The nothing is wrong blues

Someday, if things go well, I’m going to write the nothing is wrong blues
Long after a certain drama queen we all know will have stopped dominating the news.

I just won't know how to negotiate these days that are so long.
It’s not easy singing the blues when there’s nothing wrong.

When the soul troller came to town, we really got to know our neighbors more.
Now, though, they're back the way they were, which is actually kind of a bore.

Life was interesting when that man put on his apprentice show.
Why he could do anything; there was nothing he did not know.

He was the epitome of perfection; he was the end,
so fantastically great that we'd never need vote again,

who was going to take care of all decisions automatically
and forget all that nonsense about rank democracy.

His was a vision of Aryan Supremacy and a divine autocracy
to replace 250 years of  constitutional republican democracy.

And there we were about to sign on the dotted line.
And then we had an epiphany some said was fine.

For all the shortcomings of democracy, there is one nice feature.
You can always say no thank you, next please, to the creature

who would con us with his gimmicks that sort of resemble gold
but is really a bag of tricks played upon fools young and old.

And so here I am again singing the nothing is wrong blues
which will last a long time or until I go look at the news.

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Why I'm so happy
today I shaved my head
though I'm wonderin
what my friends will say about

my 6 mm buzz

well that's what you get when
you neglect to brush your teeth
yeah that's what you get for
chewing gum in your sleep

a slumped sleepless sigh
makes a fitting goodbye

goodbye

I could swear them drainpipes
were burping
aloud

-burp-

Why so tired?
today you've done nothing
save carressing
what's left upon that scalp
and brush them dry flakes
off of the lashes of thine eye

see them tumbling down,
down to the ground
and frown
oh ol' freak flag of mine

goodbye

I could swear them drainpipes
were clogging
bawling, burping
and choking and squawking
about

chewing gum in my sleep
chewing gum in your sleep

6 Mm Buzz

A Proud and Servile Nitwit

When it comes to alt-facts I entrust my family to,
only the Trump brand of alt-facts will do.

And I'm so thrilled with what I get
being a good little servile nitwit.

Yes we on the alt-right do take a great deal of alt-pride
in having the alt-truth and the alt-law on our alt-side.

And we are so thrilled with everything we get
being good little servile nitwits.

No alt-law abiding citizen has anything to fear
unless one is Muslim, black, brown, or queer,

or in any other way is not so thrilled with what they get
when they choose to be an enemy of us servile nitwits.

Oh well now, when Massa Cahbun say, yall sell dem chillaren on down de ole riva,
we servile nitwits pipe right back with yah suh, Massa Cahbun, yah suh,

and we are so thrilled with everything we get.
And that is why I am so good and obedient a servile nitwit.

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Look here, brother.

I'm not trying to jive you with any sort of cosmic debris,
'cause I have no clue  either, you see.

Please don't be so hard on stupidity.
I suspect the best that humanity

can achieve is a strategy
in which we are aware of and minimize mine and yours, stupidity,

while grasping there's no finality
but rather on ongoing effort that we

endeavor within a strategy
to minimize our stupidity.

Our stupidity,
oh yah, is alive in you and in me, our stupidity.

Now I rather suspect the very best that the very best that humanity
can achieve is a strategy

to be aware of and therefore minimize stupidity
In you and me. Oh yeah, in you and me.


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ROCK YO BODYY (feat. pharrell Williams)

Something to bob those heads too, whether you commuting, or just relaxing, Life of the Party 🔥

Life of the Party

Reminiscing 2

I’ll rather be on promethazine 

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My songs exist for one reason, the sheer joy of a guy singing a song.

I'm a quarter Danish, a quarter Texan, and half Mormon.

Influence: Steve Miller, U Utah Philips, Wendy Carlos, Aere Greenway, Phil Oaks. Mike Pinder, Moody Blues, Blood Sweat and Tears. Bob Dylan, Mark Russel, Aretha Franklin, The Buffalo Springfield, Frank Sanatra, Jonie Mitchel, Judy Collins, Buffy St Marie, Lee Nolan West, James Paul Ashurst, Mathew Brice Ashurst, Pink Floyd, Led Zeppelin, Doors, Ann Ashurst Jackson, Susan Caroline Ashurst, John what-the-hells-his-middle-name Ashurst, Earl Mark Ashurst, Joe, Barabara Brown Ashurst, Douglas Stevens, Paul Stevens, Hazen Stevens, Stan Stevens, Bob Stevens, Lee Stevens, the Mormon Tabernacle Choir, and Jesus Christ. Amen.
My music doesn't come out of San Francisco. It doesn't come out of Detroit. It doesn't come out of the Mississippi Delta. I'd be proud if it did but it's not trying to be that. My music comes out of Mormon country, USA, within a place, within a period of history, within this culture. I'm trying embrace my LDS, my progressive, and my ultra conservative loved ones.