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Violator, why you gunning us down?
Violator, you’re always standing around
Every corner and demonstration
With your weapons and your war formations
Violator, who is the enemy now?
Violator, who do you work for?
Violator, who sent you to war?
When you shoot my sister down
Blow my brother to the ground
Violator, you’re gonna get what’s yours
Violator, you’re gonna get what’s yours
Violator, violator, why you gunning us down?
Violator violator, why you gunning us down?
Violator, I know you’re stuck in a bind
Violator, and it’s making you blind
When you lay your weapons down
Bury them six feet under the ground
When you lay your badges down
Bury them four feet under the ground
When you lay your uniforms down
Bury them two feet under the ground
When you lay your attitude down
Down on the ground lay it down lay it down now
Violator you’ll get some peace in your mind
Violator and I will treat you kind
Violator, violator, why you gunning us down?
Violator, violator, why you gunning us down?
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If they offer you money
Don't take it
If they promise you happiness, remember
They're faking it
When you been locked in for the longest time
Trying everything to get a better shine
And a mountain of gold gives a lesser light
Here in the dark it's alright
If they offer you power
They just want you for a slave
When they kick in your door they're so sure
You can be behaved
Though you fought them off for the longest time
Got your freedom and you're gonna let it shine
You're not paid, they will say, you will never win
Never give in never give in
So you took the deal
You blew it
When they tell you it's time to lay down and die
You do it
It has been proven since the beginning
When the bell tolls, you gotta let it ring
And the sea will be my one witness
Here in the dark wilderness
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LONELY SOLDIER
05:46
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I don't know what space I'm in
All I see is red and white
My heart is in a hurry
It's got me short of breath
I don't know what state I'm in
Last night I had a dream that I was Superman
Catching bullets with my teeth
Then I was that girl
Begging with my eyes
I don't know what state I'm in
Before you kill a lonely soldier
Look the young man in the eye
Tell him it's not you I'm killing boy
Even if it's you who has to die
We were rolling on a sea of sand
Desert sailing in the night
Then I was in pieces
Blowing through the wind
Exploding in a million points of light
Before you kill a lonely soldier
Take the young man by the hand
Don't you know your life is nothing more
Than just footsteps in the sand
There are people gathered round me now
Red and white have turned to blue
Faces I don't know
And ones I recognize
I don't know what space I'm in
Before you kill a lonely soldier
Walk the young man to the ledge
Tell him we are so proud of you son
And then push him off the edge
Before you kill a lonely soldier
Before you kill a lonely boy
Before you kill kill kill kill
Kill a mother's only joy
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When I saw you in the night
And your lips were painted white
Well it gave me such a thrill
And you'd spied out what's to come
So when all is said and done
You will know the end is real
I don't know where you are now
In the middle of the darkest night
If I ever lay my eyes on you again
Well I sure as hell am gonna fight for you
When I saw you in the day
And your skin was faded grey
Well it gave me such a chill
And the rain was beating down
As we laid you in the ground
And you said I know you will
I don't know what you're saying
In the middle of the darkest night
I don't know if it's wrong or if it's right
But I sure as hell am gonna fight for you
Bombs have already blown
Every acre that I roam
Not a mountain left unturned
and the cities are all dead
Every river painted red
All the languages unlearned
I don't know what you're doing
in the middle of the darkest hour
There is no one left to beat behind the fence
No one left to raise my arms against
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Then I was a widow
And I bore your grief
Walking on behind
The box you’re carried out in
Freedom come
Oh freedom is not just a dream
Now that you have suffered
Now that you are free
Who am I
In your absence
Through your passing
I am not asking
For you to give me more
Death is for the living
Oh my dead lover
My son my father my brother
My self-same other
Gone from spacetime
Gone from lifetime
Alive in thought
Alive in love
Gone to touch
Gone to touch
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TRAPPED ON THE HORIZON
04:37
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Trapped on the horizon by the setting sun
Mariners glow the sky is red
Too far lulilu the wind is fire
And they fall oh they fall
Gone but not forgotten by the solar wheel
Leaving the sunshine in his wake
Winter will pick you up again
When he disappears loving you
Some of us
Some of us
Some of us reveal our love
Some of us
Some of us
Some of us are fools
Stranded and abandoned in Xanadu
Corner lady’s mustard yellow cape
Thunder’s got a honey-lemon hue
In a custard you can taste
Some of us
Some of us
Some of us will burn or break
Some of us
Some of us
Some of us are fools
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FALL IN
04:24
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Bye bye my best friend
We were bonded in blood and when
We were just beginning then
Suddenly it ended
Fallen angel
You would say it is just as well
You were never one to dwell
On where you been
Fall in
Fall in
And when you’re falling
It’s better than it’s ever been
Made it here in a light year
Everything’s never been so clear
Every moment of your life draws near
See it all in a tear
Light rays fading into space
Heat waves on the cold concrete
Flickering in one heartbeat
Blood running in the street
Fall in
Fall in
And when you’re falling
It’s better than it’s ever been
Fall in
Fall in
And when you’re in my wings
It’s better than it’s ever been
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THE DREAM
05:58
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Baby when the dream is over
Wake me up in the light of love
I know the war is just beginning
And the dream demands it’s blood
Everybody’s working for the effort
Few can help but play a part
In this all out war we wage against ourselves
We nail our lines but we lose our hearts
And our hope is not illusion
It is love in the future tense
And our faith is not confusion
It is our most lucid sense
And our nature has been stuck in school
Where we pay to have it killed
And we reason that a crushing debt
Is just reward for a mind refilled
We don’t own the ocean
And we don’t run the moon
We’re not sick with motion
But we will be soon
When the sun is gone
And the blood is drawn
We will light it up in the dead of dawn
We were born to fight for freedom
To deploy our living breath
But we abdicate our power
To the industries of death
We can move to revolution
As we fortify the sense
To metabolize the weapons and the fear
And the myth of self defense
We don’t own the language
And we don’t own the land
It’s the gift of ages
Not a prison, baby
When the sun is gone
Hot blood is drawn
We will light it up in the dead of dawn
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All in a mind
Time runs out of line
and a breath like the passing of light
slipped on into the night
Oh what a light
when a song can finally sing
so I laugh because I know
Life is just beginning
bye bye bye bye
Shuttling ‘cross the lines
like a wind in the shadows of the vine
cold cloudy eyes
while the world is closing in
cuz in life you can’t always fight to win
Oh a rock it unfolds
with a rose in its frieze
at the center there’s an apple
held by the hand of Eve
at the center there’s a seed
that holds the wildbone
and it’s right that we eat in this place we call our home
bye bye bye bye
shuttling ‘cross the lines
like a wind in the trees it’s closing time
head held up high
while the world is opening
peace on earth
what’s been has been
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Wildbone New York, New York
Wildbone plays blues, rhythm & blues, boogie woogie folksoul.
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