You Look Better In A Mask

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Chris Shepard

Chris Shepard is an American recording engineer and general manager at Chicago Recording Company. He is best known for his work with KMFDM, having engineered some of their most popular albums. He also worked on some of Sascha Konietzko's side projects. In addition, he has worked with many other bands, including PIG, Treponem Pal, Prong, Kidneythieves, Wilco, Smashing Pumpkins, Peter Murphy, and Incubus. more »

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I pulled into the supermarket parking lot, grabbed my reusable bags
Because I care about the environment
I put on my fashionable mask
'Cause they've got this pandemic on and it's literally the least I can do

I get a cart and I commence to shopping
Turning down the cereal aisle, I see the entire face of a man who simply doesn't care

Now, aside from his bald-faced solipsism
I would say his face would be best described as "unfit for vision"

I wondered how a man so unburdened by the curse of beauty would insist 
Upon putting his fellow humans at risk just to gaze 
Upon his smug face itself a waving flag of rampant selfishness... and an ugly one at that

You look better in a mask
You look better undercover
Cover up your face and do everyone a favor

You look better in a mask
Cover up that mug
With a face like yours
You'd look better swept under the rug

Well, I thought about perhaps explaining to this man 
The benefits of wearing a simple piece of protective clothing during a global pandemic

That the mantras of "Faith over fear" and personal freedom fall 
On the deaf ears of a virus that has no political affiliation

And that a mask can not only be a personal fashion statement 
In an attempt to make a bad situation somehow more tolerable

But it would almost certainly be much more comfortable 
Than being in a hospital bed hooked to a ventilator
And, to be honest, even the most unattractive of masks looks better 
Than your silly goatee and Oakley sunglasses

You look better in a mask
You look better undercover
Cover up your face and do everyone a favor

You look better in a mask
Cover up that mug
With a face like yours
You'd look better swept under the rug

Ladies and gentlemen, I have something to say
Please gather at the front of the stage
As I look out upon this largely homogeneous sea of bare faces
A crowd of easels with no discernible art of any magnitude
A veritable paragon of evolution's apathy toward objective beauty
Nature's most compelling evidence of the outward manifestation of stunted intelligence
I say unto this collection of unimpressive and increasingly angry visages

You look better in a mask
You look better undercover
Cover up your face and do everyone a favor

You look better in a mask
Cover up that mug
With a face like yours
You'd look better swept under the rug

Logic is toxic to the willfully ignorant
They dig in their heels and they blame the government
Or whatever half-baked conspiracy they find on the internet
Like all of this is headed toward Sharia law

Well, I've gotta say that every time I see you walking through the grocery store 
With that smug antagonistic look of self-satisfaction

That you missed a golden opportunity to shield your face from public scrutiny 
In spite of your cries of imagined tyranny

You look better in a mask
You look better undercover
Cover up your face and do everyone a favor

You look better in a mask
Cover up that mug
With a face like yours
You'd look better swept under a rug

You look better in a mask
You look better undercover
Cover up your face and do everyone a favor

You look better in a mask
Cover up that mug
If not for public health
Then for somebody you love

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