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Even Sharks Can Smile

from Popaganda by A Short Dark Stranger

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My 2016 collaboration with half of the techno-punk geniuses that are Petrol Bastard. A *lot* of sherry was involved in the making of this song...

lyrics

You’ve faced all the facts but you’re still staunchly the same
(Your mind can never be changed)
So you spend your time searching for scapegoats to blame
(Seeking to shift the shame)
A credulous cretin that regurgitates all their lies
(So why should it be a surprise?)
When their vested interests trample you down with the rest
(But don’t you dare protest..)

For it’s not neuroscience – your display of defiance
Is actually an active act of compliance
With perfectly postured career politicians
Who stifle substance and engender submission
(Don’t be swayed by their style!)

Why?!

Even sharks can smile!
Even sharks can smile!
Even sharks can smile!
(Beware!) Even sharks can smile..

Prostrate yourself at the altar of ‘not having a say’
(Whilst baying at ‘Match Of The Day’..)
Let Home Counties Himmlers fritter your freedoms away
(You’re still seething at ‘Match Of The Day’..)
An avalanche of apathy under whose weight we’re crushed
(For whom can we truly trust?)
You think you’ve made a stand? Ha! You’ll usher in the unjust..

You see a supersized ego in Saville Row attire
And all you do is supplicate and admire
In this soundbite age of tabloid government
We think too late to find out what they meant – oh!

(Watch out!) Even sharks can smile!
(That’s right!) Even sharks can smile!
(Oh yes!) Even sharks can smile!
(Beware!) Even sharks can smile!
(Think!) Even sharks can smile!
Even Sharks Can Smile…….

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from Popaganda, released May 16, 2020
Lyrics: A short Dark Stranger. Music: The Mysterious Edgar Shenton & A short Dark Stranger.

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A Short Dark Stranger Leeds, UK

A Leeds based purveyor of pumping power pop!

80s / 90s style throbbing, crashingly catchy synth-pop epics with cathartic, heartfelt, emotionally honest, cynical yet wittily pithy, observational and self deprecatingly amusing lyrics.

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