Venture Capitalist / Barrage Balloon

from Automaton Isles by Dan Whitley & The Passerines

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[Venture Capitalist:]

Have you found your calling?
Or are you just stalling?
What were you thinking?
Spending now drinking

But what's the use of working when there is no work to do?
Drop out and save the world
Dropout to spare us all

Float away in your big balloon
Bomb the little children
Flypast your perfect house of cards
Burst your little bubble

The child catcher's coming with his little red trailer
What can you do but trail her?
It will not happen [?]
There were no monsters in the car park

What were you thinking?
Little capitalist boy
What were you drinking?
Little terrorist boy

[Barrage Balloon:]

I'll take you for a ride
Let's go and see the fireworks
As the planes come crashing down
Come and ride my balloon
We'll fly past the moon
(It's a barrage balloon)
And I'll take you to see the pretty lights of the city
I'll take you anywhere that you wanna go and where do you want to go to next
This balloon is full of hot air
And one day this balloon will burst
It's a barrage balloon

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from Automaton Isles, released July 27, 2022
Guitars, bass, vocals, percussion, metronome, office, warping, imitation ukulele, drones, and drum machines by Dan Whitley.

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