Name: no gods no kings
Duration: P00H04M19S
Description: this was another "wake up with an idea and crank out a demo in a day" song, which started as a first line and hook in my voice recorder and devolved from there into the kind of excessive synthesizer shenanigans we thought we'd left under the mersey wall.

no gods no kings

by John McDaid

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this was another "wake up with an idea and crank out a demo in a day" song, which started as a first line and hook in my voice recorder and devolved from there into the kind of excessive synthesizer shenanigans we thought we'd left under the mersey wall.

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i was raised
to carry a cross
conditioned
to worship the boss
sentenced
to a life of
hard labor and pain
and i was paid
to lose again and again
and again and again
and again and again

i was tortured
by hope
i was forced to
live my life laid open
like a blood cell under a microscope
now before the possibility
is lost
we gotta learn speak the truth
no matter what the cost

CHORUS
no gods no kings
no gods no kings
it's time to admit we're on our own
no gods no kings
no gods no kings
just the world we planned where we can stand
alone

i was conditioned
to live in fear
expected to ignore
mncs destroying the biosphere
all the wisdom that the system
cannot contain
every record of your life disappears
like replicant tears in rain

CHORUS

now we're rising
we're woke
we're risking
everything we own
and we're gonna have to go for broke
we have a mission
and a goal
we gotta straight arm these fascists
and climb out of this hole

CHORUS

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released March 12, 2024

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John McDaid Portsmouth, Rhode Island

Award-winning science fiction writer, freelance journalist, folk/filk singer-songwriter.

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