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1. |
I Can't Breathe
03:51
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He might die he might die in the street
and we’ll never know why
he was broken and beat by police
He might die
we gonna cry gonna cry crocodile tears
and will never know why
we surrender to fear all our lives
we gonna cry
Please please please I cant breathe
Please please please I cant...
let us pray let us pray let us pray for his soul
on this day on this day gonna
bury his bones on this day
let us pray
he’s gonna fade gonna fade in 25 years
he’ll be Dust and a thousand
photographs on old hard drives
he’s going to fade
Please please please I cant breathe
Please please please I cant...
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2. |
Kent State x4
03:58
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Get out of our town
you weren't invited
this is our MO -
we get a little excited
sometimes we need to blow some steam
orders come in from the DJT
he’s hopped up on Cialis
tryin hard to get real hard
so he can keep the palace
sometimes he needs to blow some steam
someones gonna get fucking shot
and chances are it’ll be the kid we thought
would go to college and stop a future war
today is Kent Sate Times Four
it’s like playing Monopoly
outside in a wind storm
money and utilities
flyin’ in a shit storm
sometimes we need to blow some steam
Dict stain Donald
he isn't your friend
like Shit Gipper Ronald
these are not men...are we not men?
sometimes they need to blow some steam
tear gas flash bangs rubber bullets pepper spray
feed the fire with gasoline we wont go away
someones gonna get fucking shot
and chances are it’ll be the kid we thought
would go to college and stop a future war
today is Kent Sate Times Four
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3. |
Arco Story
03:02
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I live behind the Greyhound station with my
baby daughter and my old lady we just
came here from Shreveport Louisiana cause my
cousin Ronnie told me they were hiring at the
M and V Machine and Fabrication cause at my
old job they done gone to automation and I
don’t do drugs and I’m a real hard worker
so do you have a cigarette a dollar or a quarter
ran out of gas at mile marker 30 and my
sister’s pregnant and our family’s in tacoma but I
broke my shoulder I was training in the army &my
doctor told me it never going to set right so I
just need 3 gallons it’ll get me to the city and my
sister’s boyfriend will be coming with some money she been crying here all morning and I really can’t do nothing
so do you have the time or a dollar or quarter
so do you have the time or a dollar or quarter
so do you have the time or a dollar or quarter
so do you have the time or a dollar or quarter
do you have a cigarette? thank you and God bless you sir
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4. |
Monkey
05:16
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I believe we’re all made the same
oxygen, hydrogen and carbon
we come from a place that don't have a name
or answer scribbled in the margin
we all go back to the love of the dirt
I hope we all get to be grateful
for the time we absorbed the sun & the wind
and the family and friends at the table
I was prepared for monkey to die
I wasn't prepared for my girlfriend
didn’t know how to grieve
didn’t know how to cry
when she was taken away by the Covid
I never wanted to absorb the tradition that you knew
You only wanted me to cry when I knew it wasn’t true
you left a finger on the button of the bomb inside of you
and when it detonated, fulminated what else could I do
kill the lights and close the door
bye-bye mama I’m going to war
I’m giving up my ego
and when I sign on with the Marine Corps
I’ll fly across the ocean like a seagull
and It ain’t always sad when a loved one dies
cause I know they’re released from their burden
it’s just hurts to hear those little ones cry
yes it’s hard to hear them hurtin
I was prepared for monkey to die
I wasn't prepared for my girlfriend
didn’t know how to grieve
didn’t know how to cry
when she was taken away by the Covid
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5. |
FeAr
04:16
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What’s it gonna take to put myself out there fear
who am I gonna be when the negotiation rises fear
how will I control this elastic situation fear
you can join a gang or you can join the army fear
static electric situation it’s taking over the nation
fear they’re here to take your home away
it’ll stick here if you don’t wanna play
All the calories are poisen and the tumors start growing fear
am I gaining more weight or is my baby start to showing fear
and I’m gonna look so stupid when my daddy says goodbye fear
when my mama passes on am I even going to cry fear
you keep coming up empty-handed
running to the field where the spaceship landed
you’re growing further from the ones that love you
it gets so lonely in the stars above you
What’s it gonna take to put myself out there fear
who am I gonna be when the negotiation rises fear
better have a closer look at your relationship to money fear
is this a baby birch ash or is it poison ivy fear
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6. |
Fall to Pieces
03:25
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If you fall to pieces I’ll give you a neck to cry on
seasons move too fast when the music is gone
losing days and the virus haze
and no one knows you ain’t smiling
the summer’s gone &you seen no one
and you weren't weren’t really trying
If you fall to pieces I’ll give you a neck to cry on
seasons move too fast when the music is gone
seasons move too fast when the music is gone
magnolias bloom outside your room
and it’s good to hear you laughin
the TV’s on you’re playing a song
you won’t forget the feeling
Adverse to activity slow to respond
markedly slow in movement
economically inactive like a dog in a pond
sluggish and wasting your oxygen
If you fall to pieces I’ll give you a neck to cry on
seasons move too fast when the music is gone
seasons move too fast when the music is gone
give me just one more day on the side of Mt St Helens
I will burn with fire drown in the blood of the sun
If you fall to pieces I’ll give you a neck to cry on
seasons move too fast when the music is gone
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7. |
Exiled
03:52
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Mama come and whisk me away
bring me to a greener place
in this town I can’t show my face without being judged
I came here in a better time
following the northbound signs
a pioneer just driving lines on the freeway
now it’s cold outside and there might be rain
gonna buy my ticket on an aer·o·plane
when the wind starts blowing
on the weathervane I’m exiled
now it’s cold outside and there might be rain
Gonna state my business Gonna stake my claim
when the wind starts blowing
on the weathervane I’m exiled
Thank you darling for the ride
there’s a town on the Canadian side
they say it’s pretty easy to hide if you keep a low profile
I’ll rent a half acre of land
and open up a coffee stand
my boy will grow into a man here in exile
now it’s cold outside and there might be rain
gonna buy my ticket on an aer·o·plane
when the wind starts blowing
on the weathervane I’m exiled
now it’s cold outside and there might be rain
Gonna state my business Gonna stake my claim
&I’m sick and fucking tired of the USA I’m exiled
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8. |
When You Smile
02:53
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Orphan Train Vancouver, Washington
Orphan train has been the vehicle Aram has used to release original songs since 2003. Prior releases were fed to the world under his hyper Armenian banner ‘ARAM’. All albums offer up something a little different, with the thruline of timeless melodies/lyrics and production. Go fig. ... more
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