The Boy Squads: EVIL IS HERE, Side One
All songs written and performed by Lorits and Malthe
Produced and Engineered by
Alistair McCartney
Liner Notes
What’s up! We’re the Boy Squads. We live in Copenhagen. We’re an Anti-Oedipal anti-Fascist decadent anarchist homo no wave band, at least that’s what our Svengali, A.M., tells us. He says our sound is still forming, but that’s okay, because everyone’s aesthetic is in perpetual formation. Send us fan mail to our PO Box which is located in a little corner of our Svengali’s skull:
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SIDE 1
1
Ballad: Massacre (1:16)
Legions of boys
Like bright-eyed dolls
Running away from the massacre
The candy-colored massacre!
Legions of boys
With impossibly red cheeks
Dressed in nothing
But impossibly bright bathing suits
That match their eyes
Running towards the massacre
The candy-colored Massacre!
Must find these boys
In this forest
Must find a way
To comfort… all these boys
2
Everybody Wants to Die (0:42)
Everybody wants to die
‘Cos life’s getting worse
Bring me a boy
Built like a hearse
Everyone wants to die
‘Cos life’s getting
So much worse
3
A Boy Named Saddam (0:56)
I found a boy
Hiding in a spider hole;
So I captured him
And put him on trial
For crimes against humanity;
And I found him guilty
So I executed him a little bit early;
I found a boy…
4
Do the Erase (1:37)
Do the erase
Do the erase
Promise me
You’ll do the erase
Listen to me:
Follow these instructions
Do it, or else!
You can start with my face
Here, take this razor
It’s kind of rusty
But it’ll work eventually
I don’t care how you do it
Just do it for me
Dream something up
Erase yourself first
And then erase me
Quick, quick, before we’re erased!
5
The Boy Squads (1:38)
When the boy squads come
Everyone will line the streets
And welcome us with flowers
When the boy squads come
Life will be violent and orderly
When the boy squads come
I won’t be visible
I will be working behind a desk
Organizing the strategies and movements of
The boy death squads
6
Your Grave (1:43)
There’s a gravedigger waiting for you my love
He has a shovel with your name on it
I don’t mean this figuratively:
Your initials are on the handle
Death destroys the relationship between the figurative and the literal
The gravedigger’s hot
He’s leaning on his shovel
Standing next to a plot
That fits your dimensions exactly
Love destroys the relationship between the figurative and the literal
7
The Gang of Longing (1:24)
In Copenhagen, there is a gang
And it’s called the gang of longing
The gang of longing is the most dangerous gang
In Copenhagen, all gangs are beautiful
But the gang of longing is the most beautiful gang
I took a knife and slit the throat of my longing
But the longing went on, went on
I took a boy scout’s knife and slit the wrists of this longing
But the longing grew strong, grew strong
Run-off Groove Message: The Strategic Adversary is Fascism
Alistair McCartney is the author of two cross-genre novels The Disintegrations (2017) and The End of The World Book (2008), both published with University of Wisconsin Press. The Disintegrations is the winner of The Publishing Triangle’s Ferro-Grumley Award for LGBTQ Fiction and was named one of the best works of fiction by The Seattle Times and Entropy Magazine. TEOTWB was a finalist for the PEN USA Fiction Award and the Publishing Triangle’s Edmund White debut fiction award. Other work has appeared in journals such as Hotel Literary Magazine, 3:AM, Fence, Animal Shelter (Semiotexte), 1913, Five 2 One, XRAY Literary Magazine, Gertrude, SCAB, and Bloom. Originally from Australia, he live in Los Angeles, where he teaches fiction in Antioch University’s MFA program, and directs their undergraduate creative writing concentration.
