Alpha Dog

from Airing from Kolyma by Lilou & John

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"Alpha Dog" is a song about Capitalism and market economy, about personal freedom, about the beauty of industrial society, and about the choices that make up our lives. Ever since reading about Adam Smith’s "The Wealth of Nations" (John always reads the reviews for he is too lazy to read the whole book) he has wanted to write a song that celebrates secular egoism as a driving force in society, since ”without acceptance of egoism, Secularism and Capitalism people stop developing stuff and that makes people poor in the end.” Lilou says she was exhausted after the final recording. ”We had been doing the same song like ten times in the studio, there was always one tiny flaw somewhere, until we decided that this version just had to be good for my voice couldn’t take it anymore. It takes an awful lot of energy to sing and afterwards we had to rest for a while before we could move on. I want it to be perfect and it annoys me when something isn’t exactly the way I want it to be.”

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Rolling down the freeway guided by a star 
Heading for tomorrow the trucker and the bar 
See the morning sunshine the crescent cross the bay
We built this road and baby we are here to stay  

Staying in a motel eating sloppy food 
Staying up til daybreak cos I'm in the mood 
Hit the gas and move your ass or there'll be hell to pay
 We built this road and baby we are here to stay  

My will be done for God is gone and we were born to fight 
We built this land from dust and sand and baby it's our right

  The crimson fields of flowers the factories and smoke 
The coastline and the cities a burger and a coke 
Got the highway fever and I am on my way
 We built this road and baby we are here to stay

  Turn me on at midnight and I will turn the wheel 
This girl is made of chrome and sex and got a mind of steel
 Smell the rubber burning and honey make my day 
We built this road and baby we are here to stay

  My will be done for God is gone and we were born to fight
 We built this land from dust and sand and baby it's our right

  My will be done for God is gone and we were born to fight
 We built this land from dust and sand and baby it's our right

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from Airing from Kolyma, released June 20, 2018

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