OCCO - UGLEEWYDZ (lyric video)

"UGLEEWYDZ" is the first song on my album “ROLL OUT THE FOG!” It sets the stage for what’s to come on the record.

i got inspired by a video on @Channel5YouTube , forget which one.. but in one clip Andrew (the journalist) in standing in the middle two angry crowds of people, separated on either side by crowd control barriers. each side of the fence had its particular political point of view about a recent national incident, different than the one across from them. both side snarled and yelled, hurled insults and generally were rabid and disgusted of the other side.

the song details a gloomy outlook on protests and revolutions. with such disparate views, how can people unite under a common mission? the ending of the song abruptly ends the last chorus, bringing in the voice of the government/institutions who harshly stomp out the protest going on in the song world, as they do and have done in ours.

the ugly weeds are our politicians and the media, but politicians/media personalities see rioters/protestors as the ugly weeds. i say that there are ugly weeds within all of us that we must pull out, or else we risk infighting and doom ourselves to eternal conflict. the enemy lurks deeper than we can possibly imagine.

credits:
Bradley Gagne - @sentientbrad - prod, rec, mix, brass
Mat Leffler-Schulman - @mobtownstudios - master
me - everything else lol

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LYRICS - UGLEEWYDZ

I’ve surfed the crowd
I’ve seen them shouting
I’ve heard the cries and all the lies
But they’re aroused
On either side
Their tongues are firing
They sling shot every word
To stay divided
The gossip slurred
And egos hounding
A seismic change
A tidal wave
They’re on the prowl
They crave this
Non-stop devouring
They tow the line to
Hold the power

I believe what I want to believe
I trust in what I know
I made my mind up long ago

Your secret's out
People flooding your cold streets
Your weakness found
People pull out these ugly weeds

I watch the news
And taste the fable
They closed the deals
And paid out deep below the table
I combed the lice
From all the labels
‘Cause everyone is branded
Death to cradle

I believe what I want to believe
I trust in the little I know
I made my mind up long ago

Your secret's out
People flooding your cold streets
Your weakness found
People pull out these ugly weeds

Your secret's out
People flooding your cold streets
Your weakness found
People pull out these ugly weeds

Roll out the fog
Play the same old stories
Send in the dogs
Sniff out the megaphoning
Keeping the cause alive
Abandon your friends
Disguising as humanz