Name: Americans
Duration: P00H02M17S
Description: I wrote this song while living in Wales in 2016. I was watching a lot of coverage of the presidential primaries and the general election from, reading The Great Gatsby, and thinking about what it means to be an American.

Americans

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I wrote this song while living in Wales in 2016. I was watching a lot of coverage of the presidential primaries and the general election from, reading The Great Gatsby, and thinking about what it means to be an American.

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My problems are American. My strengths are American.
My weaknesses are glaringly American like “freedom.”
Tell me, what does that mean?
You say it so much it's an abstract, means nothing

Mythology of where we come from
The verdant green coast of a new world that wasn't mine

East Coast: megalopolis
my flora and fauna are concrete
and businessmen, bankers, and cowards
Losers and liars, restless and tired
This world could be so beautiful
If people were left to live like they wanted to
work like they wanted to

Mythology of where we come from
Where we're going is looking real scary
But if we didn't care, we wouldn't fight to steer it
If we didn't care we would just jump the ship
Oh and if I didn't care
I wouldn't scream my heart out about it

“Got a big mouth and I'm gonna use it!” - American contrarian
“I have two eyes and I can see through all the media's lies”
“I know what truth is”
I know what truth is!!!

In America where your consent
is manufactured for someone else's power
In America

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from Demo Tape, released December 3, 2018

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Punks from D.C. who appreciate the fuck out of Pinhead Gunpowder, Thin Lizzy, and Leatherface

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