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Tragic Facewash

from Rise Above It All by Skookum

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    SKOOKUM - RISE ABOVE IT ALL – Press Release
    On March 20, 2020, Skookum was ready to play a show at the Roxy nightclub in Vancouver Canada to kick off one last gig before taking 15 new songs into the studio the very next month. But then the world shut down….What came next was months of uncertainty and the band wasn’t sure when or if they could go in and record what they now present as “Rise Above it All”.

    This collection of 10 songs mostly written well before 2020, but in a strange twist of fate, captures the times we live now. A musical journey perfectly encompassing the strange, challenging, and often bleak period of history we are currently experiencing, but always with an underlying current of hope.

    Our most mature and emotional album to date, but always with the patented Skookum tongue in cheek humour our fans have come to expect .

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Tragic Facewash
CHORUS
This tragic facewash... it started small...
built up thru the years 'til it consumed as all...
this madness...like a hand that always moves.....
but everyone (all in good time) will pay their dues

Illiterate at the test .... They said it’s for the best...
The hive needs worker bees. Bees Knees to pleez an unhappy queen
The kids have been run thru.... technocracy red white and blue
We'll need the test of time... to see whether we make it thru

CHORUS
This tragic facewash... it started small...
built up thru the years 'til it consumed as all...
this madness...like a hand that always moves.....
but everyone (all in good time) will pay their dues

democracy's a mess..... or is it just a test?
environment is clean.... thru a dirty oil machine
Economics are such a gas… only 1% will pass
A consumer’s gotta live …. To a landfill we just give and give

The Mother She Love’s US ALL
But The Mother Protects HER own

Can We survive when hot winds blow… or when we have to move below
See the forest for the trees … Well Too late! We’ve swatted all the bees
I no longer need a tan…. Crispy chicken skin turns into sand
Where we live is all we have… Only greedy fatcats could have planned…

CHORUS

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from Rise Above It All, released October 27, 2022
07.Tragic Facewash (2:24) ~ Words & Music (C. Van Ieperen)

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‘Skookum’ is slang for “Big n’ tough”, impressive 'n' cool; but its origin is a Pacific Northwest term for Sasquatch, or fearsome and swift. With powerful riffs, big grooves & a walloping vocal punch they sound Skookum: A scrappy groovin’ band from Vancouver, not afraid to slow down once in a while. Making great music is serious business for this group who claim creativity & laughs as their mantra ... more

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