It’s been a while since you could hear our new stuff if you didn’t make it to a rare concert. Hopefully the concerts will pick up soon. This is the first of three lo-fi recordings we made last weekend. It’s our newest variation on Gil Scott-Heron’s seminal tune. We’ll be doing it live Sunday afternoon at The Vanderelli Room.
Roger Hines, bass; Brett Burleson, guitar; The Governor, drums; Michael Vander Does, vocal & trombone.
Here’s the text:
The Counter-Revolution Will Be Televised
Racists will speak openly of “Replacement Theory”
While they gang-rape critical race theory
Or any race theory except the master race
All on cable TV.
Our Quislings will complement our enemies
Admire neat gardens and on time trains
dungeons and interrogation techniques
Talk talk talking on the talk talk talk shows
The counter-revolution will be televised.
Politicians will foment sedition and flirt with treason
They will say it in front of morning cameras
and deny it in the afternoon.
The ex-president will exhort re-insurrection.
You will watch MAGA troopers Storm the Capitol
You will wait for the po-po to show up
And see them not.
The counter-revolution will be televised.
You will watch Tucker Carlson pollute the wires
And Josh Hawley grandly stand against abortion
And against helping babies against women
Against truth and for guns and dirty money
And a young fascist listens and buys a gun.
He will stream massacre Black people because he hates Jews.
The lone wolf will become a stream-pack of massacres
The counter-revolution will be televised.
You will watch C-SPAN in horror
As McConnell and McCarthy manipulate and hypocritize for power over all and
Attempt another legislative coup
The counter-revolution will be televised.
outside
the Proud Fascist Boys and the White Power Oath Keepers and the Boogalosers
Will Attempt another violent coup
The counter-revolution will be televised.
A packed Supreme Court will not be televised
But will legitimize the illegitimate
And then overturn Obergfell and Brown gleefully
And gleefully
Their pundits will rail across the ether
The counter-revolution will be televised
