Today my red white and blue wears black
When colors run like they did
No one’s coming back
Hands up
Hands up
We wake
We make our meaning
Come from mothers
Check our hearts
We love our hometowns
Feel a burn in fire
Grow apart
Brothers I didn’t know you
Brothers I didn’t know your names
Today, to one more daughter
Someone’s son
Killed in somebody else’s name
Hands up
Hands up
Hands up
How many how many years
you gonna gonna
Keep on continue to load that thing?
How many how many years
you gonna gonna
Keep on continue to load that thing?
How many how many years
you gonna gonna
Keep on continue to say that thing?
That its somebody’s fault, not ours
That its nobody’s fault that the rest of us have
lost our minds living so long inside a freefall
I want to put the top down
I want to cruise to the boardwalk
I want to dance all night with some pretty girl
and suffer in small talk
I want to watch the game
Hear Miles and Trane and
Laugh with the top down
I hope I will one day again.
I want to go to church
I want to sing in my safe place
I want to disco with my thang turndt up
I want this love
I want your love
I want to love you for nothing
I hope I’m not so scared I stop
How many how many years
we gonna gonna
Keep on continue to load this thing?
How many how many years
we gonna gonna
Keep on continue to load this thing?
How many how many years
we gonna gonna
Keep on continue to say these things?
That its nobody’s fault but ours
That its nobody’s fault that the rest of us have
lost our minds living so long inside a freefall.
credits
from Long Arc,
released June 22, 2016
Music: Sasha Brown & Heather Christian
Lyrics: Heather Christian & Sasha Brown
Soulful guitar interplay form the heart of this lovely Americana collaboration from Dave Alvin and Jimmie Dale Gilmore. Bandcamp New & Notable Mar 2, 2018