The Happy Prole
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Album Featuring “Birds”
- #1Our Happiness is Guaranteed
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- #2I Never Want to See You Again
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- #3The Poisoned Well
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- #4The Happy Prole
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- #5Sea Shanty
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- #6It’s Hard to Turn Me On
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- #7Nothing from Nothing
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- #8Tomorrow You’ll Hide
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- #9California
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- #10You Fucked Yourself
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- #11Ape Self Prevails in Me Still
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- #12Please Do
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- #13I Give Up
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- #14Birds
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- #15Repetition
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- #16Only Success Can Fail Me Now
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The Happy Prole is told from the perspective of a class-conscious, dissatisfied yet ultimately powerless worker navigating an exploitative capitalist society, suppressing their contempt for the system to hold their own life together. The word “prole” is short for “proletarian”, a term used in Marxis...
The Happy Prole Lyrics
[Verse 1: Sam Coomes]
Everday
We earn our meager pay
But it takes its toll
To play the happy prole
[Verse 2: Sam Coomes]
They buy your labor
Try to steal your soul
Bite the bullet
Hold your tongue
And play the happy prole
[Verse 3: Sam Coomes]
Paranoid and tired
Quit before you're fired
But they've got you in the hole
So you play the happy prole
[Chorus: Sam Coomes and Janet Weiss]
You need the money
So you've got to play it dumb
But if you play it long enough
It's just what you'll become
[Verse 4: Sam Coomes]
Pay your rent
Pay your bills
Pay the doctor for your pills
So you can work another day
As life slips away
The Happy Prole Q&A
Who wrote The Happy Prole's ?
The Happy Prole was written by Sam Coomes.
When did Quasi release The Happy Prole?
Quasi released The Happy Prole on Tue Apr 21 1998.