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RIP Erik.
From "This Is Not For Children" (2015, Alternative Tentacles Records). Directed by Jak Kerley of Shibby Pictures, filmed in Asheville, NC in March 2016.

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One of my favorite bands of all time, our schedules happened to line up perfectly where we were able to spend an afternoon shooting this video. The inspiration behind it came from a combination of Violent Soho’s music video for Covered in Chrome, where the singer walks around the house performing the song in one continuous take, and the music video for Green Day’s Redundant, where the band plays with a bunch of random stuff going on in the background.

I’d been dying to do a continuous take music video for a long time. I’ve never used to many lights before, I think there was like 9 or 10 all over the place. Most of them I bought from Lowes then returned the next day. Overall this took us like 5-6 complete takes, and about two of them only making it halfway through. Most people weren’t given a specific direction on what to do, and just improvised something on the spot. Erik and I had no idea what to expect every corner we turned.

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You’ve got squatter envy
As the hours drag on like a day
The desire to toss the banker, landlord, and boss
It was brimming but you pissed it away

[Verse 1]
Better put down the irons and woods
There are chains to be cut
I say it’s time for you to find out what it’s really like
To hit in the rough
Come on, your posh garden parties ain’t foolin’ no one
As you flash your cash clips out
They must weigh a ton
I’m tellin’ you, your life would be so much better
If you just fucked it up

[Chorus]

[Verse 2]
Here’s your new church, blood, body
No god, no priest
Cause you can’t get to heaven
Bustin’ unions, spillin’ jobs in the sea
Let the Ash n’ Palm robber barons send their amens
Then go back to their bunkers, food rotting in bins
Hate the kids, crash the cars, send the checks in
Sweetly singing, “Kill me please.”

[Chorus]

[Bridge]
Rich is poor
Poor is rich
I say bullshit
Gold is grime
Hey, that’s just fine
Cause I want yours and you want mine

[Verse 3]
Now gather around, I got a far-fetched story to spin
Where we sling, swing, drive, dig, cook, clean, teach for the life you live in
And we’ll take the hard knocks if the wages are right
But you’ve shown time and time again, you can’t play nice
I hope the ropes and pistols send you packin’
On the great junk train to paradise

[Chorus]