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lyrics

Let’s speak in riddles wrapped in
mysteries  
He’s like a skin-disease  
Watch Nero fiddle, hear the fire-
brigade 
It is already that late 

Watch that goon  
He’s way out of tune
Watch what he’s doing
On a road to ruin

Ruin
Ruin
Ruin
Ruin

He spills his drivel to the nth degree 
Fake news, real bombs, and rewritten
histor-

Reee reee reee reee
Raaa raaa raaa raaa
Kremlin Gremlin
Da da da da da da da da daaa

He’s like a skin-disease 
He’s drenched with antifreeze
Adds fuel to the flames
Enters the hall of shames

Here’s the new czar, aloof, a bizarre
spoof  
This madman’s move is to skirt and
hurt the truth 
Like a dull fiddler on a hot tin roof 
Hell-bent for finding a pudding in the
proof 

Rooo rooo rooo rooo
Raaa raaa raaa raaa
Kremlin Gremlin
Da da da da daaa 

In case you wonder, something to
ponder
Before we go… asunder
What’s the word? Destroy, I heard
There’s no riddle, just one sick
Fiddle (Fiddle, Fiddle)
Fiddle (Fiddle, Fiddle)
Fiddle

Diddle (diddle, diddle)
Diddle (diddle, diddle)
Kremlim Gremlin diddle (diddle, diddle)
Rooo rooo rooo rooo
Raaa raaa raaa raaa
Kremlin Gremlin
Da da da da daaa

He’s like a skin-disease
He’s drenched with antifreeze
Adds fuel to the flames

Enters the hall of shames

credits

from Kremlin Gremlin (A Dull Fiddler) / Some Few Facts (And One False One) About Birds (Birds Are Real Dub Mix), released December 2, 2022
G.W. Sok: Vocals
Bill Wolter: Guitars
Melne Murphy: Bass, backing vocals
Moe Staiano, Drums, guitar, backing vocals.
Recorded between 2021/2022 in Oakland, Alameda, and San Francisco, California.
Sok’s vocals recorded in Amsterdam, Nederland, 2022.

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Masterminded by Sleepytime Gorilla Museum's Moe Staiano, Surplus 1980 is a whip-smart musical collective from Oakland, CA. Taking cues from the angular punk bands of the 1980s, Surplus 1980 fuses a fierce, muscular attack with experimental out-jazz and couples that with Staiano's playful lyrics, updating the angular rhythms of post-punk's old guard to a modern-day soundtrack of uneasy listening. ... more

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