the Dow Jones runs we'll help you shock and awe your economy and assist in crushing dissent when it comes it's our mission to spread democracy but it helps if you have something we need if you don't you're shit out of luck we can't get wrapped up in your atrocities Be prepared for attack blowback
12.
It's putting food on someone's table proudly made in the USA put to use in other countries producing our enemies straightaway not much in the way of detective work stenciled right there on the casing when you don't know who dropped it in your dirt you're gonna blame the guy who made it Mental concussive blast dirty bombs from the chest looking to take out their rage made in the USA Their labor takes out someone's daughter it pays for theirs to go to school they don't think about what it's for throwing away their earnings on the football pool assembly lines produce resentments factories sowing revenge and rage as long as they keep making them it secures the reason for why their made silent drones float in other countries behind clouds in the sky some pilot in California on the handles dismembers kids and widows the wives they want to call it incidental it's just a shrug from the brass then they look on dumbfounded when they see them burning effigies and American flags they want to escalate the effort wipe 'em out to the core for every one combatant killed it creates four more
13.

credits

released July 27, 2015

TJ - Vocals, guitar, various keyboards, some percussion
Randall Davis - guitars
John Svec - bass
Jim Viner - drums, percussion
Brook Hoover - lead guitar on "Bootstraps"
Brian Cooper - drums on "Pump Pump" and "Look At Me"
Eric Griffin - drums on "USA" and percussion throughout
Eric Straumanis - guitar and bass on "USA"
David Zollo - organ on "Just Can't See It"

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