Feed ’Em to the (Linden) Lions
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Stephen Malkmus’s eulogy to small town America uses a high school football game between the intrepid Lions from little Linden, CA, and the Redbirds from Malkmus’s own Stockton as a metaphor for the slow decline of towns like the former, as people migrate away to the bigger towns and cities.
Feed ’Em to the (Linden) Lions Lyrics
Every building same height
Every street a straight line
Team colors yellow and blue
Cheerlead single file
Perfect smiles unaffected
And you won't forget
Our colors blue
No you won't forget it
Twenty miles westward
Home of the Redbirds
Team colors crimson blue
Open up your purses
For the boys to reimburse us
With a goal line stand on fourth and two
And that goal line stand
Ha!
Summer's dry and fallow
Reservoirs are shallow
Spillways unexposed
It's never been inspected
When the government's elected
And the fields will turn to yellow, too
Now the fields will turn...