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Short sighted people in power
They're killing us quick
By the day, by the hour
While they stack up their profits
It's never enough
But We're the ones left here to clean it all up
The NRA's pulling the trigger
The body count is growing
bigger and bigger
While they stack up their profits
It's never enough
We're down on our knees
cleaning up blood
and the Fossil fuels fueling the fires
The temperature's rising
We're down to the wire
While they stack up their profits
It's never enough
We're the ones drowning and burning up
The drug companies selling us poison
Turned a whole generation
into addicts for what?
So they could stack up their profits
It's never enough
We can't afford rehab so we just lock them up
Damn these short sighted people in power
We can't let them divide us from their ivory tower
We must come together
Say enough is enough
It'll take everyone of us to get what we want
From these short sighted people in power
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The Wrong Side
04:20
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Brown kids in cages
Black bodies on the ground
Women with old men's hands
Covering their mouths
While the white folks in the red hats are cheering
Their kids are overdosing
And the truth us disappearing
Fuck the president
Fuck the gop
Fuck the folks at news Spreading lies on tv
And fuck you for getting us into this
And refusing to see
It aint both sides Its one side
Its your side it's the wrong side
California is burning
Puerto Rico is still a mess
The Saudis are killing journalists
The white does PR for the Prince
While the white folks in their red hats are blinded
By the hate they for a caravan
Full of woman and children fleeing violence
Fuck the president
Fuck the gop
Fuck the folks at news Spreading lies on tv
And fuck you for getting us into this
And refusing to see
It aint both sides Its one side
Its your side it's the wrong side
Don't believe what you read
Don't believe what you hear
Just scream lock her up and send her back
Fuel you're anger with your fear
All you white folks in the red hats say you love him
While he weaponizes every power he has
Swears there ain't no law above him
Fuck the president
Fuck the GOP
Fuck the folks at news Spreading lies on tv
And fuck you for getting us into this
And refusing to see
It aint both sides Its one side
Its your side it's the wrong side
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All you "hollywood elites"
You just don't understand us
We like our leader rich
With no political experience
So what if he hates women ?
I can barely stand my wife
So what if he hates immigrants ?
I've been taught to my whole life
What has happened to the white man?
You know, we like power too
Ain't allowed to express it
The way these colored people do
It ain't like nothin' bad's ever happened
And if it did those men they weren't like us
See, we're just trying to protect our families
From people that we can't trust
Chorus
I miss america the way it used to be
When i turned on my tv all i saw was people just like me
I miss america when i walked out my door
There weren't a bunch of snowflake protests
It was peaceful but it ain't anymore
I miss america
It aint my fault
All them Indians died
Had to start a country some how
I hear oklahoma's nice
So what about slavery I was born in 1959
Regan told us that they're weak and their lazy
Milking welfare for every dime
Dont get me started on the gays
Or abortion, that's a sin
God told me through the tv preacher
You know i put my faith in him
I love this country and i show it
With my confederate flag in the wind
It's Everybody else is to blame
For these hard times we're living in
Chorus
I miss america the way it used to be
When i turned on my tv all I saw was people just like me
I miss America when i walked out my door
There weren't a bunch of snowflake protests
It was peaceful but it ain't anymore
yeah it was peaceful but it ain't anymore
yeah I miss america
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Voter Suppression
02:04
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We can't have these Black people
We can't have these brown people
We can't have these poor people
We can't have these working people
Vote cuz they don't like us no they don't (no they don't)
We've got all this power, people
We've got all this Power, people
How we gonna keep this power people
We got all this power people
We can't let em vote cuz they don't like us no they don't (no they don't)
Let's kick em off the voter rolls
Let's force these polling places closed
It was so much easier with the fire hose
Or back when we could tax and test em at the polls
Lets make 'em stand in line for hours
Let's keep 'em from voting
cuz we're all a bunch of cowards
Free and fair don't mean shit to me
We're the GOP
Fuck democracy
We're the GOP
Fuck democracy
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All American Way
03:13
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Cant go jogging
Can't go walking
Cant watch tv In their own fucking apartment
Cant go shopping
Cant wear a hoodie
Cant get caught sleeping In the house they live in
Cant get caught driving
Cant get pulled over
Cant get caught reaching
Cant get caught with their arms up
Cant get caught complying
Cant get caught denying
Cant get caught protesting
Cant get caught trying
Cant get caught living
Cant get caught running
Cant get caught giving
Cant get caught with a broken tail light
Cant go bird watching
Cant go to the pool
Cant play in the park Or get caught playing the fool
Cant get caught standing
Cant get caught on the ground
Cant get caught trying to get away
Cant get caught minding their own
Cant get caught helping
Cant get caught playing with toys
Or with their hands in their pockets
Cant get caught selling
Loose cigarettes
Cant get caught yelling
Can't get caught In their own fucking bed
Cant get caught trying to breathe
Cant get caught asking for help
Cant get caught crying
Cant get caught taking care of themselves
But try and to take a white man's hair cut away
They'll storm the state capitol with ar-15's
And you can bet
They'll walk away
They can shoot up black churches
They can shoot up the schools
They can shoot at the cops
They can shoot up the rules
White folks can shoot till they're blue in the face
You can bet they'll walk away
It's the all american way
Its the all american way
It's the all american way
Its the all american way
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The Experts Told Us
03:57
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Ain't much going on
It's been that way for months now
When we traded hope for darkness
I Should've known that pain would come around
Unemployment's dry
just like the hands on everybody
Wash em to happy birthday two times
While the tears flood in your eyes
Chorus
The experts told us
The science showed us
But the ego of the POTUS
was to big to fight off again
Now everybody
knows somebody
We all know somebody
That died who could've lived
Verse 2
Distance is all I see
Distance, the distance
6 feet, no hugs for instance
or the distance between screens
But a whole 'nother kind of distance
Is killing us today
The space between the truth
And and what this white house has to say
Chorus
The experts told us
The science showed us
But the ego of the POTUS
Was to big to fight off again
Now everybody
knows somebody
We all know somebody
that died who could've lived
We all know somebody
We all know somebody
We all know somebody
that died who could've lived
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7. |
Talkin' RNC Blues
03:45
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was looking for adventure when I walked out front
I ain't left this house in months
Sittin' on the porch chain smokin' camels
Drinking like a drunk while the rain came down
So I got real high and I sat right down
I couldn't tell ya where I was bound
But all of a sudden I got where I was going
and buddy you won't believe what I found
Its crazy unbelievable
You see i went through a hallway
Up and down some stairs
I was underground for a while
The roots looked like hairs
With the humidity growing ten fold in the air
I wasn't surprised in the least
I was in Florida
Jacksonville
at The Republican national convention
Louis Gohmert was there
He was coughin' on everyone
Gaetz was wasted and baked
from a gas mask bong he was token on
Tom cotton was armed with his white out
and erasing the pages of our history
William p Barr Chad wolf and some others
Had the statue of liberty trapped in the northwestern corner
After tear gas flash bangs and beating her silly
an unmarked car drove her away
As I'm scanning the room
I catch a glimpse of Jim Jordan
He's alone and he's yelling and he thinks it's important
Then I see Ted Cruz come over and try to console him
and Jim's like “fuck off Ted, nobody likes you”
Poor teddy
Someone drew a mustache on the portrait of McCain
It ain't much of a mystery who would do such a thing
The word loser with two O's covered his name
and he had two horns coming out of his head
I'll give you three guesses, Judges? captain bonespurs will work
Pretty soon everybody made their way to their seats
It was time for the show, the crowd took to their feet
But right before that piece of shit started to speak....
Mike pence walks in with.. Susan Collins
Just the two of them ...together
Now everybody knows one thing about Mike
He can't go anywhere with a woman without the company of his wife
And it was right around then I woke up on the porch
realized I was having a dream of the nightmare sort
Now it certainly wasn't where I wished I had gone
But it is where we are until election day comes
I hope that we vote out everyone of these clowns
so the next time I leave I can go out of town.
please... i just wanna leave...safely
So for the sake of the country vote this election day
By mail, absentee or the old fashioned way
If you have to go out make sure you've got a mask
Lets all come together and take out the trash
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8. |
Driving Around
03:46
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There's a big ol' latin family
Walkin down nolensville pike
There's plastic between parties
At the diners
Masks on all our faces
On the ground or out of sight
and Democracy's on oxygen tonight
aint no shows to go to
got few friends losing touch
some family slow
to takin off their blinders
i love em still even though
we dont talk to much
every time we do we end up in a fight
hope is a long gone idea
like a dream you cant can't recall
I can barely make it out
I aint going anywhere
im just driving around
Yeah I'm just driving around
It's a ghost town where it counts now
but you know those tourists never quit
It's like a selfishness convention \
Every night on broadway
Drive up north a little ways
Where that big tornado hit
Theres still rubble up there from last March
That ain't been fixed
I saw the damage from a distance
That Christmas bomb laid bare
In a never ending year
that sure was a long day
This city's seen a lot of heartache
some that just aint fair
makes you wonder if its ever gonna end
hope is some long gone idea
like a dream you can't recall
I can barely make it out
I aint going anywhere
im just driving around
Making memories without sound
Absolutely nowhere bound
I'm just driving around
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9. |
Hope In America
03:28
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The gas lighting army
Is out here extinguishing the truth
with their bad faith arguments
All over airwaves, their victims
Mindlessly consume
A conspiracy here A conspiracy there
Pretty soon they all grow into one
in the vacuum of trust
desperate they lust For some sense in the chaos
what a fun Time to be an American
Now the color of the sky is a subjective
2 and 2 add up to whatever you want
There's a whole apparatus built to destroy
The objective truths we all use to enjoy
Now they're blowing up buildings
they're storming state capital
Fueled by some fascistic troll and his rage
It's the craziest thing it's a shame
what a strange time to be an american
Now what is and what isn't Is somehow up in the air
And we're all out here fighting
About How it got there
But the truth is the truth hasn't gone anywhere
but there is this tower of lie
folks always vacation there
Well back here in the real world
Something is building People from all walks of life are demanding
some structural change im amazed
hope could still be alive in america
It's the craziest thing it's insane
hope is somehow alive in america
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Lyrically driven Folk & Americana. Based in Nashville TN. Kaston & Nick have been playing and singing together for 14+ years. They grew up together in Missouri and have settled down in Nashville TN to write songs and make records.
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