♬ … deluged by stickers and billboardsThe conversation turns to warNever thought it would come down to this it seems every person for themselves ♬— When you hear a cry from the battlefront, weapons of love will not suffice. Say … Continue reading The Weekend Politics Thread Indulges Catholic Tastes

♪ God made man in harmonyMan against man in World War IIIWe’re fighting in EastThey’re killing in the WestEverybody wants to be the best  ♪— As countries rush for weapons, cold war kids have never lost that easy. ++++ Before … Continue reading The Weekend Politics Thread Plays the Hits That Are on Your Lips

♫ Well now take a look at that I made a castle in the sandSaying: this is where it’s at, youCouldn’t understand nowIf I realized that the chances were slimHow come I’m so surprised when the tide rolled in? ♫— … Continue reading The Weekend Politics Thread Sees the Sea Seize Shacks

♫ We roll right through our yearsWe drift right through our monthsI slide through our daysI’m always throwing hack weight ♫— Should you ever find yourself at the lonely end of the rink, skate away and jump into the fire. … Continue reading The Weekend Politics Thread Curls Up

♬ I must not think bad thoughtsI must not think bad thoughtsI must not think bad thoughts ♬— When the dream police execute their no-knock warrant on your dirty mind, will they find you out of your head? Your rarely … Continue reading The Weekend Politics Thread Drops a Dime

And what costume shall the poor girl wearTo all tomorrow’s partiesFor Thursday’s child is Sunday’s clownFor whom none will go mourning— Turns out, “Nico” and “Nazi” slant rhyme for a reason And speaking of people history should/must/please gods do treat … Continue reading The Weekend Politics Thread … OF COCKTAILS

♫ 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