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Eric Blowtorch and the Uptown Prophets - Brooklyn Unbound

from God's Will Be Done by Eric Blowtorch and the Dread City All-Stars

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lyrics

Bed-Stuy – do or die – dreadlock rhythm soul the I
The musical messiah – DJ Lando Land on mixer and Technics Mark Zwei

Nothing sounded like the screaming sound of youth
Nothing accelerates like justice overdue
Nothing in my sleep I dream about, remember for hours, amaze myself
Nothing amazes me like the youthful hunger for justice
not yet run aground – Brooklyn unbound

We rolled deep at a young age, truth in every page
Syllables and half-tones rage against the everybody
You put a brick through the Woolworth that we worked at

Knowledge kicked like from a trigger squeeze
The breeze of youth illuminates the long night
marked by bigotry’s last desperate stand
and the self-deluding wastefulness of the disciples of Ayn Rand

Nothing made you happier when your brother’s wife gave birth: a boy
Nothing hurts like when drinking beers elicits no illicit tears of joy
Nothing from nothing – Billy Preston had it all – so did we all
Standing tall?
Nothing from that era worth saving but the hatred
Do it astound? Hatred unbound

Hatred deep, so deep at a young age, so volatile, so hard to gauge
Unity, diversity compatible – nothing, Pops, it’s just a stage
In daily trials of ideals another truth you reveal
The aging process reversed, rebirth of friendship warms the winter with tears
We eschew selfishness of the spiritually senile

In half a one-drop bassline we dropped the weak hearts
and the joy was shared by all
In the half-empty concert hall you had your first revelation
I had my first real love down at the Texas radio station

Even if our youth we can’t retrieve, all that stupid shit we said proved false long ago I still believe – belief unsound

Sometimes we all need the good tongue-lashing,
sometimes the double-cheeked kiss
Without meaning to embarrass you, I give you this

credits

from God's Will Be Done, released March 25, 2022
Organ, vocals: E.B.
Turntables, mixer, tambourine: DJ Lando Land
Bass: Michael McCutcheon
Drumkit: D. J. Brooks

Recorded at Walls Have Ears, Milwaukee
Engineered & mixed by William Stace
Thanks to A. David Schwartz & Avin Domnitz

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Eric Blowtorch Milwaukee, Wisconsin

Singer/guitarist/songwriter Eric Blowtorch sings, plays, and writes reggae, ska, rocksteady, soul, rock 'n' roll, funk, Latin, disco, hip-hop, Anglo-Afropop, and jazz songs with rhythm, melody, passion, and original comic timing. E. B. plays solo, in small combos, and with a band, Eric Blowtorch and the Bodyguards. ... more

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