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Whoppertunity

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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WHOPPERtunity
There I stood at the gates of Forevermore,
Left just a shell of me to burn.
Looking back at all the things that I’d done wrong
With so much left to learn. ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Then my mother held my hand, she was there to reassure,
Those warm feelings of home.
We had also fought each other as brothers in the Civil War,
When I had never felt so cold.

But I’m being offered a giant Whoppertunity
Life-changing, self-effacing Golden Whoppertunity

I can do it all over as a saint or an alibi,
a flower, a butterfly, a beautiful sacrifice.
But WHAT IF just to learn, I have to be a Thunderstorm
a scorpion or painful thorn, a pious Inquisitor?

Then I saw electric lights of violet that spoke to me,
Your story MUST be told.
I have a path that I can choose! BUT …Thanks - to - you, free will…
That’s never how it goes . . . ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Can I not just stay here and embrace the afterglow…
Those warm feelings of home.
What is this compelling me to improve on what I’d done before?
The wicked rests no more…

Whoppertunity

Let’s move towards bliss . . . as gentle as a pacifist
Experience loves tender kiss …I need a Chrysalis
BUT - If life gets Bitter . . . I might become a killer…
Like Dahmer or the Ripper or even Adolf Hitler …..(heil,heil,heil)
BREAK

Life makes you Bitter . . . It turns out some killers…
Like Dahmer, the Ripper and even Adolf Hitler …..
So let’s have a do-over… spark off a new ember –
Reboot a new 4ever – Now HOW will I remember?

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from Rise Above It All, released October 27, 2022
10.Whoppertunity (6:46) ~ Words & Music (Cory 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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