Social and Political Commentaries in Parodies of Song Lyrics

[A Clockwork Violet]

This thread is for song parodies which have been created to make political or social commentary. Some, probably most are humorous and others are any thing but.

The first parody I will post in this thread is not funny in any way. It's meant to be a serious comment on a continuing nightmare. That is the attacks on innocent people, especially the young.
First and most importantly, I want to express my condolences to the families of the victims of these attacks. Also to their friends, the City of Manchester and all of the British people.


The parody in the next post is a commentary on the latest and frightening news in England, however it is at the same time a commentary on Newtown, Aurora, The Pulse Night Club, Bataclan Paris Terror Attacks and so many other terror attacks that have sorrowfully occurred.

I wish these kinds of events would stop happening, but unfortunately just wishing so doesn't make things change.

[A Clockwork Violet]

All the Children - (apologies to Regina Spektor for “All the Rowboats”

All the children in the concert
They keep trying to run away
And the parents' worried faces
Stay contorted and staring at the brave
They'll be crying it’s a huge shame
For forever, forever and a day
All the children in the night club
They keep trying to run away, run away

Hear them screaming French and German
Dutch, American, and Latin
When no one's looking I catch some shrapnel mumbles,
Cold, and send a Chaplin
But the most deadly are the most lonely
God, what’s wrong with those might have beens
In white coffins they keep coming
We’ve forgotten, forgotten how to sing, how to sing

First it's lights out, then they blow up
Little children executed death sentences
Not their own fault for being helpless
There's a price we pay and the consequence
All the theaters, the museums
Here's your ticket, welcome to the tombs
They're just public mausoleums
The ghosts of dead fill every room
But the most deadly are the most lonely
God, what’s wrong with those might have beens
In white coffins they keep coming
We’ve forgotten, forgotten how to sing

They will haunt us it’s such a sad shame
For forever, forever and a day
All the children in the soil waiting
They'll keep trying to run away, run away

First it's lights out, then they blow up
Little children executed death sentences
Not their own fault for being helpless
There's a price we pay and the consequence
All the night clubs, the museums
They will stay there forever and a day
All the children with no explaining
They keep trying to run away, run away
All the children with no explaining
They keep trying to run away, run away

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2CZ8ossU4pc

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[The Pris0ner]

Trump Believes ~ (apologies to The Buzzcocks)

In these times since elections it's not Trump's intention to make things sane
He's looking through mirrors to catch his reflection which's not divine
He's losing control now he'll just have to slow down a thought or two
He don't feel the future and he's not even certain that he gets the past

He believes in American revolution
And he believes in the final solution
He believes in
He believes in
He believes in the shape of things to come
And he believes that he's the chosen one
Yes he believes in
He believes in

When he poisons our system he takes thoughts and twists them out of shape
We're reaching our nadir and we haven't an idea of what to do
I'm painting by numbers and know it's dark colors that fill him in
Trump's not even knowing if he's coming or going, does he end or begin?

Trump believes in the book of revelation
And he believes he's the final salvation
And he believes in
He believes in
He believes he's the absolute truth
And he believes in the work of John Wilkes Booth
Yes Trump believes in
He believes in

There is no love in Trump's world anymore
There is no love in Trump's world anymore

He's a fallen dark angel while envying Savior experience
I'm seeing things clearly but he has quite nearly blown my mind
It's my aim of existence to offer resistance to his spree of crime
Everything is and that is why all will be on the line

Trump believes in negative emotions
And he believes in perfect devotion
He believes in
He believes in
He believes in the stuff on TV ads
He believes in his Russian pal Vlad
And he believes in
He believes in...

There is no love in Trump's world anymore
There is no love in Trump's world anymore

Trump's skippin' through pages of a book that takes ages for the foreword to end
Serial killers with cover concealing other aspects from view
His narcissist motions are just the confusion from lying so fast
His essence of being these feelings he's feeling he just wants them to last

Trump believes it's all about him
And he believes what he believes in
Yes Trump believes in
He believes in
He believes in the web of fate
And he believes in the Hitlerian state
So I'll be leavin'
What Trump believes in...

There is no love in Trump's world anymore
There is no love in Trump's world anymore
There is no love in Trump's world anymore
There is no love in Trump's world anymore
There is no love in Trump's world anymore
There is no love in Trump's world anymore
There is no love in Trump's world anymore
There is no love in Trump's world anymore

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=foSC0rujhwQ

[Jerzylvania]

Tainted Trump/Where Did Our Trust Go ~ (apologies to E. Cobb/Holland–Dozier–Holland)

Sometimes I feel I've got to
Sneak away I've got to
Leak away
From the pain that he drives into the heart of me
The hate they share
Seems it's everywhere
And I've lost my rights
Now I toss and turn I can't sleep at night

Dunce be damned with you (I leak)
Now I'll freak on you
This tainted Trump you've given
They gave you all Intel could give you
Take my fears and that's not nearly all
Oh tainted Trump
Tainted Trump

Now I know I've got to
Sneak away I've got to
Leak away
You don't really want it any more from me
To make things right
You need someone to use that knife
And you'll think love is to pay
But I'm sorry I don't pay that way

Once I ran with you (Iran?)
Now I'll run from you
This tainted Trump you've given
They gave you all Intel could give you
Make my fears and that's not nearly all
Oh tainted Trump
Tainted Trump

Don't judge me please
I cannot stand your way, you SLEAZE!
I hate you cause you hurt us so
Now I'm going to pack your things to go
Tainted Trump, tainted Trump
Tainted Trump, tainted Trump
Touch me baby, tainted Trump
Touch me baby, tainted Trump
Tainted Trump
Tainted Trump
Tainted Trump

Donny, baby, where did our trust go?
Ooh, don't you trust me?
Don't you burn me no more (Donny, baby)?
Ooh, Donny

You came into my life to injure me
With a burning hate
That stings like your pee
And now that your surrounded so helplessly
You know I believe, you wanna pee-pee

Oh, Donny, baby, where did our trust go
Oh, don't you cheat me
Don't you cheat me no more
Oh, Donny, baby, where did our trust go
Oh, don't you cheat me
Don't you cheat me no more

You came into my life to injure me
With a burning hate
That stings like your pee
And now looks your surrounded so helplessly
You know I believe, you wanna pee-pee....

Oh, Donny, baby, where did our trust go
Oh, Donny, baby, don't you cheat me no more
I've got this burnin', burnin', learnin' feelin' downside me
Oooh deep downside me
And it smells so bad

Donny, baby, baby, where did our trust go
Don't you cheat me
Don't you cheat me no more
And now looks your surrounded so helplessly
You know I believe, you wanna pee-pee

Oh, Donny, baby, where did our trust go
Where did our trust go
Where where where
Looks that your surrounded oh so helplessly
You know I believe, that you wanna pee-pee

Donny, where did our trust go
Where did our trust go
Where where where
Donny, Donny, where did our trust go
Oh don't cheat me, don't you wanna pee-pee
I've got this burnin', burnin', learnin' feelin' downside me
Oooh deep downside me
And it smells so bad

Donny
Baby

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7tlCX9SOW5M

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[A Clockwork Violet]

Republican Coloring Book ~ (apologies to The Dead Milkmen)

You've got a Republican coloring book
And you color really swell
But don't color outside the lines
Or Trump will send you to Hell
'Cause Trump hates news
And Trump hates crime
A' but he really hates people
Who color outside his lines

You've got a Republican coloring book
Don't color outside the lines
'Cause if Trump doesn't strike you with lightning
He'll at least make you go blind
Good people go to his penthouse
Bad people will roast in the cellar
But there's a special kind a' Hell
For those who just won't learn his color

Trump is gracious, Trump is good
So let's color in his book
Trump wears silk, Trump wears rayon
He can mend a broken crayon
Trump is honest, but he takes payola
Let's all thank him for our Crayolas!

You got a Republican coloring book!
You got a Republican coloring book!
You got a Republican coloring book!
(ah..oh..oh)
You got a Republican coloring book!
You got a Republican coloring book!
You got a Republican coloring book!
You got a Republican coloring book! (oh..oh..oh.. )

You've got a Republican coloring book
And you color really well
But don't color out side the lines
Or Trump will send you .....to Hell

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pj-GIAACClc

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[The Pris0ner]

Trump Has No Self Control ~ (apologies to Peter Gabriel)

Got to get curfewed
He's so angry all the time
He don't know how to stop
He don't know how to stop

Got to make some tweets
He's so nervous in the night
He don't know how to stop
No, He don't know how to stop
He don't know how to stop
He don't know how to stop

Got to pick up the phone
He will tweet in his slumber
He will tweet to ev'ryone
I know he's gone too far
Much too far he's gone this time
And I don't want to think what he's done
Trump don't know how to stop
No, he don't know how to stop

There are always hidden silencers
Waiting behind his chair
They come out when the post is near
Delete anything removed
I go shaky at the knees
Lights go out, czars come down
Like alarmed Nazis

No self-control
No self-control
No self-control
No self-control
No self-control
No self-control
No self-control
No self-control
No self-control

You know he loves to hurt you
He loves to see your pain
But he don't know how to stop
No, Trump don't know how to stop

Tweet after tweet
Night after night
Covfefe through his reign
Covfefe through his reign
Trump don't know how to stop
Trump don't know how to stop
Trump don't know how to stop
Trump don't know how to stop
No, he don't know how to stop

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3yEcTB2va5E

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[The Pris0ner]

Faking News for Nigel (Farage) - apologies to XTC

We're only faking news for Nigel
We only want what's best for him
We're only faking news for Nigel
Nigel just needs Vlad Putin's hand

And if old Nigel says he's sloppy
He must be sloppy
He must be sloppy
He must be sloppy in his work

We're only faking news for Nigel
He has his future in a British keel
We're only faking news for Nigel
Nigel's whole future is as good as sealed, yeah

And if old Nigel says he's sloppy
He must be sloppy
He must be sloppy
He must be sloppy in his work

Nigel is just outspoken
But he likes to speak
And loves to be spoken to (in his world)
Nigel is sloppy in his work (in his world)
Nigel is sloppy in his work (in his world)

We're only faking news for Nigel
We only want what's best for him
We're only faking news for Nigel
Nigel just needs Vlad Putin's hand

And if old Nigel says he's sloppy
He must be sloppy
He must be sloppy
He must be sloppy in his work

We're only faking news for Nigel
We only want what's best for him
We're only faking news for Nigel
Nigel just needs Vlad Putin's hand

We're only faking news for Nigel
He has his future in a British keel
keel, keel, keel, keel, keel over yeah

We're only faking news for Nigel
Nigel, Nigel, Nigel, Nigel
Nigel, Nigel, Nigel, Nigel
Nigel, Nigel, Nigel, Nigel
Nigel, Nigel, Nigel Farage...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PHTrJGeKhYA

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[Jerzylvania]

Comey Chameleon ~ (apologies to Culture Club)

Is loyalty in your eyes all the day?

If I recorded all your lies, would they play?

I'm a man without convictions

I'm a man who doesn't know

How to sell a crucifixion

You come and go,
You come and go

Comey, Comey, Comey,

Comey, Comey Chameleon

You come and go,
You come and go

Cunning would be easy

If your colors were like my schemes

All golden green

All golden green

Didn't hear your wicked words yesterday

And you used to be so sweet, I heard them say

That duty was an addiction

When you sing your duty is wrong

When you go you're gone forever

You’re fired so long

You’re fired so long

Comey, Comey, Comey 

Comey, Comey Chameleon

You come and go,
You come and go

Cunning would be easy

If your colors were like my schemes

All golden green

All golden green

Every day is psyche survival

You're a loser not my rival

Everyday is psyche survival

You're a loser not my rival

I'm a man without conviction

I'm a man who doesn't know

How to sell a crucifixion

You come and go

You come and go

Comey, Comey, Comey

Comey, Comey Chameleon

You come and go,
You come and go

Cunning would be easy

If your colors were like my schemes

All golden green

All golden green

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d-CfTZiDuNw

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[A Clockwork Violet]

Dollar Signs in His Eyes - (apologies to The Dead Milkmen)

He's been pimping over the powers of his hard on
The tweets can't be but lies
He dropped his Blondie off with jewels
And hung his children on the fake news line to die

He's talking trash 'bout The Wharton school
He's given morphine to poor Sean
You might think he needs to kick their asses
But, no, my friend you're WRONG

Trump cannot see the beauty in some trees
Or in Oxygen that they supply
This should not strike you as a mystery
For he has dollar signs in his eyes
He has dollar signs in his eyes
He has dollar signs in his eyes
He has dollar signs in his eyes

He's smashing Healthcare EPA infections
He does not see the light
He's stalking round and found his hands are small
As if he had insight

Schemes are only clouds
That form and constipate
The sky is a highway for metal birds
And land is real estate

He does not understand his world depends
Upon his history of lies
He walks right by all his old liberal friends
For he has dollar signs in his eyes
He has dollar signs in his eyes
He has dollar signs in his eyes
He has dollar signs in his eyes

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iEbJP32_8Yo

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[Jerzylvania]

No Election ~ (apologies to The Mountain Goats for "No Children")

I hope that our few campaigning friends
Gave up on trying to save us
I hope we come out with a fail-safe plot
To piss off the dumb few that forgave us

I hope the walls I recommended
Fall down beneath their own weight
And I hope she hangs on ...by the neck ...rejected
I know it's already too late
And I hope the graveyard in a pine box from Sears
Lays me face down
And I hope the rising black smoke buries me far away
And I never come back to meltdown ...again ...in my life

I know I'll lie
And tell everyone these were the good times
And I hope she dies
I hope you all die

I hope she cuts herself shaving her pussy
I hope it bleeds all day long
Our friends say it's darkest before the sun rises
We're pretty sure they're all wrong

I hope it stays dark forever
I hope the worst isn't over
And I hope you sink before I do
And I hope Vlad's gonna come over

And I hope when you think of Trump years down the line
You can't find one good thing to say
And I'd hope that if I found the strength to get out
You'd stay the hell out of my way

I am drowning
There's no Donald Trump Land
You're all going down with me
Hand in miserable hand

And I hope you die
I hope we all die

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wRP6egIEABk

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[A Clockwork Violet]

Presidents Don't Cry ~ (apologies to Fergie)

Da da da da
The smell of thin skin lingers on me now
You're probably on your flight back to Comeytown
Lie helter skelter its your own protection, baby
Worship yourself and vent on
Garrity, tweets, vulgarity

I hope you know, I hope you know
That this means nothing coming from you
It's personal, myself and I
I've got some calling you out to do
And I'm gonna miss you like a child misses their spankin'
But we've got to get a move on with the Vice
It's time to be President now
And Presidents don't cry

Don't cry
Don't cry
Don't cry

The Green Mile I'm walking
I must go alone
I must take the baby steps till it's full blown, full blown
Fairy tales don't always have a happy ending, do they?
And I foresee the dark ahead if you stay

I hope you know, I hope you know
That this means nothing coming from you
It's personal, myself and I
I've got some calling you out to do
And I'm gonna miss you like a child misses their spanking
But we've got to get a move on with the Vice
It's time to be President now
And Presidents don't cry

Like the little cellmate in the jail yard
He'll steal cash and Mastercards
I'll be your best friend, and you'll be mine
Bigtime crime
Yes, you can hold up banks if you want to
'Cause I want to scold whores too
We'll be cellmates and lovers, and share our secret worlds
But it's time for me to go home
It's getting late and dark outside
Worship myself and vent on
Garrity, tweets, vulgarity

I hope you know, I hope you know
That this means nothing coming from you
It's personal, myself and I
I've got some calling you out to do
And I'm gonna miss you like a child misses their spankin'
But we've got to get a move on with the Vice
It's time to be President now
And Presidents don't cry

Don't cry
Don't cry
Don't cry

La da da da da da

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5CVY2tV98Ic

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[The Pris0ner]

Hillary ~ (apologies to The Buoys for "Timothy")

Trapped at the time the lead caved in
And everyone knows the only ones left
Were Trump and Vlad and Jim
Fake News broke through and set Trump free
The only one left to tell the tale
Was Jim Comey

Hillary, Hillary
Emails lost did you know?
Hillary, Hillary
God, why don't you know?

Angry as hell, yo trick or treat
And Trump said that he would sell his soul
For these men wearing sheets
Megan's enough to bleed for two
And Trump said to me, "Rosie's a pig
And then there's Bill with you"

Hillary, Hillary
Fake News f#cking 'round you
Hillary, Hillary
God, what did we do?

Vlad must have hacked in just around then
'Cause the very next thing that I could see
Was this night of Hell never end
Then Russia was sick as it could be
And Jim Comey never got around
To helping Hillary

Hillary, Hillary
Fake News messing with you
Hillary, Hillary
God, what don't we know?

Hillary, Hillary, Hillary...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DGNdvKvbxYQ

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[A Clockwork Violet]

My condolence to the friends and family of Heather Heyer.
May her death not be in vain.
In her memory...


The Statue Told Me Lies - (with apologies to... They Might Be Giants)

The statue told me lies (lies)
The statue told me lies (lies)
Confederate of granite sent a beam into our eyes

The statue made them die (die)
The statue made them die (die)
It took her life, it killed her, and it turned me horrified

The stone, it called to me
(and now I see sick things the stone has shown to me)
A rock that spoke sad words
(an animated mineral, sh!t can be heard)

And though I once preferred a human being's company
They pale before the piece of sh!t that towers over me

The statue told me lies (lies)
The statue told me lies (lies)
The truth is why the people tore down all those hateful guys

The statue blinds their eyes (eyes)
The statue blinds their eyes (eyes)
My throat refrains assuredness as they're washing out my eyes

The stone, still called to me
(and now I see bad things the stone has shown to me)
A rock that spoke bad words
(an animated mineral, sh!t can be heard)

And as the screaming fake news bullsh!t media fill the air
The evidence will vanish from the TV which you stare

And what they found was fewer statues standing where the statue told me lies
And what they found was fewer statues standing where the statue told me lies

And now it is your turn
(your turn to clear the stone and then your turn to learn)
The stone, will lie to you
(you must refuse to do the things it tells you to)

And as the screaming fake news bullsh!t media fill the air
The evidence will vanish from the TV which you stare

And what they found was just a damn few statues standing where the statue told me lies
And what they'll find is just a damn few statues standing where... the statue told us lies

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mrc9siok3IU
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