Dave Eggers Awesome Collaboration Major Music Bands

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XE0nOfTA3pY

From a great height he's looking down on his city at night
From gilded room of gold, marble and soft perfume
And he's proud to say he built his fortune the old-fashioned way
Because to succeed there's only one thing you really need

A million dollar loan
Nobody makes it on their own without
A million dollar loan
You'll reap what you've sown from
A million dollar loan
Call your father on the phone and get that
Million dollar loan

His enemies can't contain the flames of jealousy
With brutish charm the women flock to be on his arm
Because it's a sign of weakness to apologize
And he counter sues from any corner he's backed into

A million dollar loan
Nobody makes it on their own without
A million dollar loan
To cast the first stone you'll need
A million dollar loan
Every ascension to a throne starts with
A million dollar loan

A million dollar loan
Nobody makes it on their own without
A million dollar loan
You'll reap what you've sown from
A million dollar loan
Call your father on the phone and get that
Million dollar loan

A siren screams through the city as he falls asleep
The campaign begins again at the break of day

A million dollar loan
Nobody makes it on their own without
A million dollar loan
To cast the first stone you'll need
A million dollar loan
Every ascension to a throne starts with
A million dollar loan

A million dollar loan
Nobody makes it on their own without
A million dollar loan
You'll reap what you've sown from
A million dollar loan
Call your father on the phone and get that
Million dollar loan

ELECTION 2016
Dave Eggers Unveils Awesome Collaboration with Major Music Bands to Fight Trump: '30 Days, 30 Songs'
The first song paints Trump as a pathetic character set to a catchy melody.
By Jenny Pierson / AlterNet October 11, 2016

Amid gaggles of celebrity endorsements for Hillary Clinton and condemnations of racist, sexist, xenophobic Donald Trump this election season, the new "30 Days, 30 Songs" campaign led by McSweeney's founder and author of A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius Dave Eggers stands out for its catchy tunes. Major music acts including R.E.M., Aimee Mann and Death Cab for Cutie are recording original songs, one of which will be released every day until election day, November 8.

The first original song, "Million Dollar Loan" by Death Cab for Cutie (indie-turned-huge star darlings of The O.C. soundtrack fame), was released Monday, along with a dark and broody music video. The video features a Trump lookalike alone in a bustling city, silhouetted with his face turned down when he's not shown preaching at a rally.
http://www.alternet.org/election-2016/d ... 30-days-30

Death Cab for Cutie is a band known for its introspective lyrics and sad-tinged indie melodies, and the new song applies these features to take Trump to task for the much criticized, self-described "small loan" of $1 million he received from his father to start his business empire. All in all it portrays Trump as a sad emo kid as a wall is literally built around him in his solitude. Sad!

The "30 Days, 30 Songs" site explains the motivation for the project:

"As artists, we are united in our desire to speak out against the ignorant, divisive, and hateful campaign of Donald Trump. We will not be duped by Mr. Trump’s rhetorical contortions, by his pandering and lies and false promises. He has shown the content of his character time and time again, and the very fact of his candidacy is a blight on the nation. His words incite hatred and celebrate inequity."

The site also features praise of Hillary Clinton and personalized notes to "supporters of Bernie Sanders" ("Bernie Sanders is no longer running for president," the site states matter-of-factly), "environmentalists" (Donald Trump wants to "eliminate the Environmental Protection Agency"), "feminists who can't get behind HIllary" ("elect the first woman president in the history of the United States"), "those who care about Muslim-Americans, Mexican-Americans, immigrants, and humanity," "people who care about transparency in government," and "Obama supporters not feeling it for Clinton."

"30 Days, 30 Songs" describes itself as "an independent website... produced by the creators of 90 Days, 90 Reasons, which sought to motivate voters to give President Obama a second term."

Watch the first song released by "30 Days, 30 Songs": Death Cab for Cutie's "Million Dollar Loan":
http://www.alternet.org/election-2016/d ... 30-days-30

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qROQ0XYP4Ck

That bastard making fun of me in front of all my peers
Those people think I own this town, you’re stripping all my gears
Well guess what Mr. President, I’ll be seeing you
In four years

Though on the campaign trail the papers paint me like a clown
Still all I see are crowds who want to fit me for a crown
I point out all my enemies just so my fans
Bring them down

Isn’t anybody going to stop me?
I don’t want this job
I don’t want this job, my god
Can’t you tell
I’m unwell

You try to pin me down but you don’t really try that hard
I throw out any shit I want and no one trumps that card
So dazzled and distracted by your fantasy
Of Hildegard

Isn’t anybody going to stop me?
I don’t want this job
I don’t want this job, my god
Can’t you tell
I’m unwell

You ask about my plan but baby my plan is to win
I wind up all the tops and watch the others keep the spin
You handing me grenades is just compelling me
To pull the pin

Isn’t anybody going to stop me?
I don’t want this job
I can’t do this job, my god
Can’t you tell
I’m unwell

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Ledinsky

"DonaldTrumpMakesMeWannaSmokeCrack"


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GaAmnltIcA4

Money, money
Money on my mind
Money, money
Money on your mind
To the boats we're all criminals here
And that big wall is the new frontier
Well
DonaldTrumpMakesMeWannaSmokeCrack
Go to Canada and never come back
Where you gone
Betty Friedan
Where you gone
Gore Vidal

Money, money
Money on my mind
Money, money
Money on your mind
To the boats we're all immigrants here
And that big wall is the new frontier

Hold up, hold up
Let me off
Hold up, hold up
This train won't stop

Middle finger in the air if you’re feeling like I do

Money, money
Money on my mind
Money, money
Money on your mind
To the boats
We're all criminals here
And that big wall is the new frontier
I said,
DonaldTrumpMakesMeWannaSmokeCrack
Go to Canada and never come back
Where you gone
Betty Friedan
Where you gone
Gore Vidal

Middle finger in the air if you’re feeling like I do




https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=niJtpcgtUQs

A demagogue is motivated by ego and self-interest.

A demagogue amplifies prejudices and fears, whipping up a fury of hatred to distract from their lack of reasoned argument or considered thought.

A demagogue makes hollow promises. To return a nation to a fantasy state of greatness that never existed. To solve everyone’s problems.

A demagogue offers no evidence to support the promises they make.

A demagogue is not interested in the future and prosperity of the nation they wish to command, only in their own power.

A demagogue questions and undermines the validity of the democratic process, claiming it to be rigged against them.

A demagogue is a bully.

A demagogue is a narcissist, prone to comically exaggerated acts of vanity.

A demagogue is often a sexual predator, abusing their power to satisfy their lust.

A demagogue has no interest in facts or truth, lying easily and freely to meet their desires.

A demagogue preys upon divisiveness: they declare some ethnic or social group to be the enemy, and insist we rise together against them.

A demagogue has no regard for the vulnerable in society. They are to be derided, rather than cared for.

A demagogue is hot tempered and irrational, prone to capricious violent outbursts triggered by the slightest puncture of their gossamer-thin skin.

A demagogue uses any means to suppress their opponents, threatening to lock them up, and then, once in power, making them physically disappear.

A demagogue suppresses any voice that dare speak out against them. The free press is an early target: a demagogue undermines the credibility of the press during their rise to power, and then censors the press once they have seized power.

A demagogue is consumed by ambition, insatiable like the thirst of a rabid dog.

A demagogue is ultimately insecure, with serious psychological issues. Emotionally unwell. Unstable.

A demagogue is a threat to their own nation.

The more powerful the nation, the greater the threat to the entire planet.


He’s a demagogue
Check out his rise
He’s fatally famous
He plays with my fears
My shadow side dreaming
It feels so good to be dumb
From the Wall straight to La Quenta
Those pussy grabbing fingers won’t let go of me now
He’s a demagogue
He’d like to punch in your face
He's a demagogue
Throwing terminal shade
He knows all of the words
He sees a nation of marks
From the mob to chapter eleven
Those tiny vulgar fingers on the nuclear bomb
What’s a mother and father got to do with making me?

[seemslikeadream]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iKvuqZjQ8ng

Trump is like a horrible car crash with a bad comb-over. When he can't be bothered to keep up that bird's nest on his head, he wears a stupid hat that was most definitely made in China. He loves the sound of his own voice, but his breath smells like dog shit. He wants to bring all the glamour of professional wrestling to Washington. But most importantly, and seriously, Trump might be a Manchurian Candidate for Russia. A real comrade to the Kremlin.

LYRICS
Donald do you come in?
Donald do you copy?
Donald do you read?
Donald you’re breaking up...

With love from Russia
Vladimir says hi
Just like a phoenix
A superpower never dies

He’ll take the Baltics,
And Park Avenue
I’ll sell him Boardwalk
And there’s nothing you can do

With love from Russia
Vladimir says hey
Black clouds and lightning
A Siberian Candidate

Whatcha got to lose?
Whatcha got to lose?
Mother Russia’s woken up
I’m afraid our time is up

I don’t wanna be the end of your world
I don’t wanna be the end of your world
I don’t wanna be the end of your world
I don’t wanna be the end of your world

I am the life of the party
I am the life of the party
I am the life of the party
I am the life of the party

[seemslikeadream]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3gvQ8RPfTlM

The fact that the United States is even remotely considering the idea of a Donald Trump presidency is so very, very disturbing. How has this bully who capitalizes on the destruction of humanity somehow been given a free pass? We need to be working for peace, love, and equality. We need to find new and better ways to take care of each other, to make this nation a place where all feel safe and welcome, regardless of race, sex, or creed. We can't be ruled by the fear and hatred that Trump continues to push down our throats. Let’s sing our songs and cast our votes and work together to help make this country the center of peace and love that we all know it can be.

It’s the same old lie they tell you
When you’re little—
Try to make you forget just what it is
You’re really made of.
And follow on just like most everyone…
But you and me we ain’t like most everyone.
Pure individual bright as the shining sun.
And sure as hell we know—where it is we come from.
And where it is yeah we probably going back to—
But now we gonna live a little—
Try and get a little truth.
It’s the same it’s the same it’s the same old lie.

It’s the same old lie you been reading about
Bleeding out—
Now who’s getting cheated out?
You best believe it’s the silent majority—
And if you don’t vote it’s on you—not me.
It’s the same old lie told from the dawn of time.
Stretch it out a little try to milk every last dime.
Hate crimes. Shelter lines. They try to take what’s yours and mine…
Is there any peace to be found in a lifetime?
It’s the same it’s the same it’s the same old lie.

It’s the same old lie you gotta live with it—
Or if you got sense then you better try changing it.
But nothing is more difficult than changing what’s been comfortable—
We’ve seen it tried a million times—it’s hard to think when hypnotized.
But a lies a lie—it destroys from the inside—decays the teeth from behind that false smile.
A lie is a lie and I’ve told my fair share but—I know I’m gonna suffer for the shit I put out there.
It’s the same it’s the same it’s the same old lie.

Well it’s the same old lie—I think I died a little.
Guns drawn—faces long—
How much killing can be done?
It’s the same old lie they tell you when you die—
There are mansions up in heaven—50 virgins off in the sky.
Well you can’t trade today for some far off promise of tomorrow…
You can’t build love out of guns blood and sorrow.
They say we can’t live together—
But we know that’s a lie—
Cuz we know it in out heart we can make it if we try.
It’s the same it’s the same it’s the same old lie.
Same lie.