Popcorn

from No More Heroes by Solillaquists of Sound

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lyrics

VERSE 1 (Alexandrah)
Covered in stuttering young cause of cluttered hunger lines
Everyone’s a customer of something they despise.
Just along for the ride.
Tube it moved the social climb
Into visual war which time
Lets regrets as slippery
Butter smothered witchery.
It’s a spectator’s crime.
Didn’t never know the price,
Tuck me in with bad advice.
Wonder why the children play
Better in a stepford state?
Not a one would inquire.
All they were interested in was popcorn

HOOK
Popcorn! We like your teller vision but the television is telling us to vision more than what you’re telling us. Popcorn! Don’t get jealous pops. Give us what we need, I’ma seed, nurture me. No water please. Feed…

VERSE 2 (Swamburger)
Popcorn! Knock on pops to get a bag of their very own to be like the Jones’ next door. “What do you want it for?” Pop would say. Hesitant to cop for corn, shop for jawns they never touched after a year or two. Anyway, a penny saved he figured, until a day’s delay… The carnival came in town packed with clowns. Now, how’s this gonna go down? Pop’s contemplating… “Popcorn’s just a date away from kids going mad.” So he calls em over to his lap, begins a rap about vegetables, hoping it’ll distract em from the pop spectacle. Guess you know the rest, thinking what the kids stressed… “BUMP VEGGIES, (listen) BUMP POPS! WE WANT POPCORN!”

HOOK

Bridge (Jeff Ilgenfritz)
Got no silver, got no gold,
With no woman by my side,
Just an old road spectre soul,
Along for the ride.

credits

from No More Heroes, released August 4, 2009
(A. Brooks/A. Santon/G. Valencia, Jr.)
Guitar & Additional Vocals: Jeff Ilgenfritz of Mumpsy
Additional Back up Vocals: DiViNCi