Darren Watson - Lyin' Luxon

Darrem Watson - Lyin' Luxon Artist: Darrem Watson Title: Lyin' Luxon Releease: 2024 This is my new single Lyin' Luxon (and his Tobacco Goons). It's a free or name your price download. Please share widely if you dig. NB. If you download this track for ZERO you will be asked to provide an email address. This will be added to The Watsonian Institute, a mailing list you will receive occasional email newsletters from. Feel free to unsubscribe.

This is my new single Lyin' Luxon (and his Tobacco Goons). It's a free or name your price download.
Please share widely if you dig.

NB. If you download this track for ZERO you will be asked to provide an email address. This will be added to The Watsonian Institute, a mailing list you will receive occasional email newsletters from. Feel free to unsubscribe.

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Wellington musician Darren Watson's new single Lyin' Luxon (and his Tobacco Goons) is an upbeat country-blues song about political dishonesty and cowardly 'expediency', giving landlords tax cuts by gutting smokefree legislation, allowing a stupid, ill-informed debate about Te Tiriti o Waitangi - mostly so they can mine and drill wherever the f*** they like, cruelly making the lives of beneficiaries much, much worse against all expert advice, removing subsidies for electric vehicles that made sales of them immediately fall off a cliff, and generally ruling for the benefit of the top end of town. All led by a craven, so-called Christian CEO-type with the vision and charisma of a slater.

lyrics

All we want is a touch of truth

not cue-card words for the polling booth

this ball-head man and his MacDonalds wisdom

selling soap or a new tax system

Lyin’ Luxon

and his tobacco goons

if you smoke his cigarette

you know what you’re gonna get

if you take this man’s advice

well, you don’t think once

so you better think twice

All I want is a room somewhere

where the rent’s not crazy and unfair

this whole damned thing being made much worse

by ol’ seven houses on the public purse

Lyin’ Luxon

and his tobacco goons

if you smoke his cigarette

you know what you’re gonna get

if you take this man’s advice

well, you don’t think once

so you better think twice

We don’t need another demagogue

or the eight percent tail just a’ waggin’ the dog

anyone who won’t stand up for the treaty

sprayin’ ‘round hate like verbal graffiti

Lyin’ Luxon

and his tobacco goons

if you smoke his cigarette

you know what you’re gonna get

if you take this man’s advice

you don’t think once

so you better think twice

credits

Written, performed, recorded, mixed, and mastered by Darren Watson at Lamington Recording, Ngaio, Wellington, Aotearoa. (C)2024 Control/APRA