• in4apenny@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    23 hours ago

    Listening to that album nowadays is hair-raising. It’s almost as though people have been screaming in Americans faces for decades about what’s becoming impossible to ignore, I know I was singing these lyrics since 1999:

    "Well, I’d like to tell you all about my dream

    It’s a place where strip malls abound

    And diversion’s mere moments away

    Where culture’s defined by the ones least refined

    And you’ll be left behind if you don’t fit in

    It’s all distorted in Americana my way

    Well, fuck you

    Whoa, whoa, whoa, well, my dream has come true

    Whoa, whoa, whoa, my vision has come true

    Now give me my cable, fast food

    Four-by’s, tat’s right away

    I want it right now 'cause

    My ge-generation don’t like to wait

    My future’s determined by thieves, thugs and vermin

    It’s quite an excursion but it’s okay

    Everything’s backwards in Americana my way

    Well, fuck you

    Whoa, whoa, whoa, well, my dream has come true

    Whoa, whoa, whoa, my vision has come true

    Yeah, it’s all coming true

    I’m a product of my environment

    So don’t blame me, I just work here

    But I wanna fuck it up

    My rights are denied by those least qualified

    Trading profit for pride but it’s, it’s okay

    Everything’s backwards in Americana my way

    Well, fuck you

    Whoa, whoa, whoa, my nightmare has come true

    Whoa, whoa, whoa, my nightmare has come true

    Yeah, it’s all coming true

    Yeah, it’s all coming true"