Partisan and Kompromat

All the things that I do lack

Cling to your network, straight and strong

Belies the lies that done some wrong

But you’re the sunshine party over principle (that roams thread bare)

Yes, you’re the sunshine party over principle

As you slouch towards the sea lake

While you lick your sweet swampy plaything towards Bethlehem

Talking Heads fall truly flat

Travesty while courts are packed

Can’t wake from this full nightmare

Vacuous, Vicious tweets can’t bare

But you’re the sunshine party over principle as you draw red lines

Yes, you’re the sunshine party over principle

As you slouch towards the sea lake

While you lick your sweet swampy plaything towards Bethlehem

It’s the fear that stays near that

Dictates why you appear so

Crippled in such deeds you play

Don’t fiddle while I burn away today

Just peddle wares where life is bleak

Four walls are scrolled to be the peak

Partisan and Kompromat

Windfall spree with public money flat

Dismantle all the goodness done

Pressing lies one by one

Cause you’re the sunshine party over principle, there’s no limit how low you’ll go

Yes, you’re the sunshine party over principle

As you slouch towards the sea lake

While you lick your sweet swampy plaything to Bethlehem

Ben wrote this song in a fit of anger directed at the contemporary political situation in the U.S.  He was inspired by W.B. Yates poem “The Second Coming” (with a nod to Joan Didion) to lament the rise of a beastly anti-christ supported and encouraged by a feckless political party that makes the pilgrimage to a swampy Mar a Lago as an alternative (or precursor?) to slouching towards Bethlehem.  Although this was written in 2018, it was still relevant in 2021 with the seeming passing of the guard.