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Pericles, Pericles, Apollo’s brought Athena to her knees
The plague rages through our city streets
And burials won’t restore our olive trees
Pericles, Pericles, historians shudder at the gnashing of your teeth
The crowded throngs, you’re their prince and their shrink
And the philosophers are out having drinks

The soothsayers say your strategy’s to blame
Why can’t our hoplites go earn some fame?
The enemy that’s out there, bloodlust all inflamed
Is preferable to our waiting game
You’ve run this place for years, built these mighty walls
Conquered all the seas in Athens' name
Now you’ve competition from grifters and scams
The deplorables have found their man

Here, why don’t we let him introduce himself...

Servants and slaves, you should love me I’m the best
I’ve told you as much in my lengthy crows
I’m certainly top dog, proved by firing right and left
Ambidextrous in my shit-for-show
A dumpster fire’s expected, no rest for me until
I’ve drained all the brains from the room
I’m that fat orange fuck with an ass for a mouth
Trophy wives and I’m here in your white living room

Servants and slaves, you should love me I’m the best
Wait, didn’t I already told you so?
My bro-mance with Persia’s emperor seems to be going really great
I’m sure you’re all envious of the debts I owe
It’s time we jettison this democracy that was built
By heroes in a once golden age
Yes I’m the fat orange fuck with an ass for a mouth
Here to cart eighteen more on the taxes that you pay

You’ve worn all the hats, and fought in all the wars
Now you have to leave it to these hordes
Who seem to ignore their own self-interest
Voting misanthropic oxy-heads
But now the time has come to let out your last breath
Here’s hoping you find Hades nice in death
If logic and science can win over the day
Your future will transcend this common grave

If you build your acropolis high
It will fall from a very great height

Pericles, Pericles, the chorus will sing you fast asleep
Your viral breath is shallow and weak
Your last words are written down even as you speak them
For a distant age will have your legacy

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from "A Public Thing" (2022), track released February 15, 2022

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Jay Gavan Kalamazoo, Michigan

Jay Gavan is a musician, songwriter and history teacher who occasionally combines all three, as he does on his latest self-produced album, "A Public Thing" (2022)

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Feb 15, 2022

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