These are not songs of revolution,
nor am I a revolutionary.
These simple songs are for your spirit,
In its eternal quest to be free.
These are not days for serving too many,
these are not days for serving just one.
These days I count as my blessings,
I thank my God for the rising sun.
But I’m at that point where I’ve had it with your narrow-minded views.
Cause I’ve heard your lies too many times on the television news…. Your giving me…
Contemporary, arbitrary, your compassions the Tooth fairy, big box blues!
How can you stand there and plan there to land there and ban there human right to choose?
So take your hand off me land off me while you stand on my freedom is not yours to abuse.
Your giving me the blues, contemporary blues…
These are not hands for building fences,
Nor will they ever take up arms.
These hands where meant to be holding,
a love with which my memory torments me.
These are not lives to bomb from heaven
or to count collaterally.
Our lives are meant to be lived,
Each one blessed equally.
And I don’t want you to think I don’t care about you.
Cause the same sun that rises on me, it rises on you… its just your giving me…
Contemporary, arbitrary, your compassions the Tooth fairy, big box blues!
How can you stand there and plan there to land there and ban there human right to choose?
So take your hand off me land off me while you stand on my freedom is not yours to abuse.
Your giving me the blues, contemporary blues…
Contemporary, arbitrary, your compassions the Tooth fairy, big box blues!
How can you stand there and plan there to land there and ban there human right to choose?
So take your hand off me land off me while you stand on my freedom is not yours to abuse.
Your giving me the blues, contemporary blues…
Your giving me theee Blues……..
Trumpets!
BOOM BOP….. SHALA LA LA LA LA BOOM BOP!
credits
from Coast,
released April 1, 2011
Drums & Trumpet- Heather Bears
Lead Guitar & back up vocals- Keith Leinweber
Bass- Joe Bennett
Vocals & Rythme guitar- Rika
Djembe- Erin Sharp
A reverb-soaked tribute to instrumental surf group the Astronauts from Lorenzo “Surfer Joe” Valdambrini and Berlin band the Kilaueas. Bandcamp New & Notable Aug 29, 2019
