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Y2K Buggin'

from PROTEST SINGER by DATSON

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First released as a single on CD Stickylabel 1999
Re released in limited edition CD on Stickylabel in 2010
Digital Rerelease 2019 Art Records 2019

lyrics

I saw Marx and Engels riding in a rodeo
Power to the people going to the Easter show

The President has bombed the Serbs and come back from a bitter blow
Slobidan, well he should know

Seismic fall or aliens abducted or just born again
The Ozone layer holed up there block it up, bring back big hair

Oh baby you and me let's get out of the 20th century
I got the key to the door and I've never been 21 before

Thanks to the academy the nimrod and the ABC
Ren and scientology, I'd let Harvey cum on me

El Nino's gone its rained all day
I killed the 2K bug with spray

Success has stole my velvet scooter
smoke coming from my computer

Haven't worked a week in days
it's hard enough just to get paid

Got contractual obligations
writer for united nations
Specialise in history
make it rhyme like poetry
The Dali Lama left tibet
Moved into the TAB

Oh baby I can see your over the 20th century
I got the key to the door and we've never been 21 before

Che and Fergie and the Poe
Diana's back she blamed the dope
The Lady of Shallot it seems
has ploughed up fields and put in beans
The Amazon she's half on fire
the unburnt part you still could buy
Met a girl on internet
she heeled my dog she ain't no vet
The wife's returned the truck is fixed
fate has thrown a double six
One more bed a silk pyjama
one more drink there will be drama

Pernod and ice, that'd be nice
Come with me, into the next century

As a man who writes the past I like to dabble in the arts
Sing a song, see some film I feel quite well I've taken pills

I know my case is much maligned
you can't sue me I just resigned

I saw Marx and Engels riding in a rodeo
Power to the people going to the Easter show

What I write it will come true
You best be careful I don't write of you

Liar liar pants on tighter
Pinocchio and Pinochet waiting there at Heaven's gate
the guest list says just plus one
Billy-jean that chair is not my son


Y2K Bugging

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from PROTEST SINGER, released June 16, 2019
Composer/Producer Geoffrey Datson
Poem written and spoken by Geoffrey Datson
Female vocals Annette Hughes

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GEOFFREY DATSON is a sound artist, combining spoken word, electronica and instrumentation in his recordings. Many poets recite their work to music, but few are also composers. Datson's work is a synthesis of forms of sonic expression in which the voice and the sound field are interdependent. ... more

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