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The Post​-​Truth Blues

from Love Island by Louis Brennan

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The Post Truth Blues

Oh I like drinking beer
Smoking cigarettes
I like eating animals
And I don’t have any regrets
About how they die
No I’d do it myself
Look that chicken in the eye

Oh I know just how my coffee’s grown
That Chinese children made my phone
With cobalt exacerbating conflict situations
In the poorest regions of the Congo basin
I’s a shame
But what can you do?
If you need someone to blame
You can always pin it on the ….

Maybe the line in the sand is drawn by the hand
Of some avaricious puppeteer
Like a karaoke singer at a Steinway grand
What you see don’t match what you hear
But if you’re feeling confused
About which side to choose
Just get a second opinion that supports your views
‘Cause facts are just an anachronism
Dressed up as the truth

Oh I see women’s bodies
Before I see their minds
Just because I’m a liberal, sweetheart
Doesn’t mean that I’m blind
I’m a product of conditioning
Amirite??
Or maybe I’m an overgrown ape
Who only wants to fuck and fight

Oh and I don’t know but I’ve heard it said
That the Russians and the Saudis
Are both in bed
With the Brits and the Yanks
And the Germans too!
Trynna control decent people like me and you
They put something in the water man
They’ve got teams working shifts

To watch you jerking off through your webcam

Maybe we’re living in a simulation
Maybe your lover is a line of code
Maybe your family’s been lying to you since day one
So your circuits don’t overload
But when anxiety strikes
Keeps you up at night
And a chemical imbalance is destroying your life
Take a leaf from my book
Let yourself off the hook
And pretend it’s gonna be alright

Because you know you’ll never make a meaningful difference
Although your virtue is a point of pride
Maybe you’re only so fucking sanctimonious
Cause you’ve got something that you wanna hide
So if you’re feeling confused
About which side to choose
Just get a second opinion that supports your views
‘Cause facts are just an anachronism
Dressed up as the truth

Oh I like drinking beer
Smoking cigarettes
I like eating animals
And I don’t have any regrets
About how they die
No I’d do it myself
Look that chicken in the eye

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from Love Island, released October 28, 2022

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Louis Brennan London, UK

London-based Dubliner Louis Brennan is a singer-songwriter in the folk tradition. His folk however aren’t the field hands and travelling minstrels of yore but the repressed middle managers and ennui-ridden urbanites of late-stage capitalism. They populate tales of bad sex, drunk commutes and interpersonal claustrophobia delivered in Brennan’s cracked baritone, at times embarrassingly intimate ... more

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