The great new Nick Harper album – Lies Lies Lies has a slight political stance. It could be seen as deriding Brexit and Trump.
Good bloody job too.
This is Nobody Likes you – a love song to Donald.
Donald’s father made his fortune with a government grant to clean up an area of New York. He introduced an upmarket property development called Beach Haven. It was an unsavoury project full of applied racism (Blacks were excluded) and what looked like underhand deals – Kaufman wrote. “Trump would be investigated by a U.S. Senate committee in 1954 for profiteering off of public contracts, not least by overestimating his Beach Haven building charges to the tune of US$3.7 million.”
This makes for interesting reading:
Woody Guthrie exposed the obscenity in a song – Old Man Trump.
Now Nick Harper writes about both him and Donald in this new song.
Nobody Likes You – Nick Harper
Daddy was a schooled cold Joe
In his beach haven white as snow
He always came up trumps you know
Keeping those dark devils down below
It’s all cold baby – it’s all cold
I’m not talking about a nuclear war
Or a reason anyone would push the button for
I’m not talking about the end of the world
I’m talking about all the boys and girls
Nobody loves you and you don’t know why
Nobody wants you and it makes you cry
You got hold of some of Daddy’s roll
A modest million or so
Time rolled by and lo and behold
Everybody could be bought and sold
It’s all cold baby – It’s all cold
I’m not talking about a nuclear war
Or a reason anyone would push the button for
I’m not talking about the end of the world
I’m talking about all the boys and the girls
Nobody loves you and you don’t know why
Nobody wants you and it makes you cry
Nobody loves you and you can’t think why
You’ve got it all and it’s all a lie
You’ve got everything and it’s all a lie