Riposte From the Past; Repost From Elsewhere

     . . . . Performed often at CBGB's in the 1980's, when you all didn't know me.

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WHEN THE PLAGUE HITS THE CITYV
Ned Sublette / Constance Ash (c) 1982

When the plague hits the city and the rats take a holiday
There's an underground culture growing down in the subway
When the plague hits your body the fire burns all night long
When the plague hits the city the survivors are spectacularly strong

When the plague hits the city loved ones die on the spot
When the plague hits the city doctors are taken out and shot
When the plague hits the city we fuck with our DNA
When the plague hits the city and the rats take a holiday
But:
Everybody's disaster is somebody's good luck
Everybody's disaster is somebody's good luck

When the plague hits the city money changes hands
Funny things happen to the laws of supply and demand
The rich leave town or seal themselves away (hey hey)
When the plague hits the city and the rats take a holiday

When the plague hits the city some will do very well
There will be class mobility if you have something to sell
And when the plague hits the city the musicians who are still alive
Will have lot of work entertaining those who survive
I read in the paper that:

Everybody's disaster is somebody's good luck
Everybody's disaster is somebody's good luck
And the TV says:

How good for us the plague will be
How good for us the plague will be
How good for us the plague will be

To the people who are Failures of Fools, who let this happen, and now refuse to do a damned thing to try and stop it, and those of you who insist they will not isolate because this is fake news, may the horrors of hell come to you and never leave.