What to Say

from THE SHOPOCALYPSE by Reverend Billy & The Stop Shopping Choir

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lyrics

Can a public cry for peace,
Give a billboard a bad time?
Can a mile of smoking cars
Make a clear mind a crime?

Tiger’s got to hunt.
Bird got to fly.

Is this our own river here?
Is this our pure common air?
If we scream in the pixilated fog
Will we lose what we remembered there?

Tiger’s got to hunt.
Bird got to fly.
Tiger’s got to eat.
Human try to understand.

Did the city on the hill explode?
Take your seat for the sunniest day.
All of life is now watching us
As we forget, forget what to say.

Tiger’s got to hunt.
Bird got to fly.
Tiger’s got to eat.
Human try to understand.
(chorus repeats 3X)

Is this our own river here?
Is this our pure common air?
Tiger’s got to hunt.
Human try to understand.

credits

from THE SHOPOCALYPSE, released January 1, 2008
Lyrics: William Talen / Kurt Vonnegut
Vocal: Valerie Kelley
Special Vocals: William Moses
Vocal Quartet: Urania Mylonas / William Moses / John Quilty / Laura Newman
Band: E.K. Lewis / E. Johnson/ N. Stevens/ L. Gruenbaum / M. Tipton / W. Moses
Music: William Moses

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