My Meddling Kids (Hallelujah Sexy)

Track four on Finding $D, Luke solo; every song on the LP was written, recorded, mixed, and mastered in a single day (May 2017), remastered 2018. Luke wrote it after passing a freeway overpass banner reading Repent! Believe in Jesus, which became the seed for a piece of cult-gospel satire. He broke a guitar string during the solo and kept it on the recording.

The song builds a predatory church from scratch. The banner’s Repent! Believe in Jesus curdles fast into I’ll slit their throat / no sympathy: public piety and private cruelty in four lines. The welcome (you’re now our special friend / your body sure will please us) is recruitment as predation, and the revival chorus runs on a daddy/father/teacher stack, hallelujah sexy… so divine!, a Leonard Cohen cadence twisted out of shape. The control doctrine sells permanence as sweet stability and dresses polygamous cult math as a lovely trinity.

Then the outro yanks the mask off, turning the whole sermon into a villain caught red-handed, and the title lands. The parenthetical (Joshu’s dog?) nods to a collaborator while smuggling in a Zen koan.

Same debut lab as What a Velma What a Night and My Friend, Scoobert, a comic frame thrown over real horror before the $WAMI$ lore dump. Leads into Damned, and pairs with Friend (FEiN’s remake of My Friend, Scoobert) as religious and political dread in different registers.

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Repent! Believe in Jesus
He is the one for me
As for the non-believers,
I'll slit their throat
No sympathy

I am so glad you joined us
You're now our special friend
Your body sure will please us

Hallelujah sexy
Teacher, what is right?
You can me father
Daddy if you like
Call out to God
Then he can see
All of His power and his glory
Hallelujah sexy
So divine!

This is your life forever
Oh sweet stability
I am your humble shepherd
So shut your mouth and
Walk with me

Each day I'll add another
But don't feel jealousy
I'll team you up together
We'll make a lovely trinity

Hallelujah sexy
Teacher, what is right?
You can me father
Daddy if you like
Call out to God
Then he can see
All of His power and his glory
Hallelujah sexy
So divine!

Repent! Believe in Jesus

Hallelujah sexy
Teacher, what is right?
You can me father
Daddy if you like
Call out to God
Then he can see
All of His power and his glory
Hallelujah sexy
So divine!

Repent! Believe in Jesus
Repent! Believe in Jesus
Repent! Believe in Jesus
Repent! Believe in Jesus

Scoobert Doobert DOOOOOOOO
And I would've gotten away with it too
If it weren't for those meddling kids
And their dog

(Joshu's dog?)