Name: The Crime
Duration: P00H01M54S
Description: I imagine it might be difficult or disheartening to spend a career in public service only to have a narcissist despot end up being your boss. The Crime is a grateful prayer to our government employees. I’m asking them to give no quarter to tyrants.

The Crime

by Owen FitzGerald

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I imagine it might be difficult or disheartening to spend a career in public service only to have a narcissist despot end up being your boss. The Crime is a grateful prayer to our government employees. I’m asking them to give no quarter to tyrants.

lyrics

God bless the bureaucrats
The suits one step back
From the arc of the spotlight’s powerful sweep.

God act like rebar
And steel the taupe backbones
Of career bureaucrats; nourish them please.

God put kind people
In the paths of the bureaucrats -
A free cup of coffee when they least expect.

God grace the brains
Of our careful, brave bureaucrats
Keeping the wheels greased behind these rich idiots.

God grant mischievous
Hearts to the bureaucrats.
Make their hands quick like good tableside magic.

Give a good poker face
To our honest bureaucrats.
Help them lie straight in the eyes of The Boss.

A shining brass guillotine
Sits in the breakroom
A post-it note reads: prototype office chair.

The clever last bureaucrat
Remarks to The Boss,
“Yeah, it also reclines just pull that lever there.”

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released September 18, 2020
Drums - Daniel Hall
Vocals - Owen FitzGerald
Acoustic guitar - Owen FitzGerald
Electric guitar - Owen FitzGerald
Bass - Owen FitzGerald

Written and produced by Owen FitzGerald
Recorded at Nightsound Studios in Carrboro, NC
Engineered by Chris Wimberly and Glenn Schwartz
Mixed by Chris Wimberly and Owen FitzGerald
Mastered by Saman Khoujinian

Sleepy Cat Records
www.sleepycatrec.com/scr-008-1-crime

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Owen FitzGerald Raleigh, North Carolina

Southern Gothic alt-folk from central NC.

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