song: bite the dust
(© 2024 Gudrich/Gudrich)
Released in May 2025.
This protest song helps you vent your frustration with people - those in power and those in general - who are part of the problem rather than trying to be part of the solution. Who have attitudes that actively oppose our values of tolerance and democracy, who only care about themselves, disrespecting the planet and all beings that live here, exploiting everyone and everything for their own purposes. We don't need them to build a better tomorrow...
If Bob Dylan and Greta Thunberg got together with a bad-ass guitarist and a recorder player and wrote a punk-metal ballad - that's what you'd get!
Lyrics
Bite the dust if you're an asshole
Bite the dust or change your mind
We don't need your backwards attitude
Change your ways or say goodbye
If your ego disrespects all beings - goodbye, my friend, goodbye
If your greed disrespects Mother Nature - goodbye, my friend, goodbye
We don't need you to build a new tomorrow
So kiss your influence goodbye
A last goodbye
Ego-centric alpha male
Money-centric idiot
Power hungry politician
narrow-minded bigot
You won't be missed
You won't be missed
Bite the dust if you're an asshole
Bite the dust or change your mind
We don't need your backwards attitude
change your ways or say goodbye
If your hate disrespects diversity - goodbye, my friend, goodbye
We don't need you to build a new tomorrow
So kiss your influence goodbye
A last goodbye
Bite the dust if you're an asshole
Bite the dust or change your mind
We don't need your backwards attitude
change your ways or say goodbye
Bite the dust if you're an asshole
Bite the dust or change your mind
We don't need your backwards attitude
change your ways or say goodbye
Story
In 2024, accomplished hit songwriter and Jazz piano player par excellence Jeff Franzel asked us if we could write a "protest ballad". He thought that this "challenge" might push us out of our "comfort zone". What Jeff didn't know was that we have no comfort zone! We'll write anything from heavy rockers to punk anthems to protest ballads - it's all music, it's all a way of expressing our views on the world and our feelings... So "Bite the Dust (if you're an asshole)" almost wrote itself. Jeff loved it and so do we - it's full of unapologetic attitude and badass guitars! And with things in the world going as they're going right now, this is a much needed song! A song that clearly tells the toxic capitalist patriarchy that they are no longer needed. Goodbye. Go colonize the sun with your fancy space crafts...
Liner notes
vocals - Xavi | rhythm guitars - Xavi | high bass - Xavi | low bass - Sabú | backing vocals - Sabú, Amy, Sam | recorders - Sabú
Recorded at Catfish&Crow Studios, 2025 | Engineered by Sabú Gudrich
â„— Gudrich/Gudrich 2025