Politics As Usual (That Was Our Scene)

Song Description

Using political and cultural events as reference points, including rock and roll album titles, each verse of the song attempts to capture a sense of the decades that have passed from the 1950s through the 2000s. It is a sardonic take on growing up in America.

Song Length 3:30 Genre Rock - Roots/Rock n' Roll, Rock - Punk
Lead Vocal Male Vocal Subject General
Similar Artists The Velvet Underground Language English

Lyrics

Leather jackets/Switch Blade Knives
Paragons meet the Jesters/Levittown Wives
Duck and cover/Run and Hide
Here comes the A-Bomb/Political Jive
Oh baby do you know what I mean/Yeah baby that was our scene
Leather jackets/Switch Blade Knives
Paragons meet the Jesters/Levittown Wives

Velvet jackets/Tie-dyed jeans/Surrealistic Pillow/Marijuana dreams
Tune in and turn on/Drop out for sure/Here comes the draft boards/Political War
Oh baby do you know what I mean/Yeah baby that was our scene
Velvet jackets/Tie-dyed jeans/Surrealistic Pillow/Marijuana dreams

Leather jackets/Safety pins/Sticky Fingers/All over again
Disco Ducks/Playboy Geeks/Here comes the Sex Repressed/Political Freaks
Oh baby do you know what I mean/Yeah baby that was our scene
Leather jackets/Safety pins/Sticky Fingers/All over again

Straight jackets/RayGun years/Appetite for Destruction/Herpes fears
Capitalist greed/Trickle down lies/Here comes the Iran gate/Political Guys
Oh baby do you know what I mean/Yeah baby that was our scene
Straight jackets/RayGun years/Appetite for Destruction/Herpes fears

Armani jackets/computer hackers/Achtung Baby/burned out slackers
Hip-hop rappers/big screen TV's/Millennium political/prophecies
Oh baby do you know what I mean/Yeah baby that was our scene
Armani jackets/computer hackers/Achtung Baby/burned out slackers

Camouflage Jackets/Bush league War/Is this it?/ I can't take no more
Blood for oil/Terrorist chills/Here come the night cause/Politics kills.
Oh baby do you know what I mean/Yeah baby that was our scene
Camouflage Jackets/Bush league War/Is this it?/I can't take no more

Lyrics MT Quinn Music MT Quinn
Producer MT Quinn Productions Publisher MT Quinn
Performance Nobody's Mule Label Golden Jackass

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