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Hire a Thug [Live at CBGB]

from The Blood of the Kid by Ritual Tension

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Hire a Thug [Live at CBGB]


Well I guess, yes I guess, every dog has his day, every man gets his flash in the pan.
Isn’t that right Mister? One hour of power.
You get one hour of power. And it feels so good.
Tell you what you do:

Hire a thug, hire a menace,
Cut the heat, terrorize your tenants.
Murder is your favorite cadence.
Sipping cognac, pondering penance.

Pondering your penance, sit in your armchair and ruminate on the daily take.
Think about all the rubes who would gladly bend over backwards for you, or forward for that matter.
Hey reap what you sow, they say, but your lawyer will be sure to find a loophole in that one.
Meanwhile you’re making it hand over fist, hand over fist, hand over fist.

But personally, however:

I wanna go to Tahiti, live on a little ship.
I’m gonna go to Madagascar, gonna live on a little beach!
I’m gonna go down to Bali, gonna live on a little boat.
The life I once lived, completely remote.

You know what? Guys like you get only one hour.
You get one hour of power.
Power power power power DIE DIE!

So one day some little rat’s gonna come along and find your shallow grave
And he’s gonna piss on it, and it’s gonna sound like this:
ssssssssssssssssssssssssss
missssssssster

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from The Blood of the Kid, released May 17, 1987

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Ritual Tension began in 1983 in NY as part of the downtown scene. After a long hiatus the band reappeared in 2018 and released a new album in 2020.


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