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The gas prices go down
As Election Day comes up
To appease those remaining voters
And get them buttered up

All the elected officials
Start to feel anxieties
Will they get reelected?
Or get duped by the opposite party’s schemes?

There are but two political parties
In true dichotomy style
Two sides to the same coin
Two sections split by one aisle

Each side picks one contestant
From a narrow, privileged pool
Who can bring the big bucks?
And be the biggest corporately-sponsored tool?

On the surface, each contestant
Must look squeaky-clean
No history of Mary Jane
Or anything even remotely obscene!

You see, the American public
Just won’t tolerate
Anyone but a Christian
With a moralistic, empty clean slate

But once the contestants fool them
To believe in their facades
The people will bow down again
To those twisted demigods

Never mind their records
Might be tainted with war crimes
If it’s not drugs or sex-related
They are A-Okay in the prudish public’s eyes!

And once your foot is in that door
It’s smooth sailing from there
Human rights violations, genocide
Just don’t let them catch your love affair!!

And burn those high school yearbooks
Signed by your stoner peers
Stick to institutional violence
And you just might win an extra four years!!

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from Self​-​Help Acoustic, released August 1, 2015

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