Good Evening!

So I guess you all just went crazy along with everybody else this tuesday? Huh?
Did you watch the news when Barack Obama got closer and closer to the seat? Over here we didn’t. We sleep at that time – or at least we used to. This election wrote TV history. Everybody I met the next day was red eyed and/or hung-over from the party. I really felt miserable AND boring. But I did get up at 5 in time to watch both candidates speak. I was woken up by my wife saying something like: ‘Get up dear, the winner is about to speak in a moment.’ After Obama, McCain got a re-run.

And thursday everything went back to normal.

Friday my wife got back in the picture. Why not just re-arrange the Mitt Romney song from Week 6 for an Obama special? I must admit I liked the idea. First of all because I think the Mitt Romney song was a true moment of brilliance from yours truly. Modesty? WHAT? Second because the melody has some positive qualities that suits a winner as well as a looser. And third, because the Mitt Romeny song suggests Barack Obama would be the winner. And I wrote that in February! How about that? CNN, when are you gonna call?

I guess this is the end of One Weekly Gun’s election coverage. Now it’s time for the news!

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Introducing: Captain Woman on the Piano and vocals.

Barack Obama
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Dearest friends, I have come here with an answer
To the question you posed, when you founded this land
We will march from the boiles and the cancer
Led by he, who is half afro-american

There’s a comfort in the winner
We will substitute the lame
Though a handsome beginner,
Not a part of the game.
With the strength in the weekness, this is not a perfect man
Yet the feeling we get, we understand.

On the screen is a picture of Obama
With his hands in the air and a smile on his face.
By the wall is Alaska’s docudrama
Salty tears on the suit melts the colours away.

We will grasp our common future
And we’ll shake each others hands.
We will fight for the outcome
And we’ll try to understand
How the world can be changed just by our hopes and dreams.
It’s no more as absurd as it seemed.

We salute to the coming generations
who will learn from our times and the struggles we see
We’ll let burn the stained and torn pages
Of the book from yesterday
Write tomorrow’s victory

Tuesday is the day!

Everybody’s talking about the so-called ‘Bradley-effect’.
In 1982 the afro-american Tom Bradley lost the election for governor of California despite being way ahead in the polls. The reason being that many decided to vote against him for racial issues once they stood in the booth. Right now the question – a bit constructed if you ask me – is whether or not someting like this could happen to our Messiah Barack Obama?

This song is about this question and in a broader sense the doubt within the american people. Could the nasty factor lead to a surprise? I doubt it, but I admit, that often in a time of decision many stupid thoughts go through my head. Most of the time they do not have an impact, but who could know.

Obama said he’s not gonna be the perfect president. That’s fine, but we can’t afford to many imperfect voters. Screw the outcome, just don’t let race decide.

God Bless the Dubious
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It’s in the writing on the wall
It’s in the thoughts of big and small
and every conversation made

This race will rise above the truth
but things could inside the booth
God bless the dubious and me

With every turn
that the road takes in a day
we’ll live and learn
The world turns just one way

It’s there right where it always was
A song that somehow says it all
God bless the dubious and me

With every turn
that the road takes in a day
we’ll live and learn
The world turns the same way

God bless the woman in a suit
and then the man that could stay put
God bless the bones inside the dog

God bless the righteous and the wrong
God bless the priest who wears a thong
God bless the dubious and me

Hi!

As McCain gets a bit more behind in the polls, his campaign gets nastier. Some suggest that he can no longer afford the positive attidude. It’s time to get real.

Palin and McCain both tried to expose, what they call the ‘real’ Obama. That is, his hidden ugly side that interacts with terrorists etc. In an attempt to change focus from today’s america to Obama’s past, they have tried to raise doubt about his person. I personally think that this plan is kinda stupid and leaves everyone with the impression of the GOP as a political party without a message.

And then, this happened. THAT ONE! Does this miniature semantic mistake from McCain in the middle of the second debate in fact show us the real McCain? One can only guess. I think not – but I know that the strategy has backfired. As many other strategies from the McCain/Palin camp.

To the nerds: YES, It’s sounds like and is inspired by a well known Beatles song!

That One!

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That one
turned this thing upside down
and that shouldn’t be allowed
so I’ll dig myself a hole in the ground

That one
is not playing it fair
It’s soon getting to where
I will call someone who cares

Tell me something real for once
or are you just hanging out?
Tell me something real for once
or are you just fooling around?

That one
got me feeling alone
with a red cup to go
so I’ll find myself a new crop to sew

Hi all.

This week’s episode deals with the American economy once again. It got worse.
Tonight the Senate will vote for the rescue plan one more time.
McCain predicts catastrophe if it’s turned down by the Senate.

The song is called Take me to the Meeting on Time, and is in a style I never tried before.
See if I got away with it.

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Take me to the Meeting on Time

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I gotta couple of things to do before bed
And a whole lotta swallowing pain
I gotta a grain in my eye that won’t go away
And I’m beginning to feel insane

On the right hand sinde is pole and a kiss
on the cheek of some old lady’s shirt
I gotta run ’till I hide nowhere possible in sight
and on my shoulder sits a vulture with a flirt

Take me to the meeting on time

To much making it through can kill a lawyer or two
and too much drinking won’t suffice to the end
I gotta pacemaker beepin’ and a woman who’s weeping
I have a whole lotta time to spend

When the pressure get’s too much I start clinging to my crotch
and grabbing things from the closets in my room
In the dark I wear a mask and in the day time I am dead
You gotta get me up in time for the moon

Take me to the meeting on time

Hi there

The staggering economy is the inspiration for this week’s song.
I have absolutely nothing intelligent to say about the crisis and the forthcoming difficulties for the world. In stead I wrote a song only mildly connected with this topic.
It’s called ‘Go to go down to the River’. I hope you enjoy.

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Got to go down to the River:

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Got to go down to the river
the rain’s raining down on me
Got to go down to the rail road tracks

Got to go down to the river
the rain’s raining down on me
Got to go down to the rail road tracks

Me and the others, we drifted away
from where once were.
So they say that we fell down on our backs.

Hi everybody.

I just came back from a quick visit to Seattle and the Bumbershoot Festival. It was really nice and what FANTASTIC people there!! I had a really good time chatting to people at the festival. Sometimes we europeans think that we are all alone – we certainly have some good pals over there! Cheers!

Well, apart from the festival and visiting historic landmarks as the house where Kurt Cobain shot himself one major thing had an impact on me. Well two actually – counting Obamas speech at the democratic convention in Denver that is. The appearance of Sarah Palin. The govenor from Alaska, and now crown princess of McCains potential chair in the oval office. WOW! What a gal! Yihaa!

And what a fantastic moron she is. She held a very special speech, when she was revealed as the vice presidential candidate. I made a song about, what it sounded like in my ears.

Pro-Fight
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It’s funnier to be a vice president
in a republican government
than to have a teenage girl who is pregnant
singin’ ooh-la-di-lah
singin’ ooh-la-di-lah

We’re gonna rid the streets of every fag
And send every healthy boy away to Iraq
This is how we will relieve this country’s burdened back
singin’ ooh-la-di-lah
singin’ ooh-la-di-lah

Confess to the choir
Confess to the status quo
Repeat the mantra the resides within
The blockbuster devil is a big black sin

Confess to the maker
Confess every microscope
The truth lies in babies that have not yet been born
The net beneath Darwin is about to be torn

The rural Alaska has got it right
Pro-choice is substituted with a Pro-fight
In school you will learn about intelligent design
And that kingdom comes from a bold decline

Confess to the choir
Confess to the status quo
Repeat the mantra the resides within
The blockbuster devil is a big black sin

Confess to the maker
Confess every microscope
The truth lies in babies that have not yet been born
The net beneath Darwin is about to be torn

Hi.

This is episode 16 of One Weekly Gun.

It’s really beginning to take form this project. 16 smashing songs are already on the page. If this is your first time here, go check out all the other posts and songs here. Don’t forget to comment if you are happy, angry og something else.

These last few weeks there has been a lot of discussion about China and the Olympics 2008. Therefore I thought it was time to cover the mess in music. Also check out the song about Dalai Lama a few weeks back.

It became a very angry and hostile song – towards China. It’s important for me to say, that I haven’t got anything against the chinese people og culture. Only the governments bizzarre and childish behaviour.

The song deals also with the apathic and cooperative nature of the western region.

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We will happily sedate you.
Just sit back, enjoy the scene.
We’ll show you, that there’s nothing we can’t do.
We are a proud machine.

Here there are noone to complain to.
We don’t think much of human lifes.
We know we are the best – compared to the west.
You don’t seem to mind.

We just want everyone to start to think about us
as the new potential, as someone special.
We hold the ancient traditions and history in our soul.
That’s right soul – we’ve got one.

Excuse me Sir – my weak bladder.
I think, I will have to pee your pants.
Your smile won’t leave, when I sneeze in your sleave.
That’s what I like about you.

One on one we are not powerful.
But our weapons are in the bank.
Think of your export, before you draw your sword.
Don’t forget who to thank.

Why the hell should I set free, the ones who criticized me.
I know what’s best for us in the new west.
So swallow your tactics and tell me what you see.
Just don’t look back. The future is at our feet.

HELLO!

This is One Weekly Gun – again.
Who would have thought I would make number ten? It’s an anniversary.And it was bound to happen. A song about George Bush.

The master of dumb news.

This week we saw him tap dance, and be as happy as ever. Only to veto a bill barring CIA from using special methods of torture (or very rough means of interrogation). a few days later. I’m usually not showing off my stands on issues in my songs, but this one will make an exeption. I think Bush is an idiot – but really who doesn’t?

Yessir, I Can Boogie
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I’m a good old-fashioned asshole from the northern hemisphere
I work hard to bother everyone, but still a handful cheer.
When it comes to ending torture at my dear Guantanamo,
I’ll respect your vague opinions, but my answer will be NO!

I was voted the best candidate with whom to share a beer,
and then Michael Moore and Europea started spreading fear.
I’m really just a social boy from redneck bourgeoisis.
I have learned you can’t please everyone – I’ll just please me.

And Sir, I can boogie
Yessir, I can boogie
Yessir, I can boogie
Yeah, yeah, yeah.

I don’t care what you do, as long as they are kept passive.
That we shouldn’t do what’s necessary would be quite naive.
It’s a long way to Cuba from the porch of my ranch.
Beyond my horizon, you can have a carte blanche.

And Sir, I can boogie
Yessir, I can boogie
Yessir, I can boogie
Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Hey One Weekly Gun Freaks!

This week’s song is about Iran’s project of enriching uranium.

It’s rather abstract and weird. It’s the story of a fugitive being pulled over by allied troops, when suddenly some plant explodes. I’m from Denmark, where we are scared to death of nuclear reactors. And with good reason. They’re scary in many ways.

There’s a Glow
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So you ran
to Iran
from Afghanistan
and got caught up in the middle.

When they ask, you tell them, you are not a soldier
You are just carrying the weapons you got a hold of.

Think again.
Honest men don’t get pulled over and searched,
just because they aren’t shaved.

You gotta point out all the friends you have been seeing.
You dig a hole for a whole human being.
And suddenly the odd thing happens.

All the buildings have survived,
and the outside is inside.
There’s a glow

I can smell my hair and nails,
and my colour has changed.
There’s a glow

”On the course
Get it fixed.
If you catch my drift, you can look right through them”

”We’re making electricity, not warfare.
It’s only for ourselves, no selling it to anyone.”
And when you turn, you see the the thing coming.

All the buildings have survived,
and the outside is inside.
There’s a glow

It’s my door and it’s my key
I’m no longer being me.
There’s a glow

Pheew, this turns out to be more stressful than I planned.

This weeks episode features the problems of garbage removal in Naples, Italy. Apparently the local gangs are controlling and prolonging the conflict for financial reasons. Who would have thought, that garbage can turn to gold?

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People have asked me if the One Weekly Gun episodes comes out on a regular day of the week. My answer: ‘No’. So check back as often as you can, and you might be in for the weekly premiere any day.
- OWG

Why Should We Take Out The Trash
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From my window I can see,
what once used to be
the finest looking view in the Napoli.

Now it’s a view that kills
The ocean and the hills
are covered with one million peoples’ nigthly spills.

You think I should call the cops
You might think this is their job
But the cops are in the mob,
and the mob won’t mop it up.

To your neighbours, next of kin:
”Don’t expect an empty bin.”
Leave your longings on the porch for the dogs.

On the hood of my old car
are the remains of a cigar.
There are hairs in the sink
and used diapers in my drink.

Mr. Prodi send more cash.
Why should we take out the trash?
Merry Christmas, smelly new year too.