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Gig Economy
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They got this thing they call the gig economy
But it was used until the 19th century
You get to bid on every single job
Compete for the gig with the whole entire mob
But it’s much better now they put in on an app
Completions more fierce and that’s just how they like it
Gig economy, Gig economy
Pre-industrial Gig economy
Gig economy, Gig economy
It was supposed to be built with flexibility
But that’s just how they traded their responsibilities
Left no protection now for your human frailties’
For Decades now you see profits going up
But in the same timeframe wages in a rut
You get to work for 16 hours a day
At the end of 61 you’ll horrified by the pay
Gig economy, Gig economy
Pre-industrial Gig economy
Gig economy, Gig economy
There’s only jobs for the lowest biddee
I saw this gig economy worker the other day
A mess of contusions spread across the whole highway
Head was in the gutter but the legs were over there
No one to compensate, no one to care
But don’t you worry about your kids they’ll be fine
There’ll be a job for them on the gig economy line
Gig economy, Gig economy
Pre-industrial Gig economy
Gig economy, Gig economy
It was no good for you, its no good for me
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No News Blues
03:34
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See those talking heads
With their news room sets
You can tell by the way they dress
In cheap rented rooms
They manufacture doom
It’s a budget, low rent production
Take any news situation
Smother it in speculation
It’s almost Machiavellian
You know they don’t have to be fair
They don’t have to be accurate
If they’re wrong, not sorry, move on
Ain’t no news it’s just a name
WIth the global outrage machine
Ain’t no news it’s just a name
WIth the global outrage machine
There is much hyperbole
And all the gesturing
But the evidence
It’s out of discipline
Feel like your land surveying
With a rhetorician
Selling subscriptions
Ain’t no news it’s just a name
WIth the global outrage machine
Ain’t no news it’s just a name
WIth the global outrage machine
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Lost Yacht
03:29
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Watching up ahead
A train crashing round a bend
It’s happening in slow motion
Well it seems its gonna be
Times or torrid seas
With analysis by 3 wise monkeys
Well for ages we’ve known
Felt it getting close
Never gonna get to go
Where the weather suits our clothes
Like a colony of frogs
Sitting on a paradise log
Being heated up by the blog
And as the heat hits the roof
We’re frog soup
Spilt in an abyss
With no parachute
Well for ages we’ve known
Felt it getting close
Never gonna get to go
Where the weather suits our clothes
On the news, they say
Folks houses getting washed away
By rivers and the sea day after day
And no one did too much
Until they lost their yachts
Paralysis by investments
Well for ages we’ve known
Felt it getting close
Never gonna get to go
Where the weather suits our clothes
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Blake County and the Modern Proletariats Melbourne, Australia
Building from traditional progressions of the early country folk blues recordings; with the lyrics that are a tribute to Woody Guthrie, but not so much the sentimental stuff, more the satirical end of his work. Blake County and the Modern Proletariats are mostly singing contemporary commentary with the intention to amuse. ... more
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