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Criminalized
02:06
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CRIMINALIZED
by T. Bolema
© Beefbone Music 2007
They hire him.
They fire him
Turn his family out.
In a critical mass
there goes the nest
and the national trust:
minimalized.
He works hard.
He dies hard
poisoned by the
waste of his labors.
Some people just don't get
what it takes to make the team:
marginalized.
The stakes are
so high now
he won't lay odds
on himself no more.
In a critical mass
there goes the rest
of the national trust:
criminalized.
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THANK YOU KARL MARX
c 2007 Bolema
Thank you Karl Marx
for explaining why I will always be poor.
Grandpa’s dreams would have no steam
had you not exposed the scheme.
Thank you Karl Marx
for describing a context critical of war.
Our mothers’ milk will seldom spill
once fathers forbid sons to kill.
From each according to their ability,
to each according to their need.
Thank you Karl Marx
for clarifying why I feel alienated.
You made the case to free
the human race from usury.
From each according to their ability,
to each according to their need.
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All They Hear
02:42
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ALL THEY HEAR
c Beefbone Music 2006
People simply everywhere
with their ear to the ground.
All they hear is thunder
or distant diesel sounds.
Edison is sinking
obsolete in nines.
Acolytes are linking
Palestine on line.
The sarcophagus wails
eloquently if not wise.
Pity on the devils
whole profit in disguise.
People simply everywhere
with their eye to the skies.
All they see they first hear
blinding, crippling lies.
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Missing Mom
03:11
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Missing Mom
C 2007 Beefbone Music
She sleeps all day. That night job’s too much.
Time slips away as I picture her with me on the bus.
I just wanna play, but the teachers have great expectations.
What did I do? Don’t forget how innocent I am.
And all the bad things feel so far away.
Once she had fun, and made sure all my dreams came true.
Now I dream alone, and I’m not sure I’m ready to
hate Dad like she does, though I understand it sometimes.
Born of love, and how did that get undermined?
And all the good things seem so far away.
As she gets old my respect for her will grow.
When Dad’s gone, she will be all I have left.
So I chip away, down the coal mine to my toes,
hoping to hit that vein of all-out happiness.
And all the bad things feel so far away.
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PLANTATION PLANET
c Beefbone Music 2007
Walking the rails of the apocalypse express.
I want to slow her down but the churning wheel won't rest.
Only I can satisfy Dick's insatiable thirst.
And baby, we might win a trip if I come in first.
On the Plantation Planet I'm growing so weary.
I wanna slow her down and forego the enquiry.
My outstanding debt is my economic theory,
from the shores of the Mojave to the dustbowl of Lake Erie.
Pimping the ride with fantasies of fame.
I have absolutely no shame.
Leadbelly is deader than the deadest dread can get.
Yes, the forecast is for pain on the apocalypse express.
On the Plantation Planet the servants run the gamut.
Work is play, war is peace, and don't forget, goddamn it.
There's nothing more to argue, just drink the lite somatic.
Enjoy the sensation of the Plantation Planet.
On the Plantation Planet I'm growing so weary.
Work is play, war is peace, and don't forget enquiry.
My outstanding debt is my economic theory,
from the shores of the Mojave to the dustbowl of Lake Erie.
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Green Party Blues
02:13
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Green Party Blues
c Bolema 2007
Hey all you haters I got a party for you
Its mission is green but its heart is blue
Because as they like it there's room for all fools
The days are so grey with those Green Party blues.
They voted me in to manage the float
Then ripped off my power to rep and to vote
Changing the rules to balance the mean
Their motives are true but their mood is not green
Suffering those Green Party blues
Deep down I'm knowing I got everything to lose
Whether sweating at Fresno or on Avenue K
Or found in a fog at Bodega Bay
A meeting at Pico, arrest in Marin
The militant martyr has nothing to win
Suffering those Green Party blues
Deep down I'm knowing I got everything to lose
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Haywire Moon
02:37
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HAYWIRE MOON
c 1983 T. Bolema
When I found you all alone, hard times behind you I
put you on a throne, to be on my own beside you.
Now to convince her the good times are here.
He's gone along with his drinking.
Darling I love you, I’ll always be near.
Come back to bed and stop thinking.
Haywire moon, won't you release her
please from this gloom?
Release her before you defeat her.
When the doctor says "yes" it's a positive test I just
hope she can rest, knowing that soon there'll be three of us.
How to convince her the good times are here.
The garden she planted is dying.
Darling I love you, I'll always be near.
Gaze at the moon and stop crying.
Haywire moon won't you release her
please from this gloom?
Release her before you defeat her.
Now to convince her the good times are here.
She only smiles for pictures.
Come back to bed and start dreaming my dear.
That haywire moon is a fixture.
Don’ let it get to you.
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OpressRepressSuppressDepress
Bolema 2007
Transcend your dry and frizzy hair.
Everything works together from A to Z.
It eats like steak, cuts like butter.
Let’s see how this bruise looks in HD.
Oppress! Repress! Suppress! Depress.
That’s what we are made of. Are you sleeping?
Utopia is within reach.
What does your home know that you don’t?
Multi-tasking doubles the risk of accident.
Oppress! Repress! Suppress! Depress.
Don’t expect the executioner
to drop the proper punishment.
Memories of his mother’s mastectomy.
Just the thing to enhance your trance.
Oppress! Repress! Suppress! Depress.
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Beefbone was schooled in Detroit in the seventies. In Los Angeles, fronted The Butchers throughout the eighties/nineties. Indie pioneer with NotOwn Records since 1984. Recorded seminal hit "Justiceville" with Ice T. Ran for California State Assembly 2002. Teaches prison inmates in the SF Bay area. ... more
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