T. Hakola-words & music, vocals, guitars, organ... <br />Laureline Prod'homme-bass, Tatiana Mladenovitch-drums & backing vocals <br />info/contact: www.theohakola.com <br /><br />IN A SAUNA YOU SWEAT <br /><br />Blood is red <br />Snow is white <br />Water is wet <br />And truth is light <br /><br />Elvis is dead <br />Day follows night <br />In a sauna you sweat <br />Fraught with trauma you might <br /><br />Truth is or it isn’t and can hardly be plural <br />The point is to find it brooking no demurral <br />To cut through the sh*t and corner the conclusive <br />Let truth be our holy writ, no matter how elusive <br /><br />Calling up Orwell to draw the line on fiction <br />On fantasy, fables, and wormy superstition <br />On pie in the sky and pious illusions <br />Oh Lord, give us science and cogent conclusions <br /><br />Some roses are red <br />Some violets are blue <br />Some friends call me Ted <br />And one calls me Minou <br /><br />The ice caps are melting and sea levels rising <br />And Trump gets way too much free advertising <br /><br />Jerk’s a callow cretin a-cheatin’ and polarizing <br />And the debasement of his base is mesmerizing <br /><br />Here’s me getting up on my high horse <br />There’s you lost in a drawn-out divorce <br />From fact-based reality as you’re disagreeing <br />With what your eyes tell you they are now seeing <br /><br />With what your ears say has been said <br />And what your brain would know if it weren’t dead <br /><br />Some states are red <br />Others true blue <br />But now our daily bread <br />Is spread with lies in orange hue <br /><br />There were not “fine people on both sides” in Charlottesville <br />And if he ever gets his dumbass wall, Mexico won’t pay the bill <br />A Pinocchio of the people and a dumbass Putin puppet <br />He misleads like he breathes and his dumbass faithful love it <br />
