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Ya Best Mask Up

from Ya Best Mask Up by Lach

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"I'm doing my first tour in three years and I really want to keep my fans, club staff, and myself healthy as best I can. Antifolk has always been about community, we look out for each other. So, I created 'The Mask Game'. Folks will get free numbered masks as they enter, and then throughout my set, I'll raffle off awesome merch. Cool, right? Folks bringing their own masks will also get a number.
Look, we're in strange times, but ignoring the truth has never been my style. We NEED to hang-out, share songs and stories, and be together. But, we also want to stay healthy (and complete the tour!)
To further making the idea of masks a fun, community thing, I redid my song "You Better Word Up" as "You Better Mask Up". PLAY IT LOUD and we'll all sing together at the gigs! Good times ahead! - Love, Lach

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The choice is mine how I wish to focus my thoughts
Just because they made a web doesn't mean I can be caught
And though the shelves are empty, nothing has been bought
Except for the fear of a faceless juggernaut

The planet's high on greed and adrenaline
Where angels fear to tread, the fools come rushing in
Bore us with trump cards declaring your win
Your words are poison disguised as medicine

What will you tell the children
When y tuck em in at night
Tell em that you love them
as you turn out the light

Locked in a room with a glowing exit sign
And the mob inside is running out of time
And I'm screaming in my head, "Just form a line!"
Wondering are they deaf? Are they all blind?

Corporations scramble to look like they care
about things they call consumers, as they eye their shares
and this carousel’s careening down a flight of broken stairs
This is a stick-up, put your hands in the air

What're y gonna tell the children
about their inheritance
sorry kids we blew it
paying for the dance

If I stretch a bit more I can just reach the remote
Turn it all off before they beg for my vote
and sit in the quiet like the silence before the note
Like the nothing that was there before the word heaven wrote

What will you tell the children
When y tuck em in at night
Tell em that you love them
as you turn out the light

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from Ya Best Mask Up, released July 9, 2022
Lach - Vocals, Guitars, Bass, Piano, Organ, Percussion
Produced and Engineered by Lach at EdenB Studios, Edinburgh, Scotland
Artwork by Lach

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Lach Edinburgh, UK

Lach, founder of the Antifolk movement and star of BBC Radio 4's The Lach Chronicles.

‘Beat-punk-unplugged joy!’-The Guardian UK

‘Splendid! Best of it's kind!’- Mojo

‘Incredibly bright, influential, funny, poetic.’-Suzanne Vega

‘Best punk guitarist since Johnny Ramone.’-Billy Ficca of Televis ... more

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