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Police State
03:07
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How they move? In packs
Set the stage in shadow
Steeling for the second act
And we can't see the bodies
Just the hands
Brandishing a stick and
Waiting for the next command
Calling all souls
Before it's too late
Lie in the way of the police state
Who are you protecting,
Who do you serve?
Twitching like the scalpel
Touched a nerve
Kept me in my seat
Didn't know my back was bent
Until I tried to stand up straight
You're a very strong man
You've got a very long reach
How we move? In packs
Calling all souls
Before it's too late
Lie in the way of the police state
Enemy combatant, prisoner of war
There isn't any difference anymore
Calling all souls
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2. |
Fourth of July
03:40
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Let's go gather bottles
So we can get drunk for the holiday
Got some roman candles
To help us celebrate
I wanna make some loud noises
Set something off
Get something going and then
Watch it blow up
Joey he ain't coming, don't know where he got to
Hopped a train in Boise and I ain't seen him since
Said he had lead on a job he might do
Said he had a brother who was gonna take him in
I wanna make some loud noises
Set something off
Light it on fire and then
Watch it blow up
I am the whistle before the explosion
I am the heat that makes powder expand
Some days I wake up lucky
Today I am the queen of the damned
Something to empty
Something to swallow
Something to burn out
Someone to follow
I wanna make some loud noises
Piss someone off
Get a fight going and then
Watch it blow up
Make it blow up
Something to empty
Something to swallow
Something to burn out
Someone to follow
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3. |
Marginalized Limb
03:04
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One leg said to the other
I cannot stand it brother
Your step is long, your gait is wide
I'm always on the losing side
One eye said to the other
Was once you were my lover
Now you only look away
I don't see why you even stay
One arm thus it spoke to me
I am not whole, you are not free
We cannot move exactly as we please
The marginalized limb
One tooth said to another
It's hardly worth the bother
Up and down and all we get
Is dark, decay and emptiness
One leg said to the other
I'll not escape you brother
Every time I make a stride
I find you standing by my side
One arm thus it spoke to me
I am not whole, you are not free
We cannot move exactly as we please
Lung and liver
Tongue and heart
A body of complaining parts
A family that is tearing at the seams
The marginalized limb
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4. |
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Gonna spill it all over the ground
See what it looks like
Gonna spill it all into the sea
See what I done
Swallow it and cut it up
Tell you what it looks like
Draw you a simple picture
Before I run
Oh but I missed
All the prettyness
Oh it's delicate
Too late now
Gonna spill it all over the ground
See what it looks like
Gonna spill it all into the sea
See what I done
And this what that you had once
You won't have no more
But you won't know just when
Has the taking begun
Oh but I missed
All the prettyness
Oh it's delicate
Too late now
We come, we come, we come in peace
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5. |
United
06:55
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United
We lay where we lay
Our bodies and blood in the way
Of all you aim to control
Of all you hope to have and to hold
We are united
We have slept for so long
Pushing away the truths we have known
We are one, hook and line
And if you sink to the bottom
I'm sinking at the same time
We are united
You are already on our side
There is but one, when you awake you will find
We'll leave the death of our theft and neglect behind us
Celebrate life, honor the ties that bind us
We are united
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6. |
Map of America
03:23
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Looking at a map of America
And I hear your voice in my head
Singing every word that I'm thinking
Humming every thought that I had
Meaning well and doing well are different
Says the table full of debris
Left over from breakfast
When you were sitting next to me
How do you know when it's ready
How do you know when it's right?
Plugged all the numbers in
But the answer comes out different every time
Looking at a map of America
And I can see just where we are
And I count myself lucky
To have made it this far
You know me, I would've traded places
with a million people at a million times
And a million would've wanted what I had
How do you know when it's ready
How do you know when it's right?
Plugged all the numbers in
But the answer comes out different every time
Maybe it's different every time
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7. |
Bay Ocean
03:03
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Bay ocean bay ocean
Won't you set her free
My love in a house that fell into the sea
I find it in pieces washed up on the beach
Hairbrush of bone hidden half in the sand
Balustrade where she once lay her sweet hand
Frame with no picture
A door and a key
Bay ocean bay ocean
Let her back to me
I see we were wrong to put our trust in you
For you will do things that a man could not do
Fury and force to deliver it well
I'd sooner pact with the devil in hell
Bay ocean bay ocean
Let her back to me
What use have you for her broken body?
Crackled and sparkled when she was alive
Bay ocean let me lay her down now she's died
Late when sleep takes me I'm caught in your squall
A man with no arms and no throat left to call
A voice I remember like no other one says
She took me to pay for the damage you've done
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8. |
Hide You Here
03:16
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I can hide you here
They don't know to be looking yet
Anyway they won't find you here
Come in now, your hair's all wet
I don't need a reason
I don't need a word
Thought you'd be gone by now
Whisked away on a plane
You got left behind somehow
By ones you thought were your friends
I don't need a reason
I don't need a word
I could comprehend it
The moment that I heard
Evil is a funny thing
Gets inside your bones
Fiddles with your switches
You mustn't stand too close
I don't need a reason
I don't need a word
I knew why you did it
The moment that I heard
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9. |
Empires Fall
03:18
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I watched your bus as it pulled away from the station
I thought I saw your hand pressed to the glass
Five fingers spread out in panic or supplication
I wish I knew but I never ask
And there you go
Trapped like a bird in formation
Empires fall
I'll be here when you return
When I first looked at the picture I didn't notice
Something was missing that used to be part of your face
A question that lived in between your eyes and your hairline
Heaviness moved in and settled in its place
I know you
Caught like a kid in the crossfire
Empires fall
I'll be here when you return
There you stood
Lost like a word in translation
Empires fall
I'll be here when you return
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10. |
The Wall
02:33
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Catherine Feeny Portland, Oregon
Feeny's music was featured in the film "Running with Scissors," as well as television series' "The O.C." and "One Tree Hill." She has toured extensively, supporting The Indigo Girls, John Prine and Wilco. After leaving EMI UK in 2008, Feeny re-located to Portland, OR to make music independently. Her album "America" inspired Eve Ensler to commission a song for the One BIllion Rising organization. ... more
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