Stephen Miller (Temu Lex Luthor) Smug Tony (Fire Cut)

[Start] [Intro – Ragtime Piano Creep / Muted Brass Snicker] Psst. Ladies, germs, informants, and bargain-bin masterminds... Tonight’s feature comes wrapped in cheap menace and free shipping. [pause] Do not applaud yet. It may think it earned prestige. [Beat Kicks In] [Verse 1] Everybody’s heard something From behind the velvet drape Little man in a big-boy chair Practicing his tyrant shape Bought himself a master plan Missing half the screws Got a clearance-rack manifesto And some policy shoes He wants a bald-head villain lair With lasers in the floor But the cape came wrinkled in the mail And won’t villain anymore Talks like doom in paperwork Smiles like a locked file Got that discount evil posture And a courthouse aisle [Pre-Chorus] He ain’t thunder He ain’t fright He’s a coupon for cruelty Afraid of the light [Chorus] Temu Lex Luthor Clearance-bin heart Bought himself a master plan Missing half the parts Temu Lex Luthor Big little fright Talks like a tyrant Looks scared of the light Cheap little Caesar Budget-brain smoke Tuxedo on trash day Calling it woke Temu Lex Luthor (Stephen Miller) Hear the brass band laugh All that villain theater At half off half [Verse 2] Deputy this, adviser that Titles stacked like borrowed hats Homeland whispers, border drums Policy cruelty chewing gums He sells fear wholesale By the box and crate Calls it law and order When the sorrow ships late Family names in folder ink Children caught in state machines He makes the cold sound strategic With a memo and a spleen Now Tony knows wicked Tony knows sin Tony once sold shame With a velvet chin But there’s art in corruption There’s rhythm in vice This man makes evil look ...Underpriced [Pre-Chorus 2] He ain’t genius He ain’t grand He’s a fake gold shovel In a graveyard band [Chorus] Temu Lex Luthor Clearance-bin heart Bought himself a master plan Missing half the parts Temu Lex Luthor (Stephen Miller) Big little fright Talks like a tyrant Looks scared of the light Cheap little Caesar Budget-brain smoke Tuxedo on trash day Calling it woke Temu Lex Luthor Hear the brass band laugh All that villain theater At half off half [Break – Piano Roll / Call-and-Response] Who wrote the memo? (Discount doom!) Who dimmed the room? (Discount doom!) Who bought a throne from a pop-up ad? (Discount doom!) Who thinks he’s bad? (He wishes!) Who scared the innocent? (The state did!) Who scared Tony? (Not this kid!) [pause] Mind your invoices. [Verse 3] See, real villains shimmer With expensive disease They enter rooms And make the chandeliers kneel This one arrives like a filing mistake With a little black binder And a room-temperature ache He don’t haunt the republic He pesters the seams Turns nightmares bureaucratic Then calls them dreams He don’t build castles He leases a sneer From men with loud flags And profitable fear And everybody knows Though nobody says He ain’t the monster in the tower He’s the clerk who alphabetized the dread [Bridge – Beat Pulls Back / Smug Spoken-Rap] Understand me. I admire vulgarity. The shine. The appetite. The nerve to rob a room and make the room clap first. But this? [pause] This is not grandeur. This is cruelty wearing elevator shoes. This is a bargain tyrant with a receipt in his soul. This is Lex Luthor if Lex ordered himself from a midnight ad and arrived with no batteries. [Final Chorus] Temu Lex Luthor (Stephen Miller) Clearance-bin heart Bought himself a master plan Missing half the parts Temu Lex Luthor Big little fright Talks like a tyrant Looks scared of the light Cheap little Caesar Budget-brain smoke Tuxedo on trash day Calling it woke Temu Lex Luthor Hear the brass band laugh All that villain theater At half off half Temu Lex Luthor No thunder, no crown Just a cheap little shadow Making ugly plans loud [Outro – Spoken / Piano Stumble] Now remember... I said allegedly with my eyebrows. [pause] And if he wants respect, tell him to buy better evil. Preferably local. I know a guy... [End]