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Westboro Baptist Church - SXSW Song of the Day
The South by Southwest film, interactive, and music fest is just a few weeks around the corner and LAist couldn't be more excited to attend and participate. Yours truly will be speaking on a panel, LAist will be throwing a concert at a great club, and we will cover the hell out of the fest in a way you've never seen done ever.
Unless your dreams are really pretty.
SXSW music has over 1,000 bands signed up and one of the cool things they do is provide a way to sample most of the artists through technology called MP3. We downloaded all 3+ gigs of music and we've been doing the cursory surveillance from a distance but recently we've been digging deeper when something catches our eye - and ear.
The opening lyric of "Westboro Baptist Church" by I Can Lick Any Sonofabitch in the House got our attention by using consonation and repetition while demanding us to "Fuck Fred Phelps and the Westboro Baptist Church."
Sounding like something off an old Camper Van Beethoven album, we are then told to make love to several other men of the cloth, including Anaheim's own Benny Hinn (holla!). But hearing what appears to be a southern gentlemen requesting that have relations with our current president of the United States while a harmonica wails, is a challenge to the notion that there are so-called Red States any longer who will blindly follow whatever we think they're going to follow.
Yes this song is a few years old (from 2004's Menace), but it's on the current collection from SXSW and the band is going to play at this year's festival, so if you wanna sing along, the lyrics are right after the jump.
"Westboro Baptist Church" by I Can Lick Any Sonofabitch in the House
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Fuck Fred Phelps and the Westboro Baptist Church
Fuck Fred Phelps and the Westboro Baptist Church
Fuck him long and hard until his rectum hurts
Fuck Fred Phelps and the Westboro Baptist Church
Come on ya'll let's fuck Pat Robertson
'Cuz for me you know he's got no Christian love
He took all my grandma's money, gave it to the 700 Club
Come on ya'll let's fuck Pat Robertson
Come on ya'll let's fuck ol' Benny Hinn
Come on ya'll let's fuck that born again
He claims to be a faith healer, but he's just a charlatan
Come on ya'll let's fuck ol' Benny Hinn
Come on ya'll let's talk about the President
Everything that comes out of his mouth is a fucking lie
He prays to a god that hates his guts, then sends young boys to die
Come on ya'll let's fuck the President
Now you born agains don't waste your prayers on me
Cuz' the good lord knows I've already been saved
I just pray that I live long enough to take a shit on Fred Phelp's grave
Fuck Fred Phelps and the Westboro Baptist Church
Fuck Fred Phelps and the Westboro Baptist Church
Fuck him 'til his ass is raw and sore
Now if God hates fags, you asshole, I'm sure he hates you more
Fuck Fred Phelps and the Westboro Baptist Church
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