Meat Puppets: Swimming In A Lake Of Fire
Steve Roeser, Goldmine, 28 April 1995
"Where do bad folks go when they die?
They don't go to heaven where the angels fly
They go down to the lake of fire and fry
Won't see 'em again till the fourth of July"
– lyrics from 'Lake Of Fire' by Curt Kirkwood, from the album Meat Puppets II, SST Records, 1983
Total word count of piece: 19593
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