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Cain and the Fireboys (Demo)

by Dachshund

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This is a full-blooded (and bloody!) demo of a song which should end up finding a place on the third Dachshund studio LP, hopefully due late 2021. A fantastical fever-dream of an amoral world going crazy over a charismatic misanthrope. Or perhaps, merely a reflection of actual American events since 2016? This demo was a solo effort by Dachshund's Mazus Graves, but is being released here under the Dachshund moniker, as a preview of what's yet to come.

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"Nothing fun ever happens here," he said,
striking a match and igniting his brother
as we gathered near the gas-cans,
smoking and laughing as the flames grew higher

He held a razor like a paintbrush,
cutting the truth, raw and bleeding, in the bellies of swine
Our homeroom teacher fell to his knees,
praising the curve and the cut of the line! Said,

(Woah) "You better look out for this one!
(Yeah!) Cuz he's a killer for sure!"

Nothing cool at the car-park, so he
fashioned a piece made of meathooks and teen!
It struck a nerve with the Paris Review!
It had a "compelling aesthetic principle," well,

(Hmmm) And all the mothers across the land
(Yeah) brought their babies to... touch his hand!
(Oh) He became the "special man,"
(Yeah) And we were the F I R E B R A N D !!!

From ten or twenty dustbowl towns to
Maybe a hundred, a thousand, or more
They were fuckin' in the streets!
They were paintin' in blood!
They were callin' out his name!

Soon they were chewin' off their own hands and feet!
They were -- they were trampling each other to please us!
We brought the madness first-class coast-to-coast!
Like The Beatles, we were bigger than Jesus!

(Oh) How to measure a mind like that?
Always a step ahead, a font of fashion --
signing his name with a blood-red passion! --
And that piggy was rich and fat!
Violence is a song from the heart!
Art is murder, and murder is art!

"Nothing cool ever happens here," he said.
We were lyin' in his bed, all warm and numbered.
"Nothing cool ever happens here," he said,
and pulled a gun to his head -- Ah!

What a beautiful bang! (Bang, bang!)
His finest work!
A masterpiece!
We started singing his name!

What a beautiful bang! (Bang, bang!)
His finest work!
A masterpiece!
We started singing his name!
Oh, Cain! Oh, Cain!
Oh, we love you, man!

credits

released January 17, 2021
Written and recorded in the last few months of 2020 by Mazus Graves.
Mixed and mastered by Mazus on 1/6/2021.

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Dachshund is a progressively-minded rock band hailing from Oklahoma, the gothic-conservative heart of the midwest. We smuggle art-rock ideas into pop-songs, delighting in subtle subversions of the mainstream.

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