"Alternate Life" genre: Power Pop
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	Everybody wants an alternative. Don't you? Maybe just the freedom to be a blind follower of whatever. Nixon WAS a crook. He had protesters roughed up and beaten up if he saw them from the White House. What a maroon! Fuck this shit, play the damn song, thanks.
	CD: Pop Go! The Breetles   Label: Shuss/No Fault
	Story Behind the Song There is an old U.P.I. photo showing a "typical American housewife" and her baby watching the McCarthy hearings on TV in 1953. The photo ran in syndicated newspapers all across the country. Mrs. Marie Breetveld plays the part of the mom as "theArtistFormerlyKnown AsBreet" contemplated how to use the event in a future pop song. Future CD cover photo? Lyrics ALTERNATE LIFE (c. breetveld) c1992 I was a punk in 1955 they called us beatniks keeping un-dead poets alive the dharma bums and Keroac in the cold war years on bongo drums - the coffeehouse guy and Tricky Dick was learning how to play "interfere" and as the "red" hunts heated up personal freedom got a black eye (chorus) but the trends they keep repeating as your friends you keep reheating all the bulletins in the news become the bullets for the ones that choose alternate life I was a punk in 1968 they called us Hippies, man flower children on purple haze we grew up on the Beatles and died in VietNam and wondered where the flowers had gone all the love-ins in the parks overshadowed by Kent State and as the TV cameras rolled personal freedom got it with a gun but the trends they keep repeating we pretend...we just keep breathing all the pictures that you see at night designed to mis-inform and deny alternate life I was a punk in 19hundred78 they called us PUNKS death and trouble was my middle name we hung at Bleeker Street and Bowery we discovered EVERYBODY and all this with a leather peace sign and through the 80s and the 90s everybody's almost equal but the strategy Republican: personal freedom hit from behind (repeat chorus) but the trends they keep repeating as we mend we take a beating all the bulletins in the news give individuality abuse well well well trends, there's just no knowing where the trends will keep on going all the countries in civil war the basic thing that people fight it for: alternate life. published by Breet Music (BMI) performed by The Breetles

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