We’ve updated our Terms of Use to reflect our new entity name and address. You can review the changes here.
We’ve updated our Terms of Use. You can review the changes here.

The Waffle House Index

from Achilles and the Difference Engine by Swan Chorus

supported by
Larne Peters
Larne Peters thumbnail
/

  • Streaming + Download

    Includes unlimited streaming via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
    Purchasable with gift card

      £1.20 GBP  or more

     

  • Buy the Full Digital Album

  • Compact Disc (CD) + Digital Album

    Comes in a card digipak with artwork bt the band and Peter Dover

    Includes unlimited streaming of Achilles and the Difference Engine via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
    ships out within 3 days

      £12 GBP or more 

     

  • Compact Disc (CD) + Digital Album

    'Achilles and the Difference Engine' cd, and a signed cd copy of our first album 'The Swan Chorus' <only 2 left>

    Includes unlimited streaming of Achilles and the Difference Engine via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
    ships out within 5 days
    edition of 2 

      £16 GBP or more 

     

lyrics

Wait, there's a big new announcement coming
Sit in your chair with your fingers drumming, patiently in time
We'll make cuts to cuts that we cut to ribbons
Beg for the scraps that you might be given, pay for your crime
Look around, up ahead in the dark
That shimmering light at the end of the tunnel
Is the light of an oncoming train

And if you think that you are going down fast
We can make it faster
Better start hoarding the big disaster's coming your way

When we sell off the shit that we said was sacred
Strip Florence Nightingale bare ass naked
Watch us and pray

That we don't set the hounds on the welfare losers
Start a tsunami of wheelchair users
Circling the drain

Lies and damned lies and statistics
They don't understand
Simple minded, foreluck tuggers
Eating out of the palm of your hand

Well we're making the most of the situation
Tear out the heart of a once great nation

To hell with free and fair elections
They don't get to choose.
When your batshit crazy armed militias raise all kinds of hell
We all lose
Au revior Civil Rights, guess you just don't need em'
Burned on the bonfire that some call freedom . . .

FEMA got a system - a chart they like to pull up
And grade those disasters neatly
If they're still selling pancakes
The grid ain't down completely

A twister tossed my trailer 'bout halfway to Australia
Now I'm sat in the IHOP alone
Maybe someday soon I'm gon' get my life back
But I'll take a little syrup to drown my . . .
Drown my short stack

Now the Orange Messiah's immune to scandal
Breitbart and Bannon and Ayn Rand's vandals
Leading the song
With imflamatory headlines and big, bright pictures
Playing to paranoid curtain-twitchers
What could go wrong?

But in the People's Republic of Cafe Nero
Somebody's snowfalke is someone's hero
Proudly surveying the scene
Now that the transgender bathrooms are clean . . .

credits

from Achilles and the Difference Engine, released August 13, 2023

license

all rights reserved

tags

about

Swan Chorus image

Swan Chorus Liverpool, UK

We are a three piece progressive rock band from Liverpool, England

Check our Facebook page for updates and information

If you like the album and the band, please tell your friends

contact / help

Contact Swan Chorus

Streaming and
Download help

Report this track or account

Swan Chorus recommends:

If you like Swan Chorus, you may also like:

Bandcamp Daily  your guide to the world of Bandcamp

On Bandcamp Radio

Featured guests are the golden-voiced Baby Rose and psyche soulsters Brainstory.
listen now