« Whirlwind», la colère de Jesse Welles

Jessie Wheels Originaire de l’Arkansas, le songwriter folk, s’est imposé par ses chansons politiques écrites à chaud, enregistrées sous les lignes électriques qui traversent les bois de son État natal. Avec « Whirlwind», il poursuit cette veine urgente et viscérale : guitare acoustique en bandoulière, harmonica en éclats, colère lucide en étendard. Héritier revendiqué de Woody Guthrie et de Bob Dylan, Welles transforme l’actualité en matière brute, captée presque en temps réel. « Whirlwind » n’est pas qu’une chanson — c’est un instant saisi dans la tempête, un commentaire musical qui refuse de détourner le regard.

"Whirlwind"

It's a democratic hoax
Folks
Have you even seen the DOW?
People wanna talk about this Jeffrey
Ain't he dead now?
Anyhow
They're saying
The 401k's are slaying*
OK
Then none of us even have them
Enjoy the last dregs of a nation
While the future lays abandoned in the S&P
500 a race **
I'm sure the NASDAQ's
Just fantastic
I'm gonna need a bag for all this bullshit
Give me paper
Give me plastic
The rules are elastic
I'll have what they're having while they're wreaking havoc
The Floridian Lobotomy
Hey Marco [Rubio], Susie [Wiles], Dr. Oz and Pat Bondi
No one has each other's backs
Like the parasitic class
You gotta admire the fire, the passion
They have to cover each others' ass

Closer and closer to non-disclosure
Disclosure the law
Just a fence for the elite to jump over
No one said that life was fair
But does it have to be this evil?
Diabolical
Illogical
It'll leave you feeling feeble

It ain't 5-dimensional chess***
It dementia doing its best
Ring a ding-ding
You got the mad king
And he's mean
When he's depressed

Lame duck run amok
Things ain't looking up
Spend the rest of the term
Trying to make a buck
He'll be in Qatar in no time
Sublime
With no tie
Just ties to Russia
Kompromat and salt life
And pushing it to Kushner

New Gaza's on the desk
If you wanna make everything great again, you've gotta pave over the dead
Here lies no one
Here lies something to forget
Cosmic justice is a whirlwind
It's a promise, not a threat 

Avec les petites notes culturelles de bas de page :

* A 401(k) is a retirement savings plan that lets you invest a portion of each paycheck before taxes are deducted depending on the type of contributions made. Because of 401(k) tax advantages, the federal government imposes some restrictions about when you can withdraw your 401(k) contributions

** When a company is removed from the S&P 500, it typically faces immediate selling pressure from index funds and ETFs that need to adjust their holdings. This adjustment can cause the company's stock price to decline.

*** What does 5D chess mean in slang? 5D chess : An extremely complicated strategy involving deception and ulterior motives, especially in politics.