Propagandhi - How to Clean a Couple of Things

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Side 1

		Track Name	Length
	1	Pigs Will Pay	02:15

Side 2

		Track Name	Length
	1	Stick the Fucking Flag up Your Ass, You Sonofabitch	02:52

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Vinyl transferred Mar 25, 2025
Side one: All Cops are Bad, you know...

Mr. Mailey, my shops teacher.

"You aren't very smart," he said,
"And you aren't serious about what's important.
When are you gunna grow up." he said.

But I decided right there that
The conventional sense of maturity is
A facade, and people should stop wasting
Their time on convention and
Spend it on life so

I laughed.

It made him twice as angry as he was before.

I enjoyed it very much.

(John-John)

Side two: Stick the fucking flag up your ass, you skinhead creep.

My father told me "Son it's futile to resist.
You can topple the ideology but not the armies they enlist."
I questioned the intentions of the boy scouts chanting "WAR!"
"Well, that's the sound of freedom, son", he said (free to say no more).
But wait a minute "dad", did you actually say freedom?
Well, if you're dumb enough to vote, you're fucking dumb enough to believe them.
Because if this country is so goddamned free, then I can burn your fucking flag wherever I damn well please.
And Then I'm Gonna Stick it Up Fucking Your Ass!
I carried their anthem convinced it was mine.
Rhymeless, unreasoned conjecture kept me in line.
But then I stood back and wondered what the fuck they had done to me. Made accomplice to all that I promised I would never be.
You carry their anthem, convinced that it's yours.
Invitation to honour.
Invitation to war.
Bette Midler now assumes sainthood. Romanticize murder for morale.
Tie a yellow ribbon 'round the oak tree my friend and "Gee, Wally.
That's swell!"
Fuck the troops to hell!

Pigs Will Pay:
Thought, word and deed once sloganeered: a reaction undefined. The battle-hymn, the mantra of a once unfocused mind. But as logic tempered anger, (still inspired, but now informed), the “pigs” we’d turned to caricature became far worse that we’d warned. Morality enforcement based on the interest of a state. Coerced into concordance and threatened into place. It’s not just isolated incidents of cop-jocks kicking ass. It’s a fucking war machine protecting the wealth of the employing class.

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