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LYRICS FROM PAVEMENT'S SLANTED AND ENCHANTED THAT SOUND LIKE THEY COULD BE SLOGANS SHOUTED BY PROTESTERS DURING THE REPUBLICAN NATIONAL CONVENTION SPEECHES.
By C. Mason Wells

"Two states—we want two states."

"You think it's easy, but you're wrong."

"Can you treat it like an oil well?"

"Lies and betrayals!"

"All the things we had before you sold us out and took it all."

"We've got a license to live."

"We'll put our labels down, favors down."

"Everything's ending here."

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LYRICS FROM PAVEMENT'S SLANTED AND ENCHANTED THAT SOUND LIKE THEY BELONGED IN PRESIDENT BUSH'S CONVENTION ACCEPTANCE SPEECH.
By C. Mason Wells

"Come join us in a prayer."

"What does it mean, a mistake or two, if it's the kind of mistakes no one can trace?"

"I've got one holy life to give."

"I am not one-half of the problem and it's not my fault."

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GUIDED BY VOICES SONG TITLES THAT COULD DOUBLE AS CHAPTER HEADINGS IN AL QAEDA TRAINING MANUALS.
By Paul Grellong

A Contest Featuring Human Beings
A Good Circuitry Soldier
Adverse Wind
Color of My Blade
Driving in the U.S. of A.
Dying to Try This
Evil Speakers
Fly Into Ashes
For Liberty
Fountain of Youth
Get to Know the Ropes
Gonna Never Have to Die
Harboring Exiles
Hit
I Am a Scientist
If We Wait
Isolation Drills
It's Easy
Knock 'Em Flyin'
Land of Danger
Let's Go! (To War)
Look, It's Baseball
Messenger
Mix Up the Satellite
My Big Day
My Kind of Soldier
Navigating Flood Regions
None of Them Any Good
North American Vampires
Not Behind the Fighter Jet
Now to War
Of Mites and Men
Our Value of Luxury
Pretty Bombs
Red Gas Circle
Sabotage
Satellite
Scissors
Skills Like This
Soul Flyers
Static Airplane Jive
Striped White Jets
Systems Crash
Take to the Sky
Teenage FBI
The Enemy
The Flying Party
The Perfect Life
The Singing Razorblade
To Remake the Young Flyer
Trashed Aircraft
Underground Initiations
Underwater Explosions
United
Universal Truths and Cycles
We've Got Airplanes
Why Did You Land?
You're Not an Airplane

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John Moe's Pop-Song Correspondences, Volume IV By John Moe

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