Name: Moral Blight
Duration: P00H04M04S
Description: A re-write and new recording of "Urban Blight," a song I originally wrote to describe the erstwhile hippies of the Sixties who became Yuppies during the Reagan era. The new lyrics now describe them as having shed all their peace-and-love sentiments in favor of "Q-inspired fantasies" in the Trump cult.

Moral Blight

from PUSHBUTTON ROMANCE by Rich Arithmetic

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A re-write and new recording of "Urban Blight," a song I originally wrote to describe the erstwhile hippies of the Sixties who became Yuppies during the Reagan era. The new lyrics now describe them as having shed all their peace-and-love sentiments in favor of "Q-inspired fantasies" in the Trump cult.

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MORAL BLIGHT
by Richard Horton © Hortones, BMI
(previously released as URBAN BLIGHT from the eponymous album Point No Point [Optional Art, 1988])

Changing scenes:
I see your blue-line flags and—
Memes obscene: peace signs changed to:
“Don’t you “tread on me”
By bitter Boomers in their Eve
(And I want to--)

REFRAIN:
Run a-way (I want to)
Run a-way (I want to)
Run a-way
From your moral blight

Pristine machines: it hurts to see your life in
Old magazines: visions of a time of hope and
Utopian dreams: peace was just a slogan away
(And I want to--)

(REFRAIN)

Serving soup lines in a slum
You were doing your best to try to right some wrongs
Placed a flower in a rifle bore
You were doing your best to try to stop a war

And I’ll laugh, laugh – at naivete
But I’ll cry, cry—‘cause it’s gone away
I think I’ll laugh, laugh – at what it represents
But I’ll cry, cry – ‘cause your love’s long-spent

A world fact-free: I see’ your Q-inspired
Fantasies: bombast-built, requiring no
Expertise: and you say it’s Reality
(and I want to—)

(REFRAIN)

Laugh, laugh
Cry, cry
Laugh, laugh
Cry, cry

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from PUSHBUTTON ROMANCE, released February 23, 2024
LANCE MORGAN: Lead & Backing Vocals
RICH ARITHMETIC: Lead & Backing Vocals, Guitars, Bass, Drum programming

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Rich Arithmetic Bellingham, Washington

Rich Arithmetic serves up power pop, psych-pop, and folk-meets-surf-and-sand harmonies that "eliminate the gaps between the ‘60s, ‘80s and the 2020's" - Steve Stav, stevestav.com

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