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Snake Oil

from Meat The Thornes by The Thornes

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Snake Oil

Twisting and crawling
All around and in the cities
There's a Psychotropic snake
of mammoth size
A pastel abomination
ten billion pills and growing
With a sleeper hold it wraps
around our lives
And it's coils are so pretty
and it's promises so sweet
We lay down with blind acceptance
to be swallowed by the beast

Devouring ambition
all drive and inspiration
Noncompliant children are
the first prescribed
To be shoveled down into the troff
with their parents close behind
by disease mongering Psychiatrists
with portfolio in mind
And the serpent has it's masters
Pfizer Glaxo, Smith and Kline
While their creations snub the flames of youth
they grow fat around the fires

Well it's all right to feel extreme
Don't waste your life on a Prozac dream

This is your time Rise up and take control
Palm the Riddeline and the lies once told
And you mothers there, your future is not sold
You had a passion once and a wild heart of gold

Remember all those days when you felt young
The point of life is not to die, it's having fun

This is the time Rise up and take control
Palm the Risperdal and let the children go!
And you fathers there with families caked in mold
Your enemy's not them it's pharmaceutical

Remember all those days when you felt young
The point of life is not to die, it's having fun

Are you drifting in a city all alone?
Are you sitting there as stagnant as a stone?
Are you counting days with pills and watching clocks?
It's time to kick em out
Get off the couch and rock!
Rock!
Rock!
Rock!

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from Meat The Thornes, released June 29, 2013
Words and music by The Thornes
Backwards Violin - Brandy Starbird
Recorded, Mixed and Mastered by Justin Phelps
Recorded at Cloud City Sound in Portland, Oregon
additional recording by Brandon Eggleston and Tommy Barth

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The Thornes Portland, Oregon

The Thornes are a Portland based hardcore band formed in 2009 from members of Bast, Dutch Savage, Poison Idea and Slough Feg. Influences include Judas Priest, Sex Pistols, Thin Lizzy, Black Flag, Charles Bukowski and New Castle Brown Ale. "Demolition" EP released in 2010, "Meat The Thornes" LP released in 2013. Also featured on the Volume Bomb Records compilation "Blown Fuses and Bloody Ears". ... more

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