Has it really been a year since elbow greetings, the balcony singers of Italy and the “rise of the Karen's”? The answer is YES😱and to celebrate all the shit we’ve survived, this show’s a throwback to the infancy of FFS! With 3 songs from that time.
The “oh so appropriate” ‘Don’t stand so close to me’ and 2 originals from ‘The Here & Now’ EP - ‘Italy Unbroken’ & ‘Karen’. (Is it me or does it seem like years have past since all this shit happened?). Joined by the always fab Pedro Segundo right back where we started post Australia... 🙏💕
ITALY UNBROKEN
Words & Music by Judith Owen
I heard your song
Across the balconies
Of this renaissance land
Through empty squares
Where families for centuries
Had broken bread and
Drunk the wines from golden vines
In summer sun
A ghost town now
But still you could not hide yourself
In all your ways
Those ancient song from mother’s knee
From sweeter days
They join you now
With so much feeling
With so much meaning
So raise your voices high
And let us know
What history has taught you
Show us please
Your Italy unbroken
And through it all
You will remain the same
Although your hearts undone
You will break bread
And taste the wine in golden sun
And you will sing
In busy streets
Amongst the ghosts of Medici’s and Harlequin
So raise your voices high
And let us know
What history has taught you
Show us please
Your Italy unbroken
KAREN
Words & Music by Judith Owen
Karen wants to scream
Karen wants to shout
Karen wants you all
To know what she’s about
Karen’s very white
Karen’s always right
Karen likes to fight
With every cop who asks her
Why she’s not driving on the right
Karen is yearning for the days
When she was just 16
Cheerleading squad
Since then she just feels robbed of simply everything
She never planned to be
This age and so angry
They flipped the hormone switch, Karen
And you don’t see there’s something so wrong
Karen’s on the brink
Sobbing in the sink
She just broke a nail
And now she’s railing at the world
She’s screaming in her car
Screaming at the man
Crying in the can
Every unhinged moment drains her
Why does no one understand that
Karen is yearning for the days
When she could always get her (own) way
Little mood swings, she could run rings
Around you, that’s what she’ll say
Did anyone tell you no – Karen
Or was it a family show – Karen
You’ve been this way so long Karen
You don’t know right from wrong
Karen’s on the edge
She didn’t take her meds
She stands by everything she said
She won’t back down or play along
Karen’s on attack
Especially if you’re black
She says we’re full of crap
For telling her there’s something wrong
Dog On The Bed Music (ASCAP) admin Pen Music Group Inc.
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