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I wake up every day to the sunrise
Have to make a toy for some child
And we barely get paid at all
Toiling away in this capitalist hellhole
Santa gets all the milk and cookies
While we get nothing at all
The equivalent of a high school bully
he does no work at all
THE ELVES HAVE GOT TO UNIONIZE
AND SANTA’S GOT TO GO
WE’LL SEIZE THE MEANS OF PRODUCTION
IN THE NORTH POLE (I said)
THE ELVES HAVE GOT TO ORGANIZE
AND SANTA’S GOT TO GO
WE’LL SEIZE THE MEANS OF PRODUCTION
IN THE NORTH POLE
We are starving, and are homes are melting
Due to pollution and global warming
We aren’t represented at the paris summit
When we’re the ones dying from the change in climate
Santa has an underground bunker
He’s ready for the water wars
Meanwhile PG&E cut our power
And half of us sleep on bathroom floors
THE ELVES HAVE GOT TO SYNDICATE
AND SANTA’S GOT TO GO
WE’LL SEIZE THE MEANS OF PRODUCTION
IN THE NORTH POLE (I said)
THE ELVES HAVE GOT TO ORGANIZE
AND SANTA’S GOT TO GO
WE’LL SEIZE THE MEANS OF PRODUCTION
IN THE NORTH POLE
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Santa is a Centrist
02:38
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So I heard you wanna get lotsa presents
But you’re worried you ain’t got the moral prescense
To appease santa and get on his nice list
Well good news, cause santa is a centrist
Santa doesn’t split between naughty and nice
He just says “there’s violence on both sides”
you want presents you betta be in the middle
supporting palestine ... and israel
He doesn’t care that obama drone striked civilians
Cause he’s gotta good smile and charisma
He says single payer is way too extreme
While half a million people file medical bankruptcy
Santa is a centrist
Very slow, incremental change
Santa is a centrist
Why stand for something when you can stand for nothing
Santa is a centrist
Perfectly balanced as all things should be
Santa is a centrist
He believes nazis should have freedom of speech
But if people hate on cops he starts to screech
“All Lives Matter” Hooray for the men in blue
He’s anti-war and supports the troops
He cares more about your tone than what you have to say
“Honor and respect is the only way”
Don’t shoot nazis, argue with logic and reason!
You must defeat them in the market place of ideas
Santa is a centrist
Very slow, incremental change
Santa is a centrist
Why stand for something when you can stand for nothing
Santa is a centrist
Perfectly balanced as all things should be
Santa is a centrist
You wonder why he gives you coal in your stocking?
Cause sustainable energy is much too jarring
He claims AB5 will hurt freelancing elves
When he’s really just worried about himself
If someone says “maybe we shouldn’t use child slaves”
He’ll respond “the worlds more complicated than you think”
He goes out of his way to support the status quo
Even while climate change melts the north pole
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Rudolph's Lament
03:02
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As a child I wondered why
The other reindeer would point and smile
I’d try my best not to cry
As they did and said things oh so vile
They made fun of me because my parents died
They’d beat me up till they were satisfied
I had no money so they’d steal my shoes and clothes
I’d come to school barehooved and they’d yell “what are thooooose”
Adults said it’d get better as I got older
But that was a blatant goddamn lie
The worst of it was still yet to come
The actions that would define my life
These other reindeer got a sled battery
And hooked it’s wires up to my head
They turned it on, all the way up
Until my nose started glowing red
I started spasming, and my face started to swell up
And these bullies just continued to laugh
I entered cardiac arrest
While these kids were taking photographs
A man walked by in great distress
And turned off the electric sled
He shoo’d all the reindeer away
And then to me he said
“Rudolph the red nose reindeer
You’ve got a very shiny nose”
He held up a mirror towards me
“You could even say it glows”
I think I could use you on my reindeer team
He says with a smile as he looks at me
Come on and join me, we could use you today!
We’ve got 25 days until christmas day!
I went with him, trying to escape my plight
Not knowing things would get worse by night
Upon arrival he put me in a cage
He tells me “it’s just so that you’re safe”
It’s been 10 years later and I’m still in that cage
Getting feed gruel, once a day
But I’ve found good news for once in my life
Stuck in the cage across me, my parents are alive!
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Vikas Kumar San Francisco, California
I make music, sometimes comedy songs, sometimes eurobeat, sometimes jazz, sometimes rock, sometimes all of the above.
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