Official Styx Audio (Studio Version)
Background
Another song without much of a background – I woke up one morning with "Our MLAs" repeating in my head just like "Come sail away" does in this song. Why? I can't say. I wasn't working on anything the night before, nor had I listened to Come Sail Away in a while. It's a mystery 🤷♂️
After a string of sillier songs, this is a return to something more political. Our MLAs have given me a lot of material to work with, so not everything made it into this song, but I did manage to fit in: poor emergency management, valuing the economy over people, inaction on climate targets, infections, heat waves, missing family doctors, continuing/expanding oil/gas extraction, failing to protect old growth forests, crumbling quality of living, and crumbling democracy.
Plus some good jabs 😁
I should also note: there are at least (only?) two MLAs who are not morons, but given that there are currently 87 MLAs in BC, that only amounts to 2.3% of the Legislative Assembly. With perhaps only 2.3% of BC's MLAs doing a good job, I'm okay with the generalizations in this song.
Lyrics
Our failing MLAs They have all ignored our emergencies 'Cause they thought they were free Free to place your life behind the economy We're bored with inaction On climate accords Find some courage to borrow If you need more And you lie, oh how you lie You merry pawns I look at BC Infections and heat waves require urgency Unhappy and mad I think our government's like a deadbeat dad With no help whatsoever We're all exposed And without any doctors We'll decompose Say goodbye to your lifespan They're all morons An obsession with oil wells A lack of old growth trees They must think that we are dopes 'Cause this is what I see, I see Our MLAs, our MLAs, our MLAs have failed BC, it's bad Our MLAs, our MLAs, our MLAs have failed BC Our MLAs, our MLAs, our MLAs have failed BC, sing it! Our MLAs, our MLAs, our MLAs have failed BC [Interlude] Our populace is unwell Democracy likewise Let's give these guys a pink slip Before everybody dies! Sing it! Our MLAs, our MLAs, our MLAs have failed BC, it's bad Our MLAs, our MLAs, our MLAs have failed BC Our MLAs, our MLAs, our MLAs have failed BC Our MLAs, our MLAs, our MLAs have failed BC Our MLAs, our MLAs, our MLAs have failed BC [Begin fadeout] Our MLAs, our MLAs, our MLAs have failed BC Our MLAs, our MLAs, our MLAs have failed BC Our MLAs, our MLAs, our MLAs have failed BC Our MLAs, our MLAs, our MLAs have failed BC Our MLAs, our MLAs, our MLAs have failed BC