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H.W.C. (Live)

HWC (live)

Liz Phair is a huge inspiration on Shmushkin.

I remember watching him defend her songwriting talents to a Chicago hipster of some note who was arguing Phair was little more than “a stripper with a guitar” playing on the prurient fantasies of rock nerds.

Shmushkin pointed out that this was no insult, and was true of most of the great rock stars. He said the way Phair was doing what a Jim Morrison or Robert Plant had done years before was WAY more interesting and she wasn’t ripping off Willie Dixon to do it.

That was years before her tantric anthem celebrating the masculine essence came out and pissed off everyone all over again.

People often ask me the difference between me and Shmushkin. Here it is. When Shmushkin played this song in riot grrl Olympia he got the room singing along. When I played it at a Radio8Ball Show in Los Angeles with Mirah, I got booed by a crowd full of women and was accused of disrespecting Liz Phair.

 

Lyrics

H.W.C.

She said,
“Give it to me, don’t give it away
Don’t think about what the others say
My skin’s getting clear, my hair’s so bright
All you do is fuck me every day and night”

I’m her secret beauty routine
Na, na-na na, what her body has seen
She’s lookin’ good and she’s feeling nice
Baby, it’s the best magazine advice

I give her my hot white cum
Give her my hot white cum
I give her my hot white cum
Give her my hot white cum

So she pulls me right back between the sheets
Everything is fresher when the day is sweet
In the morning light when I’m already on the phone

Face it, one of these days
Without me you’re just another Dorian Gray
It’s the fountain of youth
It’s the meaning of life
So hot, so sweet, so whet you appetite
for my…

Credits

Written by Liz Phair
Modified by Shmushkin
Performed live at The China Clipper
in Olympia, Washington
(Date Unknown)

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