"Mankind."
That word should have new meaning for all of us today.
We can't be consumed by our petty differences anymore.
We will be united in our common interests.
Perhaps it's fate that today is the Fourth of July,
and you will once again be fighting for our freedom...
Not from tyranny, oppression, or persecution...
But from annihilation.
We are fighting for our right to live.
To exist.
And should we win the day,
the Fourth of July will no longer be known as an American holiday
But as the day the world declared in one voice: "We will not go quietly into the night!"
We will not vanish without a fight!
We're going to live on!
We're going to survive!
Today we celebrate our Independence Day!
As I wait for sleep to drag me under
In the evening gloom I sit and wonder
The words I should have said to you
The things I always meant to do
The bad dreams that all came true
You woke up my neighbourhood
Night after night we would row
You woke up my neighbourhood
Things and pretty quiet round here now
When I think of how we were together
I know we couldn't be like that forever
Beneath the Seven Sister stars
The night we let it go too far
I slept out in the car
I remember skipping on the porch till it grew cold
I remember feeling like I was eight years old
Somersaults across the lawn
Singing dancing up till dawn
Every now and then we'd have a row
You woke up my neighborhood
Things and pretty quiet round here now
Better apart, watching destruction from afar
Staying around became too hard
Some men they strive for being alive
So, I'm singing goodbye to Butter Bean
Not like I won't think about her forever
Or regret things I never said
Breaking down will be much easier
When I've said goodbye to Butter Bean
You can do what ever phases you
I can do nothing to change your mind
So singular the way emotions play
So, I'm singing goodbye to Butter Bean
about
Recorded in Craig Woods' basement through a series of microphones and cables.
credits
released July 4, 2011
Catharine Park created the album artwork.
Jessica Daws, Chris Daws and Patrick Driscoll discovered horse saxman...
Billy Bragg wrote the song "You Woke Up My Neighborhood" and I hope he doesn't mind me covering it...
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