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    EB's second album, featuring massive all-star lineup, including Roland Alphonso on his last studio recording, "God's Little Girl." "Simpatica" was recorded and mixed by Clement "Coxsone" Dodd at Musik City, Brooklyn.

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engineered by C. S. Dodd, Muzik City, Brooklyn, May 1997
Featuring Paul Finger on vocal & Tony Jarvis on tenor saxophone

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Murder One: the first to make me cry.
Even allies tell me we can’t stop the drip,
drops of young blood fogging my eye.
In front of the schoolyard Mr. Bad Card
empties the clip, schoolkids
hang back or shoot back and set trip.

Killing claims so many souls; I must survive.

Simpatica, mother of Attica,
heed my emphatical pleas to save my life.
Simpatica, I ain’t mad; I’m just
waiting for the rude symphony, electric tympani,
and fife. Save my life.

You gotta get yours; I send away for bridal brochures,
linger lightly on the mouse in my safe white house,
log on as agitator, thief, and voyeur,
wait for the goddess to grace my face,
take my tears away, brighten up this place.

Lovelessness in so many lives, I can’t believe.

Simpatica, mother of Attica,
heed my emphatical pleas to save my life.
Simpatica, I ain’t mad; I’m just
waiting for the rude symphony, electric tympani,
and fife. Save my life.

Learning is at a lingering lifetime low,
the youth not trying to hear the truth.
I said, Listen up, listen up youth:
killing is no no cheap time filling.
Don’t take your guns to town, hang on to your youth.

Killing kills the killer’s soul, they got to know. Seize control!

Simpatica, mother of Attica,
heed my emphatical pleas to save my life.
Simpatica, I ain’t mad at cha,
waiting for the rude symphony, electric tympani,
and fife. Save my life.

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from Eric Blowtorch and his Superpowers Flame On​!​!, released December 1, 1999

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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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