♫ Don’t wanna be buried in debt or in sinSo we pray to Jesus and we play the lottoCause there ain’t but two waysWe can change tomorrowAnd there ain’t no genieAnd there ain’t no bottleSo we pray to Jesus and … Continue reading The Weekend Politics Thread Sounds One Note on Sounding Off

♫ You can eat some now, you can eat some laterYou can warm ’em back up with your French fried potatersYeah I’m snackin’ all night, it’s all right, all rightGot an eight piece box ♫— Grab dinner at the gas … Continue reading The Weekend Politics Thread Meats You Halfway

♫ I can understand why you’d want a better manBut why you wanna make him outta me?Well, I just muddle along, knowing my right from wrongWhy won’t you let me be? ♫— No one wrote better opening stanzas than Peter … Continue reading The Weekend Politics Thread Reaches a Resolution

♪ The thousand times I lived before were just in my dreamsWell, I woke up to realize it didn’t mean a thingI’ve seen several better places, several better timesSomehow those memories got left behind ♪— As always, Son Volt rules … Continue reading The Weekend Politics Thread Gets in a Few Parting Jabs

♬ CarolIs calling to meNow I can see ♬— Sadly, tabbing these Chicago-based purveyors of the purest of pure power pop the next big thing proved the very first lie. Your jaded Weekend Politics Thread host believed he had seen … Continue reading The Weekend Politics Thread Sings From a Different Hymnal

♫ And it’s a thin line between pleasing yourselfAnd pleasing somebody else ♫— Love a WPT header for never offering the shortest route from point A to point B Uvular hews to most social conventions. Except for never marrying. Or … Continue reading The Weekend Politics Thread Drawls a Line

♬ I hate graveyards and old pawn shopsFor they always bring me tearsI can’t forgive the way they robbed meOf my childhood souvenirs ♬— The things we’ve kept made us who we became Watch for not seeing much of your … Continue reading The Weekend Politics Thread Gets Personally Political in a Microcosm of Maldistribution

♪ When the whistle blows each morningAnd I walk down in that cold, dark mineI say a prayer to my dear SaviorPlease let me see the sunshine one more time ♪— You’d pray, too, if your job required pickaxing a … Continue reading The Weekend Politics Thread Grumbles Into the Mine Field

♫ Hello Mrs. JonesGood neighbor SamHow are you doing?While you’re working nine to fiveDo you know what your kids are doing? ♫— Does Uvular even know any other classic SoCal punk bands? Geez, epigraph. Lay off the Uve for once … Continue reading The Weekend Politics Thread Yammers on Youths

♫ They’re growing houses in the fields between the townsAnd the Starlight drive-in movie’s closing downThe road is gone to the way it was beforeAnd the spaces won’t be spaces anymore ♫— A singer-songwriter from New Jersey who late-80s and … Continue reading The Weekend Politics Thread Slips Into the Zone

♫ A push from the left and a shove from the right ♫— No, no one said they wanted a revolution Calm yourselves. Your agitating Weekend Politics Thread host has not joined a revivified Symbianese Liberation Army. Even if he … Continue reading The Weekend Politics Thread Picks a Bone

♩ Lost sight of groundNever been so downNothing here to stand on It’s a war-weary roadAnother faceless tombstoneNothing here to stand on I turn to face the windMay never get outForever caught in a spinNo better place to begin ♩— … Continue reading The Weekend Politics Thread Makes Its Stand

♫ And there’s always something moreLost in talk, I waste my timeAnd it’s all been said beforeWhile further down behind the masqueradeThe tears are thereI don’t ask for all that muchI just want someone to careAnswer right now ♫— A, … Continue reading The Weekend Politics Thread Rides an Emotional Roller Coaster

♫ There’s lots of stuff to drag you downLots of stuff you shouldn’t mess aroundBut I think I’m in too deepIt’s getting warm and I won’t keep ♫— Not vampires, werewolves or mummies. Just zombies. Your un-undead Weekend Politics Thread … Continue reading The Weekend Politics Thread Craves Brains … BRAINS!

♭ Swelling up ’til it don’t matter muchOverwhelming, choking without a way to get it outIt screams inside and I wait for control, for containmentThen another waveI lash out at any who choose, choose to be thereRejecting responsibility, I hold … Continue reading The Weekend Politics Thread Blows Its Cool

♩ Who are the ones that we kept in charge?Killers, thieves, and lawyers ♩— The Black Rider Has a Bridge to Sell You More precisely, your off-hiatus WPT host asks what does anyone mean when they defend the indefensible as … Continue reading The Weekend Politics Thread Asks ‘What if God Was One of Us?’

♫ I confess I felt so worthlessI lost hope; big price to payNow there were stars and there were wild bird circlingA lot of screams, and fight breaks outBetween wars and between burningsHe did it all for a chance to … Continue reading The Weekend Politics Thread Picks Its Battles

♫ It’s not easyNothin’ to say ’cause it’s already saidIt’s never easyWhen I look on in your eyesThen I find that I’ll do fineWhen I look on in your eyesThen I’ll do better ♫— Heck, listen to the whole album … Continue reading The Weekend Politics Thread Reflects on the Recriminations of Reminiscing

♪ I smiled cos I loved you bothSo, I put the apron onI put the apron on ♪— The Once and Future Wesley Stace Think British folk rockers with a deep catalog of paeans to proletarians, and the brain brings … Continue reading The Weekend Politics Thread Belabors a Point About Working It Out