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Lightningcloak

by Brown Word and the Big Whine

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1.
Good Trouble 03:37
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V1: John Lewis marched across the Pettus bridge Got his head busted by the violent pigs Finally got the Voting Rights Act passed Some ninety-five years after the fact Ch: Get in good trouble, good good trouble Get in good trouble, good good trouble Sometimes the rules ain't in the right Sometimes you gotta bend 'em, sometimes you gotta fight Good trouble - get in the way Stiving for justice at the end of the day V2: Sitting at the counter trying to get served People spitting on you, treat ya like dirt Taking the blows, turn the other cheek Taking your power in numbers to the street Chorus. Well there was fire hoses and vicious dogs There were sit-ins and marches and beautiful songs There were lynchings, bombings, KKK terror There were speeches, action, collective clamor We're talking about Civil Rights What should be given wasn't got without a fight V3: Today we have the masses in the public square Militarized police still ain't fighting fair We've come along way and got a long way to go It isn't too late to let our consciousness grow Chorus.
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Chupacabra 03:06
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In the old days there were tales of a creature so vicious That on moonlit nights it would come And suck all the insides out of the goats And leave them lying empty in the fields Chupacabra, that's what my mama said Gonna make the boys cry, and so I did Mother in her platforms Mother with her pistol Feeding little billy goats to her kid Rolling down the street I am the talk of the town Pretend I'm in the movies with the top down Cherry cola sunglasses feeling cool as hell Thought I saw you dancing, lemme ring your bell Chupacabra, that's what the doctor said Make a grown man cry, and so I did Doctor such a smart man He make a hundred grand Gonna write a book with what was in my head Rolling down the street I am the talk of the town Pretend I'm in the movies with the top down Velveteen bustier feeling cool as hell Caught you looking handsome let me ring your bell Just when you thought you saw it all Here comes the night the shadows fall Oh lemme get a look at you Just when you thought you saw it all Here comes the night the shadows fall Oh lemme get a look at ya Before I sink my teeth in ya Chupacabra, my baby said it once Make the old men cry, it's what I done Alligator jumpsuit Carrying my bumbershoot Never let 'em catch you with the Mythical One
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Please Scream Inside Your Heart 02:52
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Please scream inside your heart For the ones who no one hears The ones too terrorized to speak The lives stamped out in fear Please scream inside your heart For the innocent incarcerated Whose freedom is corrupted Whose lives are interrupted Please scream inside your heart Then move your heart to act Lift up your voice Or find your feet Or raise your fist Or drop your ballot Or break free from compliance For the ones who cannot cry out The murdered and forgotten The railroaded, the beaten The ones whose voices have been taken For the ones who stand before you And plainly plead their case For the ones who have been stifled And you'll never see their face Please scream inside your heart For the victims of a cruel charade Heads busted for speaking up By government's jack-booted thugs Please scream inside your heart And realize the madness That all along resides beneath A comfortable facade of peace Please scream inside your heart Then move your heart to act Lift up your voice Or find your feet Or raise your fist Or drop your ballot Or come together Or break from compliance In your heart
4.
I Had It Coming 03:03
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Sometimes things don't go quite the way you planned This is one of those times Well you'd think I knew better But it wasn't to be That old bad judgment Got the better of me Nowhere to pass the buck I gotta look in the mirror No one to blame I'm the only one here I'm in trouble and there's nowhere to run Paper cuts and spilling guts Has finally caught up to me I had it coming I had it coming Too late to stop this danger bus Rolling straight for me The rock is now the hard place And I'm stuck in deep The frying pan's on fire And it's playing for keeps No one to call for life line I'm floating on my own Caught up in a riptide I'm about to go down The DA takes the bench and brings her papers to the fore The judge is shooting daggers at this prisoners of war The lawyer counts his money and decides if he should fight While the jury wants to go back home, forget this all tonight I get up in the witness stand and I swear a solemn oath And I wear a mask of dignity as my whole world goes south Cause when the cell door locks til executioner is summoned I'll pray to father up above although I had it coming
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Floating Away 03:01
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Take me to New Orleans I wanna see those sights I wanna see the many faces Mardi Gras, those flashing lights I didn't know where I am We're sleeping in a van Streets a thunder for blocks We're huffing ether off a sock And I'm floating away Floating away High above the crowd On the float that I made Floating away Floating away Man I'm fucking high... The parking garage New Orleans Have to pee at the casino Now were eating at the buffet This place like nowhere I know The night comes dancing back Mississippi Mud in brown sack 4 am on the big clock We're huffing ether off a sock And the old man wants to go somewhere We wheel him up and through the crowd Hanging beads on the back of his chair Joyous sound unto the lord And I'm floating away Floating away High above the crowd On the float that I made Floating away Floating away Man I'm fucking high... And I'm floating away Floating away High above the crowd On the float that I made
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Broken Heart Syndrome 03:34
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Someone shot a bullet in the heart of America She got the broken heart syndrome Running toward a greatness decency won't allow The nightmares of the past bleeding into the now Streets on fire in the cities of gold Tomorrow is a flag that may or may not unfold You can argue who fired the shot But who the hell can help her heal? In the flotsam and the jetsam of the uber rich In the blood and oil flowing in a drainage ditch You can see your own reflection looking in your eye Keep on staring till the smoke blots out the sky And if you have the money to be free You never have to see the forest for the trees They were cutting down To get a better view A walking contradiction in the land of the free Somebody shackled Lady Liberty Laughing in your tower or lying in the street You can go either direction in a broken heart beat Because you're free like that to take to the sky Or strangled by the root to shrivel up and die You're pulling up by your bootstraps But your dime is worth a nickle son She'll love you like the mother that you never had She'll whup you with the fury of an ornery old man She'll leave you in the gutter just an empty skin But nothing glitters like gold in the land of sin So inject into her veins she's pumping cold hard cash Kneeling at the altar of almighty ass Take your tokens and pray to your god You don't get picked up by the cops

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released December 22, 2020

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