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- BAQ
BAQ (pronounced like Bach, but better) is a Philadelphia-based musician originally from Minnesota. With a degree in film writing and a masters in musical theater writing, BAQ creates music that intends to break apart the roles and norms of American society concerning things like gender, sexuality, and consumerism. Their alt/synth-pop sound hopes to create songs with enough pop appeal to entertain any listener, but enough intrigue to leave a hopefully meaningful impression.
Their musical inspirations come from David Bowie, ABBA, Billy Joel, Jeremy Messersmith, Oliver, and The Eurovision Song Contest. Other than music, BAQ has written and directed original plays off-Broadway, graphic novels, screenplays, and the Eurovision-related publication “EuroQuision.”
I’m BAQ, and I’m an American citizen. My role in the ongoing suffering of innocent people is neither oppressor or oppressed; I am complicit — uniquely horrible in its own way. Every American, whether they’re aware of it or not, has contributed in some way to the very crisis we are pleading comes to an end. A responsibility that comes from this is unlearning the ways our habitual consumerism and participation in capitalism funds the death and oppression of Palestinians. Many people around the world (not just Americans) spend their lives thinking of reasons to remove themselves from meaningful change or action. How many excuses can we make? How much longer do we think our problems on this side of the planet possibly outweigh the suffering we’ve allowed to happen? And to some, the solution is to watch it all burn — but should we?
Song Title: I Don’t Wanna (Watch the World Burn)
I Don’t Wanna (Watch the World Burn)- BAQ
I don’t wanna go to Target
If the check out line’s too long
I don’t wanna say you’re right
I don’t wanna say I’m wrong
But every night
I lie awake
Aching bones
All about to break
I don’t wanna
Be alive
If that means you
Have to die
I don’t wanna
Watch the world burn
Cuz I don’t wanna
Listen to it scream
Spread the ashes, pay your taxes
What else can you do?
I don’t wanna waste my time
Knowing I’m not gonna win
Every day I wake up
I just wanna peel off all my skin
I don’t wanna tip a driver
I don’t wanna die
Pick a smaller, bluer fire
Get burned every time
…is something burning?
I don’t wanna
Watch the world burn
I don’t wanna
Listen to it scream
Spread the ashes, pay your taxes,
What else can you do?
How many people have I
Brought to an end? Will I
Be left for dead? What if I
Go to sleep and never wake?
How many children have I
Paid for their coffin? Will I
Shut up more often? Will I
Pay for every life I take?
I don’t wanna
Watch the world burn
Cuz I don’t think we’ll
Make it out in time
So are you gonna
Watch the world burn?
Are you gonna
Listen to it scream?
Please, please don’t make me
Burn the world down
Cuz I can’t afford to
Pay for all these graves
Can you smell the
World is burning
Can’t you hear the
M*****f**** screams?
I don’t wanna go to Target
If the check out line’s too long