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I Tried and Failed and Cleaned Up Afterwards, So It's Your Turn Now​.​.​.

from Circuit Crooks by Twenty Centuries of Stony Sleep

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I’m building a wall all around brick by brick
It’s fifty miles high, a hundred miles thick
When I’m done I’ll lie down cause it’s making me sick
All these liars who lied, meanwhile outside

All the people we knew were all killing each other
Never a time when they loved one another
It’s not a surprise every son every brother
Is marching to war with both hands on the trigger

They’re free
That’s what god told our generals last week
Take those sinners and make them believe
And if they resist make them bleed

All the people we hate lie face down in the mud
They’re begging for water and choking on blood
And the rain it pours down like the lord’s holy flood
By the end of the day it will wash them away

And when we get home we will rinse our hands clean
Bathe in crude oil and toast gasoline
Now the rich will get richer tanned fat and mean
And we’ll all cruise around in our pleasure machines

Cause we’re free
That’s what god told our generals last week
Take those sinners and make them believe
And if they refuse make them bleed

I’m building a wall all around brick by brick
It’s fifty miles high, a hundred miles thick
And I’ll leave it behind, Cause if I have to pick
Then I choose to let go all these things that I know

I won’t say my goodbye’s, I don’t send my regards
I’ll slip out in the night through the bullets and guards
And year after year other wars will rage on
And the bombs will be falling long after I’m gone

Cause they’re free
That’s what god told his generals last week
Take those pagans and make them believe
When they refuse make them bleed

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from Circuit Crooks, released January 1, 2012

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"TCOSS feels like the Second Coming of nineties indie rock. You can imagine these guys spending late nights listening to Surfer Rosa, Slanted and Enchanted, and The Lonesome Crowded West."
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