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Subversiv Dekadent

by The Distractors

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    Roll up, roll up and wear your love for The Distractors and Steve Reynders incredible design work on your chest as you steal a car and punch somebody in the face! Enjoy your high-quality cot-ton, screen printed, heather grey t shirt as much as you enjoy the songs!

    We guarantee that within 12 hours of sporting this garment you'll look as hungover as the model in the photo, in the style and size of your choosing... All thanks to the power of Rock & Roll!

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1.
The truth is like poetry And everybody hates poetry. I'll tell you what you want to hear instead, If we're lucky we'll end up dead You know I've heard it said, You're a big girl in a small town But the only way to leave your one horse town Is with the volume up and the windows down It's all fun and games until somebody loses their mind But if you have to fail, better fail at something worth your time.
2.
Give me something Give me some hope Something to carry straight to hell You get no points for style You just gotta have time to kill Grudges don't put liquor in the cabinet My plans are somewhat less elaborate Let the old wounds reopen Let it all come pouring out I write myself a memo A memo to keep away from you Sing your songs, Jesus Christ What a year for bad advice.
3.
Split that atom, throw it on the floor You got what you came for but you want more. Wade in the water with me, you never know what's in there Everything dies 'cos baby life ain't fair I'm alright, your alright, he's alright, she's alright. If I have to die, you have to die. You got a lot of nerve to show your face after what you've done for the human race Gonna figure out what to do, gonna take my time. I want it, I need it. I move.
4.
Well I thought I told you to give up You're on the outside of an in joke You're pushing water uphill You've got 20 questions your gonna get wrong. From the first life, to the next world and the next song, Evil Mariachi Shake hands with irresponsibility I know just what you want to hear It's the only show in my locker I've got 20 questions you're gonna get wrong. Nothing changes, at least not fast enough.
5.
Well I've got a smoking gun A smoking gun I can't stub out But a heart can stop a bullet If I fire it, have no doubt The night is young and so are you Well I'm a hate preacher Gonna practice what I preach Gonna nurse that anger Gonna learn just what I teach Life's a plate glass window begging for a brick
6.
I've been counting my blessings on my fingers and toes Spending most of my life watching the wrong episodes And where it's gonna end up, well baby, god only knows Nothing's sacred, nothing lasts Yes even this shall pass I fight my way out from the past Listen to me when I say "I love you to the max" The stakes are high so we go hungry The dark places hold no secrets for you or for me Do I really have to surrender to authority?
7.
I've got holes in my shoes I've got the makings of the blues You can hear it all over town Friends in low places, the devil's looking down Gonna do wrong, do wrong right. When I start to talking, baby, I can't stop Gonna tear it down, gonna rip it up I'm driving nails in my coffin the old fashioned way Ain't no stopping me no matter what you say. Got eight arms to hold you Do all the things I'm not supposed to It's about time you learned the truth I'm a cartoon and I'm bulletproof Light the match, baby, and stand well back Your failure is my power pack Oh the humanity, the degradation Putting the varnish on my bad reputation
8.
Makes me want to steal a car and punch somebody in the face We've all got our problems but this ain't the time and it ain't the place I'm out of it as a proper response to confusing my needs and wants I never meant for this to happen, oh baby, it ain't my fault We're selling ourselves short We can all be so much more We're dragging each other down To hell with good intentions You're a cut price version of yourself, It's time to try something new This square peg don't fit its round hole so what do you want to do For all our education, our sophisticated airs. We've just traded the coal mine for an office chair
9.
Burning bridges, just to watch them fall Scratch my itches, don't mean nothing at all It's a futile gesture, better get in line Nobody's listening, no that's no crime What you see you might not get, you know. Bang Bang Bang Squeeze that shaman, no the kids don't lie Time to become a savage right before your eyes
10.
They say God's a working man, but he knows that ain't for me I've raised more hell than you. Mix tapes and mistakes, oh lord! To be seventeen forever. Yeah, I'd stoop to that if you asked me. She said "You look kinda like Westerberg". I said "Your vision's kinda blurred" I'm cutting you off. And I know you're pleased to meet me, but who invited you To my swinging party?
11.
Standing in the middle of a labyrinth, you hunt a way out that don't exist When I realised we're just monkeys in pants, hooting at the abyss I know they'll try to tell you everything you need's within But, baby, I tried to drown my demons and they just learned to swim Did you ever have a vision of your own doom in the dead of the night? You're late your appointment in Sammarah, ain't never gonna see the light? You ask yourself "Why would heaven take me, of all the human race?" That's cos everybody up there's tired of singing Amazing Grace You'll never take us alive and I don't plan to wind up dead.
12.
Everyone hates everyone, but not the way that I hate you. Long Live The Dead

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Subversiv Dekadent, released via Trashwax is the debut album by Belgium and the World's fabulous Distractors!

Recorded to capture the sound of Elvis fighting Bruce Lee, it features 12 slices of rock n roll mayhem guaranteed to make you want to steal a car and punch somebody in the face.

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released May 14, 2021

Lobster Johnson: The Guitar/Vox/MC
Yves De Molotov: The Bass
The Man With The Golden Fingers: The Guitar
JP9000: The Trap Kit

Recorded and Mixed by Peter Snakeboots at The Yellow Tape, Gent

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