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by Dan Whitley & The Passerines

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dau 03:57
You're lost and exhausted Don't know what to do Cut out the dead meat Leave some in too That's what to do on a day like today When everyone tells you that nothing can change And all you can see is this featureless grey I'm lost and forgetful So nothing gets done And nobody sees it They say I'm strong But how many times have I finished this song? And how many times does it need to be said? Confused and delinquent My friends think I'm dead I don't want to be hidden I just know how to hide So many apologies But it's still the same There truly is nothing to see here Why would you change a thing? That's how you'd like it to be A world with no place for a creature like me Tell me now, what do you see? Your prophecy may not be wrong Perhaps we die by our own hands But at least for today we'll be better Than I could have been on my own
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To have that kind of dependency On just one single thing Is the way we told you once That you would have to be You may think it unlikely But then what if you are wrong? But oh, such a little tube, such a little tube I was standing in my kitchen yesterday Thinking of the way I see You may not see the difference But trust me I need all that green It's not really much of a superpower But I'll take what I can get And oh, that's the way I see, that's the way I see There's one thing I have that you don't And that's this old thing called the truth It's taken a beating in recent years But there's always that dog on your heels And how does it feel to know That if pushed I will fall, and if I fell I would hit the ground? Oh, you just wait and see, you just wait and see
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Surround yourself with calming noise Whether audio or visual Nothing can change if it's loud enough A flag on the wall could do it That's a culture of survival A culture for revival Surround yourself with maps and trinkets Colonial statuettes Everything changes, louder now Take it as a spear in your eye But it's not always about you
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There's a man round at the office He's pulling on the grapevine He only listens to the loudest voices A puppet in a suit and a prison There's a man under all that armour And to be honest you can see the cracks As he strains to lift it over him You'd almost start to feel bad for him Until you realise that would be treasonous A dummy for a hidden ventriloquist When his lips move, who is it speaking? When they come knocking down your door, well What are you going to do, man? They'll take you home They'll bag you up It's only an act of war But you don't fight back You can't say no You can't say In the free world How could this happen? In the free world Anything goes Do you want the same as I want? Well, I know how not to get there If you keep on shouting ``freedom!'' You will forget what it means to be free The queen is dead Long live the king
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Don't worry If they say that it all will be fine Don't worry You see they don't know what time it is Don't worry After all there's not much can be done Don't worry At least you won't live to see your children Work away at your millstone job Get rich on the double You're so much better than the rest of the world Don't you see what you could become Or hide away in a stolen vehicle Live your life off the grid You're so much faster than the rest of the world I know how far you can run There's more to life than yourself Empty dichotomy Try to care about some other humans But what can they do for you You might be better off Down with the pigs and the slop You do not see the truth But in your own little world You give out your tacky pamphlets You promise us salvation But you're pushing us over the edge Leviĝu! Ko cuxna lo nunji'e! You tear a life down with words Empty conspiracy Well who am I? That is the question You do not need the truth
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We've lived in history For one million years And you say Why can't it continue Well look now A change is on the way There's too many forces That push in one direction Too many roads That all lead to Rome But history will be undisturbed The world will still turn when we're gone And who knows Maybe you're right Let's just wait and see what happens
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randka 04:52
If you had lived upon the rock It wouldn't have taken that much longer Anyway You will grow up into a lady Then there won't be much more time So why don't we go to town? There's a hundred miniature houses All gathered on the shoreline They can't have been here last year Money wasn't thrown around back then They won't be here next year When the sand has all washed away downstream So if we only have an hour We'll do nobody proud You look at me as if to say "Only you can remember" Well, I don't remember that And if the world comes crashing to the ground Turn it down See what you've found As the good book says Now is not the time To wash away your bad thoughts in a puddle of blood But put them to one side Let's go for a drive There's two little birds They're fighting in the street now Spreading those feathers around But what can you do? Nothing can last forever It goes until it stops And when the sky is falling softly down Burn it to the ground Go another round If you had lived upon the rock It wouldn't have taken that much longer Anyway
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released December 19, 2018

All writing, composition, keyboards, guitars, bass, clarinet, breaking things to see what will happen, bells, whistles, harmonica, singing/whispering/shouting, recording, existential dread†, production, design, photography, weirdness, and manipulations by Dan Whitley, plus a horn sample from somewhere or other and a drum loop or two.

†Existential dread appears courtesy of the Exxon Mobil Corporation et al.

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