Song of the Day 8/15: Lou Reed, “Dirt”
I think I found the perfect song for the moment. From Lou Reed’s 1978 LP “Street Hassle.” It was reportedly written about his ex-manager, Steve Katz, but it’s an uncannily accurate description of a certain ex-president currently indicted on 91 counts of various felonies.
Your current troubles, and you know they’ll get much worse
I hope you know how much I enjoyed them
You’re a pig of a person, there’s a justice in this world
Hey, how about this?
Your lack of conscience and your lack of morality
Well, more and more people know all about it
Do you remember that song by a dude named Bobby Fuller?
It went like this:
I fought the law and the law won
I fought the law and the law won
We sat around the other night, me and the guys,
Trying to find the right word
That would best fit and describe you and people like you
That no principle has touched, no principles baptized
How about that?
Who’d eat shit and say it tasted good
If there was some money in it for him
Hey, you remember that song by this guy from Texas
Whose name was Bobby Fuller?
I’ll sing it for you, it went like this:
I fought the law and the law won
I fought the law and the law won
You’re just dirt
You’re just dirt
The only word for you is dirt
That’s the only word that hurt, you’re just dirt
That’s all you’re worth – cheap, cheap dirt
You know they call it cheap, cheap, cheap, cheap, uptown dirt
Wow! I’ve never heard that before. If it could be licensed, I would think it would be a no-brainer to overlay the final stanza on a video of TFG waddling around, posted to billboards with his face, and slapped on bumper stickers, etc. F the high-road, “dirt” sums it up.