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This is an old song that didn't make it onto either of my EPs. I was getting fed up with career politicians who would say and do pretty much anything to climb the greasy pole. If anything it is even worse today. Those who pander to hate and prejudice let us down badly.

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Promises pour from your lips
To you it's just like falling from a log
You've no intention to see through
Hollow pledges you obscure by propaganda fog

Recruit the liars and the cheats, the ones that you can goad
The power of the gullible, the foaming xenophobes
They'll rally to your cause. You'll ride to victory of a sort
As you lead us morally bankrupt down the road that you have bought
You've sold us short. With what you've wrought.
For your own ends. You've sold us short. Hey!

Divide and rule, the age old trick
We fall for it every time
Play into the hands of the power-crazed nut
Who couldn't give a toss for you just wants his pockets lined

Recruit the liars and the cheats, the ones that you can goad
The power of the gullible, the foaming xenophobes
They'll rally to your cause. You'll ride to victory of a sort
As you lead us morally bankrupt down the road that you have bought
You've sold us short. With what you've wrought.
For your own ends. You've sold us short. Hey!

All of this pretence is all for just one aim
All of this pretence just for your own gain
We'll seek you out we'll call you out. For the liar that you've been
We won't be fooled again no we won't be taken in

Recruit the liars and the cheats, the ones that you can goad
The power of the gullible, the foaming xenophobes
They'll rally to your cause. You'll ride to victory of a sort
As you lead us morally bankrupt down the road that you have bought

Yes this just reaps the harvest of the lies that we've been taught
Another sad example of the web in which we're caught
In the end you leave us as you always do sold short
You've sold us short. With what you've wrought.
For your own ends. You've sold us short.

credits

from (Jack Of All Trades) Master Of None, released October 13, 2018
Featuring Joel Howe on bass & drums

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