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Tell me, tell me, tell me

Tell me, did you feel
when you were 17
that you could come up and save all sanity, seize the day?

Did you get drunk and say
your 21st birthday
that everything would be all right and then it wasn’t?

You could never in your wildest nightmares
touch the turbine that drives the brokers
mad with power
and drives the working man to an early death

Did you pass out papers
in the cold winter air?
Did you hand in proceeds with hardly a care? Did you dig

the Republicrat Party
when you got jaded on G_d
You couldn’t care anymore, yes, you accepted your lot

Still you could never in the red rage of youth
discern the horrible truth
that man will do as he is bred
and you were merely bred to be led

The powerful people stare out in disbelief
at a scorched planet surface in zero relief
The powerbrokers take the train to the subterrain
‘cause isotopes take too long to decay

If you ever glom on
to anything in common
with the power-crazed, money-hungry zealot of the Right,

don’t shudder rubbing shoulders
Outside is where it’s coldest
See your light in the dying of someone else’s
See your light in the dying of someone else’s
See your light in the dying of someone else’s light

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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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