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MARLON BRANDO

from 9 LEVELS by rich gulag

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dedicated to the wannabe gangster types

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Marlon Brando

There’s no point acting like you’re Marlon Brando now
You are not Al Pacino you are not chairman Mao

Bogart was a gangster
he ruled the silver screen
Angels have dirty faces
when there’s nothing to keep clean
Cagney was the bad guy
always acting very mean
And Tony sang soprano
And caused a fucking scene
You ain’t in the fucking mafia
You are not crip or blood
You are not the king or don
Of your crappy neighbourhood
So maybe close your mouth
as your words are heading south
It’s writing cheques that you can’t cash
You’re signing yourself out

Pretending you’re a tough man
And you claim your alpha male
Said you’d beat some poor guy up
When you actually broke a nail
Always talking football
calling women tarts or birds
Your attitude to life these days
is bordering on absurd
Borderline sociopath
Munchausen by default
Next you’ll be craving attention
And feeding babies salt
Your image is projected
Just like the great old oz
Take care your curtains
Not pulled back
By that nosey little dog

Choose your own adventure
Like a game of d&d
Pretending to be hard and mean
Does little good to me
A life of toxic input
is very hard to beat
But if I can do it then so can you
You’ll find if you just seek
The roles were told
to be and do
Are never in place
for me or you
Just an agenda
the privileged few
better their lives
on the back of you
You ain’t scarface
You’re a fucking cock/a-roach
Behave yourself silly bloke

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from 9 LEVELS, released June 1, 2023
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Living in Nottingham also guitarist for anarcho punk band pedagree skum, Activistas and the black light mutants always anti fascist.

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