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Dirty Poncho
02:17
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I know a girl from Ohio
She comes from Sandusky
She wears a dirty poncho
She’ll make a man believe
She’s got a dirty poncho
Drop dead gorgeous
Blue blood poison
Hot licks in stereo
She lives the City of Angels
She’s an A-list B-Queen
She gets all her culture
From reading Arthur Magazine
She burns at both ends
She’s the queen of the Smell scene
Keeps the party going
With ‘Tussin and Benzedrine
She’s got a dirty poncho
Drop dead gorgeous
Blue blood poison
Hot licks in stereo
Dirty poncho
Drop dead gorgeous
I feeling like pulling a “Curtis”
And hanging it all up
Your dirty poncho
Is using me all up
Yeah, yeah, yeah
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Symptomatic
03:54
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I’m getting ready to buy
All those things
That stare at me
From viewing screens
That look up at me
From glossy pages
And through the doors
Of retail spaces
You might say it’s symptomatic
This clip jammed up my automatic
I’ve heard you say, “that shit it sucks,
It used to be pure but now it’s cut”
I’m getting ready to buy
Aww, I dunno
It hurts up high
And down below
You wanna talk about margins
On coke and fries?
You see, I know the girl who
invented Super Size (yes I do)
You might say it’s symptomatic
Her clip jammed up your automatic
I know you think that shit is sick
But we both know identity’s plastic
Climb aboard your private log
And ride off on that flume
Things that match and some that don’t
Now redecorate your room.
If it’s news to you, it’s news to me
The definition of value:
how many want it if it’s free
Jump rope rhythms on the street get hopped
Sawed-off rhythms from the chart get dropped
Glass-jawed boxers in the ring get popped
Cocaine bundles on the beach wash up
Cocaine bundles on the beach wash up
Glass-jawed boxers in the ring get popped
Sawed-off rhythms from the chart get dropped
Jump rope rhythms on the street get hopped
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Hank IV San Francisco, California
Hank IV's hard-charging and visceral dual-guitar rock punk has been likened to “Crime meets Viletones meets Styrenes punk”
(Z-Gun Magazine) and by WFMU’s DJ Terre T as “a sick combination of Volcano Suns and Blue Cheer and Chain Gang!”
Hank IV is not related to Hank Williams or any of his descendants.
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