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Operation Bus Ride

by Operation Bus Ride

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As I drove into the darkness I tell you this is what I saw 100,000 people who do not want this war Below the Mason-Dixon line Among the stars and stripes Were those old Confederate flags Just flying in the night Maybe it's not all racist shit Like it seems to me But simply a way of Remembering history And it's important to remember your past So it does not repeat I see history in each lonely face That passes on the street As I drove into the darkness I tell you this is what I saw 100,000 people who do not want this war I saw the towns of Pennsylvania Glittering beneath me As I drove across the surging waters Of the Allegheny These are hard-working towns Forged with steel ties And the media and the government Pulls wool over their eyes So I'll sing them a song And I'll repeat it without end The enemy of your enemy Is not always your friend As I drove into the darkness I tell you this is what I saw 100,000 people who do not want this war When I hit the Midwest fields With their lack of hills and trees I saw faded sheets with scribbled letters Flapping in the breeze The sun had bleached them out On each highway overpass The torn and tattered messages Of "God Bless The US" And I thought to myself Yes, that's partly true Goddess bless us here But bless the other countries too
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Once upon a time, there was a revolution The kids wrote it down on paper, and passed it to their friends But now we're in a time without social evolution And the morgue has just announced that the revolution's dead Once upon a time, our hearts were all on fire We doused them all with gasoline and struck the matches hard But we've all forgotten how to rub the sticks together And we can't even start the fire in our own backyard Once upon a time, our art was all important We had respect for each other and united in the fight Now all we do is bitch and whine, and divide and conquer We all criticize each other and we sit alone at night We're at a time when we need a revolution We can write it down and paper, and pass it to our friends Let's all create together, some social evolution We'll fuck shit up to show them that it was never dead
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Shut yer eyes, tight My heart once beat in time Now I'm heartless, I don't care about anyone Not even myself The sky is going to shout I won't die for you anymore, I won't die for you anymore I won't die for you anymore We must tell the king
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the china teacup, too fragile for this world. thrown against the wall again; shattering. his gentle hands will rescue it and glue the pieces back together. you can see the hairline fractures, the fine lines of many breaks. imperfection. but he loves the teacup. he will always be there to glue it back together.
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I drew our initials in the sand, and there they stayed Until the waves washed them away It feels like they're taking you, too And I don't understand why I'm losing you I used to hold your hand, and I kept you in my heart But in this movie there comes a part Where I have to pretend we're not lovers And maybe we're not, I can no longer tell Why don't you tell me those secrets now? They made me feel sweet and whole Why can't we hold each other tight Except for in my dreams at night? You've gone out with the tide You don't care anymore That you left me lonely on the shore Waving my white flag of defeat
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You think you own my body You think it's a playground for you Put implants in, put makeup on Remove all my tattoos You seem so eager to manipulate me To make me alter my nature But if I am to get pregnant I have to keep the baby You're messing with god's will, you say But getting a nose job isn't? Hangers are for putting clothes on And I'll tell you what my body isn't It is not your playground It is not your mannequin It does not belong to you I HAVE THE RIGHT TO MY OWN BODY
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Alice is bleeding She's down on her knees And the moon is a skull in the sky Always crying and pleading To the bats on the ceiling And the wind with the sound of a sigh Her bottle always hears her Loud and clear Shards in the weeds, and the falling red leaves When the moon is a skull in the sky And her heart is all run dry Alice is bleeding, like lipstick on a cigarette Alice is pleading to the ghosts rustling the leaves Screaming by train tracks And the moon is a skull in the sky

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Operation Bus Ride was the name of my solo musical project from the '90s through the early '00s. All of the songs on this album were written and recorded during that time. There is some tape hiss/tape warp present in some of the songs, because of the age of the cassette this was converted from, but I think that adds character!

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released June 12, 2015

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One Beer Prophet is a smoky-voiced siren from the trainyards of the Rust Belt. Pulling up the dark roots of Americana, she tells the stories of what happens after the train is hopped and the whiskey drank. She is skinned knees and dirt under your nails, the night you fell in love and the morning your heart was broken, 3am and another bottle of wine - or beer. ... more

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