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The Bubble Done Burst

from Shame a Politician by Eric Blowtorch

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Bobby Tanzilo: drums
Brian Wooldridge: bass

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Let’s take a trip in time down a thin yellow line
down Highway 1973
Let’s dive under the big bus shelter built by bloodsucking bats
without doors or seats for you and me

Anger grows, blood flows from the heart to the hand
to the pen to the paper, to the microphone stand
I’m coming ‘round at dawn to make my demand
Where do you stand? Where do you stand?

How is the national health?
How the hell is the national health supposed to be?
I hope you’ve no illusions about greed
It’s a big casino; hope it don’t come in between-o

It might prick the indignation, 700,000 homeless every night
and your government cuts you free at a frozen traffic light
It might fire the imagination: 100,000 children homeless every night

40 million American live with no insurance
The Fortune 500 are testing our endurance
Our unions powerless, workers misrepresented
Direct action by inertia and pride prevented

How long will the 500 stand as the first?
How long until mere water will not slake that thirst?
How long ‘til the poor rise up and pull a Patty Hearst?
The bubble done burst and we’re busted

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from Shame a Politician, track released August 1, 1990

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Eric Blowtorch Milwaukee, Wisconsin

Singer/guitarist/songwriter Eric Blowtorch sings, plays, and writes reggae, ska, rocksteady, soul, rock 'n' roll, funk, Latin, disco, hip-hop, Anglo-Afropop, and jazz songs with rhythm, melody, passion, and original comic timing. E. B. plays solo, in small combos, and with a band, Eric Blowtorch and the Bodyguards. ... more

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