The Tyrant's Closet - Folk Version

[verse] In the tyrant's closet a telling wardrobe grows to push aside the narrative that the emperor has no clothes Shined shoes for hungry bootlickers smeared with virgin honey tailored suits for traffickers breast pockets lined with money [chorus] A leather box and flag pins some strewn on a stack of bibles hoods and sheets and bank receipts for settlements of libel A copy of Mein Kampf notes scribbled on its pages swastika bands and spray tan cans scrapped plans for ballroom stages [verse] In the tyrant's closet behind a rack of ties a stack of notes handwritten on the effectiveness of lies A row of paper shredders to make sure we never see Love letters from North Korea and those pics from Vlaady P [chorus] A leather box of flag pins some strewn on stacks of bibles hoods and sheets and bank receipts for settlements of libel A copy of Mein Kampf notes scribbled on its pages swastika bands and spray tan cans scrapped plans for ballroom stages [verse] In the tyrant's closet behind pictures from teen pageants and a grainy torture video of enemy combatants an open bag of diapers a case of diet coke a Chappaquiddick windshield wiper and written warnings to the woke [chorus] A leather box of flag pins some strewn on stacks of bibles hoods and sheets and bank receipts for settlements of libel A copy of Mein Kampf notes scribbled on its pages swastika bands and spray tan cans scrapped plans for ballroom stages