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Shake Hands with the Dragon

from Strip Twister: The Lost 1990 EP (Remastered) by Strip Twister

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SHAKE HANDS WITH THE DRAGON
(words & music by Nate Butler)
When I go to hell, I want a wishing well
New Year’s Day … well, it’s all over the 80s!

On a New Year’s Day, in the land of the dollar sign
We’ve got the Big-Mac brain, from leaving yesterday behind
But in Chinatown, the big beat goes ‘round
And everything they did to bring him, they put down

Shakes hands with the dragon … New Year’s Day
Shake hands with the dragon, if you would – hey!

It seems a perfect way to start a brand new day
But it seems so queer to the people here
As if we got the proof, because we’re a super-power
As if we got the truth? When we gonna face the hour?
Our turn to face up to the dragon … New Year’s Day
Fake hands with the dragon, if you would!

And we got the chance, but we go to bed
We ain’t gonna dance, unless we take a tough stance on the Reds!
Because we’d rather be dead!
Facin’ up to what we’ve done is just the test
And if you face that dragon you had better come prepared to be your best!
When I go to hell, I want a wishing well!

There’s no complacency when spreading our democracy
We got the answers for the biz, and want to show you what freedom is – huh!
But if we got solutions, why do we have such bad pollution?
Georgie, while you play their plans, you ask them how they run their land
What do they do about hunger? What do they do about farms?
What do they do about the population?
Couldn’t do no harm.
What do they do about drugs? What do they do about crime?
What do they do about the homeless?
Don’tcha think that it’s about about time?
Mr. Bush to
Shakes hands with the dragon … New Year’s Day
Shake hands with the dragon, if you would!

credits

from Strip Twister: The Lost 1990 EP (Remastered), released October 17, 2022
Mark Ribera: lead & backing vocals, saxophones
Darren Embry: bass guitar, backing vocals
Perry Hodge: lead guitar, backing vocals (lead vocal on chorus of “Stability”)
Nate Butler: rhythm guitar, keyboards, backing vocals, principal songwriter
Brian Hamada: drums

Originally Recorded at Ken Carlton Recording, Madera CA, on November 18, 1990.
Produced by Todd Suntrapak. Engineered by Ken Carlton.
Newly Re-Mastered by Peter Wolf at WolfSound Audio Engineering, March 2022.

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Nate Butler is an artist, actor, musician, and singer/songwriter from Fresno, California, USA.

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