🐓 Chaim Cock (Bupkis Blues) – the only Hanukkah song that comes with a T-shirt and zero apologies.
They tried to kill us. We survived. Let’s eat soup… but the chicken flew away.
A klezmer-punk earworm about the one gift every Jew recognizes: absolute bupkis. That rooster? His name is Chaim. That empty box? Same vibe. Front: vintage shtetl girl. Back: חיים קאָק in giant white letters.
Wear it. Stream it. Cry-laugh into your latkes.
🎶 108 BPM of Yiddish cynicism
🎸 Clarinet riffs that hurt so good
🪦 Chorus so catchy your bubbe will duet it in the shower


Chaim Cock Yiddish Bupkis Tee – Only Present I Ever Got 

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The Chaim Cock (חיים קאָק) Song (Bupkis Blues)

Sun’s up, but the sky looks mean. This track paints a picture of a seaside nightmare where beach patrols count profits and justice is sold like bubblegum. It's a surfin' rebellion against a system where cruelty isn't a glitch, it's the code. We’re the virus in the overload, surfing the chaos until the system pops.

(Verse 1)

Sun’s up, but the sky looks mean
Red tape wrapped in kerosene
Boardwalk ghosts with plastic grins
Smile wide while they reel you in

Cut the cord, they pull the plug
Gaslight’s burning, kiss the thug
Shockwave justice, twisted fun
They sell the pain like bubblegum!

(Chorus)

Cruelty’s the policy — hey! hey!
Kicks you down and calls it free — hey! hey!
Laugh it off, it’s tyranny in flip-flops
We surf the chaos till the system pops!

(Verse 2)

Beach patrols with mirrored eyes
Counting profits while freedom dies
Wave breaks on the TV screen
Neon sins in a washed-out dream

Blood in the sand, flags in the breeze
A nation kneels on bended knees
They call it order — we call it crime
We’ll crash their wave in double time!

(Chorus)

Cruelty’s the policy — hey! hey!
Spray-paint justice on the sea — hey! hey!
Ride the line, defy the tide
We’re the noise they can’t confine!

(Bridge)

You can’t drown a movement, man
Even in your master plan
We’re wired, wild, uncontained
You build walls — we build waves!

(Breakdown)

Cruelty’s not a glitch — it’s the code!
And we’re the virus in the overload!

(Final Chorus)

Cruelty’s the policy — hey! hey!
But we’ll rewrite that melody — hey! hey!
Surf the storm, don’t sink or hide
We’re the riptide, we’re the other side!

(Outro)

Cruelty’s the policy... not anymore... not anymore...

Conduit - Cruelty’s the policy

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Post-punk / alt-indie rock formed in the 90s → recently revived with new releases of old and new material. Raw guitars, lo-fi edge, melodic hooks, and protest-leaning themes. Full new album live now.

Formed in 1989 as various other names until we settled on Conduit in the early 1990's. Started jamming in a chicken coop, recorded music on a 4-track reel-to-reel, evolved to digital technology, Cakewalk, Acid Loops, etc... in the 1990-2000's.

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