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Better the devil you know
Than the devil you don’t
Not flapping like finches in bushes
Or trampling on in a parade
We can’t hide ourselves behind lines
Better they cover their faces
Than those who hide without masks
Bedsheets are chanting on court steps
Real devils are peaking out
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Paramount (demo - 2001)
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O Carolina
Don’t close your door on me
I’ve got two arms to work
I’ve got two eyes to see
The ghost of the workers all
Shouting “Immigrants, now swim home”
Their bosses don’t hear them
By their pools on their cell phones
Paramount is home
When the work of the summer’s gone
When the work of the summer’s gone
Paramount is home
O Carolina
Don’t turn your back on me
I’ve got two mouths to feed
They’ve got a right to eat
O frontier justice
Born like Venus from the foam of the sea
An injustice to you
Must be an injustice to me
Paramount is home
When the work of the summer’s gone
When the work of the summer’s gone
Paramount is home
When I look up into the air
And notice all the black clouds there
I believe what I’ve always believed
And nothing will change what I’ve seen
You shook me all night long
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Poor speaker, so rattled by verse
Poor narrator, no time to rehearse
I give him latitude for his responsibilities
But every shifting mood has such a consequence for me
I can’t keep waiting and waiting
For depth of conversation
I feel I have to move
To find my own direction
Poor architect, your building shaken to the ground
Poor manager, you’re desperate now
I can’t understand why I keep working to please them
Why do I say these words, “You can count on me?”
I can’t keep waiting and waiting
For depth of conversation
I feel I have to move
To find my own direction
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Go West my son!
Take the keys and whatever you ask for
Don’t look back, though
The East is a mess of shuddering pieces
Californian cliffs
Long cold paths on black sand beaches
Don’t work too hard
What good is a coast if you never can reach it?
Wheels and minds aflame
Searching for better things
Remember you’re settling down
And the sun sets at home
At last
The hills are shaking
Oranges
The grass is yellow
Tied to me
Are ribbons I could never leave
I’m wondering
What good is a home if you never can leave it?
Wheels and minds aflame
Searching for better things
Remember you’re settling down
And the sun sets at home
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Orioles (demo - 2001)
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No, we can't keep our wings lifted
It's not the morning that makes us sing
Colorations not a sign of the gifted
Broken holders of the morals we bring
No, we can't keep our hands lifted
Or the timbres of our voices clean
Swooping in but for the threat of the window
Another victim for the agency
Birds in colors like a calendar's numbers
Hear it coming like the spreading of a wing
Orioles and bluebirds and jays
Baltimore, Toronto had their way
Forged in life, there are conditions to the names we take
Orioles, they aren't just properties and they are just things
Cardinals, on baseball bats and diamond rings
No, we can't keep our wings lifted
for stockholders or prosperity
Looking out from a caroller's bumper
Feet are frozen to the lake until spring
Fear of flying becomes a fear of a flash flood
Fear of dying from a rifle's sting
Birds in colors like a calendar's numbers
Fascinated by the image of these teams
Orioles and bluebirds and jays
Baltimore, Toronto had their way
Forged in life, there are conditions to the names we take
Orioles, they aren't just properties and they aren't just things
Cardinals, on baseball bats and on diamond rings
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Southern Punk Archive Oxford, Mississippi
This page is aims to give otherwise lost punk / punk adjacent music from the Southern United States a platform to be discovered. Some of these recordings may not meet quality standards the artists would have desired of their official releases, but are posted here as a matter historical documentation. ... more
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Mocking Solemnity, Death Becomes You, and For Whom the Bell Tolls are great. SUNN O))) certainly don't do cover versions in the way other bands do, for sure! I wonder what Cliff Burton would have thought of it...? The four collaborations with Masami Akita/Merzbow aren't my thing, but if you are into it then you can find further collaboration on CroMonolithic Remixes for an Iron Age. "Time marches on..."
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