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Mediocre Jokers

from Tasty Waves by The Safes

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    THIS IS THE ELECTRIC BLUE VERSION: Fresh and hot out of the garage rock’n’roll oven that is The Safes comes the newest addition to their glimmering discography Tasty Waves. The Safes deliver another winner with a weird batch of lyrics sure to make you laugh, think, wonder, agree, cringe and scream HELL YEAH as they somehow simultaneously make the hair stand on the back of your neck. For the uninitiated, they pack the punch of Stiff Records stalwarts (Nick Lowe, Dave Edmunds) lyrically with hints of Zombies, Big Star and Guided by Voices, musically. Tasty Waves is a musical and lyrical hang ten complete with wipeouts and endless full tunnel runs top to bottom. 125 Electric Blue, digital download card, full color insert and lyrics sheet!

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lyrics

"Mediocre Jokers"
Music and Lyrics written by Frankie O'Malley

All you mediocre jokers from the hate brigade
Alcoholic super soakers wear the greenish shade
On your coats of envy that aren’t ever gonna fade
You can’t do it for yourself so you just rain on our parade

You see of course
only the mouth of this gift horse
oh but your blind to its rich source
The potential to help yourself in its force

And we even tried to help you but it’s never good enough
When a person can’t say thank you is when good luck becomes tough
And we only get a blank you bumbling a bogus bluff
Can we break this piggy bank?
You’re keeping track of all this stuff

You see of course
only the mouth of this gift horse
oh but your blind to its rich source
The potential to help yourself in its force




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from Tasty Waves, track released September 8, 2017

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