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New Song Regarding Old Problems

from Ruminations From Barrydise During an Apocalypse by Rick Barry

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lyrics

I wanted so hard to believe in the great mirage.
We wanted so badly to feed, but we starved.
Want to flood into the streets in a savage rage,
Shake the forbidden fruit from the tree,
Goddamn the plague.

Singing in the basement in fearful detachment from my romantic best self’s tenacious enactments.
Locked up
Locked up and locked out

You were brought here across the sea, in chains.
Southern man wanted so bad to keep you enslaved.
Then you fought to be free, free for a change.
Then the cops put you under their knee and into the grave.

Capital offenses with minimum sentences and public defenses,
what we all pretend is that we can’t see history repeat,
Lock them up and throw away the key.
Locked up
Locked up and locked out

Try to explain this:
There’s children in cages, if their skins a shade different, it’s okay to be indifferent.
How very Christian is child incarceration with your justification based on skin pigmentation?
Now history repeats, another man can’t breathe.
“Turn the other cheek,” What is that supposed to mean?
Things we don’t discuss much, the system that we trust is bound to collapse on its people, who are being crushed beneath the weight of an elitist class.
If you’re not part of that entitled caste, when they’re done with them, you’ll be next, standing in a pile of ash.
Upward class mobilization is a farce of a creation. It’s a fable that’s enabled to suppress a population.
Where is the heart in heartland?
Why is it I can’t understand?
Class war is at the door from the beltway to the badlands.
They continue to divide us with the shit they put inside us.
Some subtle, some not, like everyone's got an equal shot at clawing out of poverty, not far removed from the slavery that built this whole society.
Change is going to take bravery.
And I’ll try better I promise, to be more courageous in the face of an injustice, but until then they just bust us up

Locked up and locked out.

credits

from Ruminations From Barrydise During an Apocalypse, released October 23, 2020
Rick Barry- Words/Music, Vocals,
Brother Love - Background Vocals
Judd Fuller - Bass
Alex Haddad - Guitars
Sarah Tomek - Drums, Percussion, Background Vocals

Produced by Brother Love, Alex Haddad, and Sarah Tomek
Engineered by Brother Love
Mixed by Brother Love and Tom Maxwell
Mastered by Tom Maxwell

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