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lyrics

left right left right
march to the subway
where the lions are and the children play in ashes
and fear lives inside the information booth
selling weekly passes to the children
whose parents threw themselves in front of the trains

melodies of hatred play on the rails
as fear watches the children dance
“kill yourself
kill someone else”
children play their parents’ games
children play
laughing at the ashes
laughing at the fire
laughing at our graves
only children’s games

march to the subway where the lions are
children play in ashes digging our graves
they sign the papers for the man
smoking hate in his pipe
he hands them shovels and an empty field
and gives away our lives
and they dance around our graves, laughing

fear gives them their paychecks
and reads the scriptures
underground, marching drowns all our screams

and they laugh

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from Disease Is Relative, released April 30, 2021
Bruce Allen - drums
Robert Griffin - vocals, piano, lyrics
Andrew Marec - bass
Chris Marec - guitar, music

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Spike in Vain Cleveland, Ohio

High priests of chromaticism and absurdity, 1982-1985 Cleveland. Vox, gtr, bass shared by Robert Griffin, Andrew Marec, and Chris Marec, with Bruce Allen (82-84) and Scott Pickering (84-85) on drums.

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