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Vocals by A NoMan, G NoMan and Phones Sportsman

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A bad reputation is a good place to start
Throw some paint at a canvas and call it ART.
A good reputation can be easily tarnished
Who says a turd can’t be varnished?

Put a clown in a White House and what do you get?
A world full of lies and deeply in debt
He is a dictator, he’s a man on a mission
And when he’s not dictatin’ he’s “nuclear” fishing

Poison your customers and blame them instead
As the P.R. disaster disturbs your head
Spill oil in the oceans and think of a ruse
Make a clever distraction and hide the news

You could be Florence Nightingale or Mother Theresa
Or think of yourself like every money-grabbing geezer
Fill the world with potential and water and bread
Or pile up a fortune and a hole for a head

A banker can do good or a whole lot of bad
Steal from the poor and make the rich so glad
Fill vaults with diamonds and bitcoin and gold
Ripped-off from the people whose souls they sold

A small act of kindness is a gift from the heart
That sets off a ripple from the very start.
A bad reputation is no place for a friend
A good reputation is no bad place to end


Leftist, rightist, Wolf in a glove
Sheep in an iron-fist, or a planet of love

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from A Bad Reputation is a Good Place to Start, released January 12, 2020
lyrics by Phones Sportsman and A NoMan

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