Lip Service from Unheard Language by Beltalowda

Nod along to the beat
Of the people’s demands
Squeeze out a crocodile tear
And say you understand
Now shrug your shoulders
And wring your hands
But don’t change a thing
Simply rebrand

Lip service yeah
Lip service yeah
Lip service yeah
Give it to me

Reframe your actions
To fit the narrative
Defend your failures
As nuanced positives
Confess how you’ve learned
Insist that you’ve grown
Then it’s back to business as usual
Until the next time this rerun is shown

Lip service yeah
Lip service yeah
Lip service yeah
Give it to me

Give me studies
Give me commissions
Give me the theater
Of willing submission.

(Solo)

Lip service yeah
Lip service yeah
Lip service yeah
Give it to me

Give me non-binding resolutions
Give me empty proclamations
Bring your dead ears one and all
Down to the town hall
Give me stalling tactics
Give me diversions
Give me the sweet perversion
Of your lip service

• Rock
• indierock
• post-punk
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• punk
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