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SUFFER

So we suffer. So we suffer ...

Desensitized by their lies
Bombarded bluntly by their cries
The atrocities
These masters of their minions call
From their power-office tall
Cause to regulate

You know it's great to be alive
Even better if you're living
Burdens flung that break the back
In the grim hope that it's worth it
What did we do to ever suffer?

They're replacing the reality with absurd terminology
Got their interests at heart
Reams and reams of filthy dealings,
Self-justified, believing that they know best

Look at that greedy man
Smarming on the television
Telling us it's good for you
And it fills an empty belly
What did we do to ever suffer?

These fools, these liars
These tricksters and thieves
They've duped, gulled and deceived us all
These swindlers, bigots, hoodlums in grey suits
They've duped us all
And they'll feed you to the dogs

So we suffer for their art
And it's been like this from the start
They put a shotgun to your heart
And they make sure you play your part

So we suffer for their art
And it's been like this from the start
So we suffer, so we suffer

Monsters of hypocrisy, swanking in obscenity
They drag us down
An effervescent stream of bullshit
Monumental falsehoods to install obedience

You know fact is always more absurd than fiction
Democracy - there's a joke
Every five years in the waiting
What did we do to ever suffer?

And it goes on and on and on …

These fools, these liars, these tricksters and thieves
They've duped, gulled and deceived us all
They'll put a shotgun to your heart
And it's been like this from the start
As we suffer for THEIR art
And they make sure you play your part
And it goes: on and on and on
It goes on and on and on … {like this song!}

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from HMS Disaster ('H​.​M​.​S. Remaster'), released June 22, 2022
Written, performed and recorded by Herb Garden.
© + ℗ Herb Garden 1993-2022

Herb Garden are:
CARL Graves: Lead vocals
DAVE Crook: Bass guitar; backing vox
BEN Wallis: Drums
PHIL Marsden: Lead guitar
RAT Crook: Rhythm guitars

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We've remastered 1989's Eponymous EP, often known as 'Bulldozer Jones', and all the tracks that led to Warner's DNA mini-LP. We've loads to reveal! ... more

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