All songs © W.D. Neely
On the subject of attrition.
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Dick’s first day at his new job. Expectations are high.
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A selection from the National Security Council Songbook. Updated frequently.
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An anti-draft song set during the Civil War era.
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An escapist fantasy set in the tropics.
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A rural reverie. Musings of an urban exile in deepest Brooklyn.
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Be advised: our indiscretions and miscalculations are preserved forever in cyberspace.
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Whom the gods would destroy, they first make expendable.
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Version 2.0 of this perennial favorite: enhancements and bug fixes.
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A lullaby for our noncommittal zeitgeist.
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All God’s children run a little bit late.
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We’re all a bit Götterdämmerung-out.
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Biding her time. Plotting her comeback.
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A good-old-fashioned protest song. There is a demand for this sort of thing these days.
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Memo to the boss: Might be time to retrofit your brand.
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On the futility of trying to dodge your destiny.
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Come down from your cloud, and say it out loud.
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Dubito Ergo Sum: (I doubt, therefore I am).
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What boredom sounds like.
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How we can profit from the misfortunes of others.
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The case against deferred gratification.
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Love is like a toothache: Pearly whites as white as snow, but those gums have got to go.
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In praise of self-restraint. But let’s not go overboard.
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Anticipating the loss of a loved one.
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An apocryphal gospel song; one more secondhand account from an unreliable narrator.
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In defense of a maligned generation.
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Submitted to Al Gore’s people for consideration as a campaign song in 2000. They declined but who knows if it might have tipped the scales?
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French may be the language of love, but German is definitely the language of angst.
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Till the trumpet calls, my dear.
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How are you gonna prove it?
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A rare instrumental from Left Field.
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Smitten.
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Prompted by Ronald Reagan’s initial assault on the safety net that began more than 30 years ago. For some reason this song manages to stay current…
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Optimism misplaced.
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On trying to swim clear of the wreckage.
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