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NY street sounds courtesy Anne Beaumont & Brian McDevitt

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In the city of sufferation
sufferers find crumbs from a slummer’s vacation
Scows used to drag the garbage to the ocean
Cheap labor still keeps cash in motion

In the city of suffocation
flowers rise up out the cracks in the Ford Foundation
The promised land of old was Goshen
Now peddlers can’t even peddle own lotions

Sufferers climb 10 stories to paint their name
in a city that promises nothing but famine and flame

In the city of such frustration
teen queen dreams of love at underground train station
Young warriors step with aggression
and extend their little friend to fend off the depression

Fortune was never the artist’s and who wants fame?
Not you, not me – who can you blame?

In the city of segregation
families live and die in one square mile for generations
in the heart of the planet, in the bowels, in this iration
in the city of sufferation

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from Eric Blowtorch Plays Himself​!​!, track released January 1, 2013

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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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