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BREAD & CIRCUSES


Bread, Bread & Circuses
Bread, Bread & Circuses
Three-Rings right there to distract us
Pretzel-bread & Circuses

They say there’s a mold that grows on bread
It’ll put a circus inside of your head
In 26-hours you’ll be okay or
Balloon-popped by the DEA.

Bread, Bread & Circuses
Animal-cracker cage circuses

Firkins full of toxic swill
Fracking fluid up to the gills
Say it’s safe, if no one will
Raise liquid-bread to your p.r. skills

Bread, Bread & Circuses
Speckendick-bread circuses

Infotainment-surveillance complex
Halo footage at the IMAX
Talking-head sideshow freaks
Drones doing stunts over our cities

Bread, Bread & Circuses
Globe of Death circuses

BRIDGE:
When they distract us with Bread & Circuses
they've got us on the shelf
That provides you plenty of time
to think about yourself

Self-self and no one else
In the land of honey and MILFs
A PBJ sandwich,
Someday you’ll be President as well as rich

Bread Bread & Circuses
Dog & Pony Show circuses

Why did Rome die?
Was it decadence, my oh my?!
Or military ventures into the sky,
while there’s sewage on your pizza pie?

Bread Bread & Circuses
Circus Maximus circuses
Fall from the trapeze,
Gladiators cut you off at the knees


BRIDGE:
They distract us with Bread & Circuses
A strategy unto itself
It satisfied your shallow requirements
In lieu of something else

Banks pumpernickel-and-dime you
Covenants oppress you like panini
HMOs roll you like a matzo ball
All those clowns in a Super Bowl electric car commercial:
How many m.p.g.’s, huh?

Does jumping through flaming fire
suppress your animal ire?
Or do you eye Siegfried and Roy
sometimes as if they’re ham on rye?

Bread Bread & Circuses
Pig-in-a-blanket circuses
Sopaipilla Opera circuses
Impalement-arts circuses

Now hush up, you little hushpuppy, you!

credits

from (preview of upcoming release), track released March 21, 2015
Reverend Lead Pipe: Keyboards, vocals.
Hermann Hessian: Vocals.
Frederico Francisco Ingles: Guitars.


Produced and engineered by RLP.
Mastered at wavemod.com.

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