| Less Than Jake – Malachi Richter's Liquor's Quicker Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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This song is about a Jazz Saxophone player named Malachi Ritscher who committed suicide by dousing himself in gasoline and setting himself on fire to protest the war in 2006. The intro for this song is a piece taken from his suicide note, namely from the first paragraph: "My actions should be self-explanatory, and since in our self-obsessed culture words seldom match the deed, writing a mission statement would seem questionable. So judge me by my actions. Maybe some will be scared enough to wake from their walking dream state - am I therefore a martyr or terrorist? I would prefer to be thought of as a 'spiritual warrior'. Our so-called leaders are the real terrorists in the world today, responsible for more deaths than Osama bin Laden." |
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