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Business as Usual feat. Mathas

by Doublethink Prism

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Embodying the twisted mentality of relentless energy company tycoons, Business as Usual is a dark tongue-in-cheek satire of their need for profit over sanity. Can you smell the smoke? Can you SELL the smoke? Picture that meme of doggo former (!) Australian prime-minister Scott Morrison sitting in a dining room on fire holding his beloved piece of coal proclaiming ‘This is fine!’

lyrics

It’s just business as usual

SPLODGE
Check it out: it’s my business plan
Sand blows through Afghanistan and drops diamonds in the palm of my hand
Business as Usual

I sweep my hand across coral reefs, fishes gurgle with disease
I take the resources that I please, bring it all to its wooden knees
Just business as usual

MATHAS
Keep your cloak on, don’t window into yourself too raw
Trust in subordinance, in us your health insured
Warship awkward future, par-for course, whole world recruitment,
rally hordes of living breathing tortured articles to nuisance
Embalmed in apathy, calmed to catalogues.
Pressuring our diamond into epilogue’s just business as usual...

SPLODGE:
You don’t understand the pills you took
to take away the blues I grew,
money trampled underfoot
just business as usual.

MATHAS
Rust-bucket in blue tux, soft sheer of the ku klux,
swill and spit whodunit where the clues run,
like ink quills for the ho-hum, where the sin runners are big guns for the kingdom,
and the king dumb as sin with a trust fund.
My plus ones, they stone face, they only like me for my road case,
bunch of hustling elbows out tussling to catch my bouquet on my big day,
with my big head, brandishing my brand like say a dick smith or a big kev,
but far more of a dickhead.
Nail and hammered in actual. Flag waving like paid ads.
Dripping in affluence. Catch-phrasing the kettle black.
Warped mirrors and smoke bombs. Broad day suckering candy robs.
Open-handed gamble, match-fixing with cattle prods.

Can you smell the smoke?
Better yet... can you sell the smoke?

SPLODGE
I’m a golden haired boy
I’ll sell you back your dreams
Can you hear that iceburg dropping?
Can you hear that iceburg dropping?
This is fine. This is fine. This is fine…

MATHAS
Light em up and set em off!

SPLODGE
Where’s the promise in your eyes?
Where’s the promise in your eyes?!

MATHAS
Lapping round the dribble in the gene pool
Cooler killing bets around the green felt
Blind with envy tirade on parade in cheap jewels
deafen benefit in studious it don’t attract a keen sell
Right?

Can you smell the smoke?
Better yet... can you sell the smoke?

SPLODGE
ALL I SEE IS FIRE
Business as Usual!

credits

released June 22, 2022
Vocals by
Splodge
Mathas

Production by
Alyian

Released by
Stock Records

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Doublethink Prism Perth, Australia

Alyian - Music
Splodge - Words

Formed 2016

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