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Flag of the Shiners

by State Radio

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1.
Mountain 05:10
Up on over the mountain, where it's keepers stay Causin' all that racket boy, they been doing that all day And if you could find one I wouldn't take him on 'Cause those boys are as clever now as the day is long But he who holds the north wall Has come to save his mortal kin Back from the eastern wars they tell you what they've seen, Mountains knelt for dreadful armies and their new man machine And the days they are retreating just as the condor steals his keep And it's taking me over It's taking me over It's taking me over It's taking me over (Don't you see) We're all useless, here in your new society Estranged in our own land On the earth of our father's hand we swear To remember that we're not alone child Up on over the mountain East to the end Those who desire a fitfull affair on the knowledge of all men But let you be forewarned from North to South Whatever your burn is yours and no one else Beyond the seventh hour And takin' beyond the saturn's shade Take your leave young prowler And takin' beyond the balance made It's takin' me over... On this crowd of hollowed mirth It's taking me over... (Don't you see) We're all useless here in your new society Estranged in our own land On the earth of our father's hand We swear to remember That we're not alone, child We're not alone, child We're not alone, child... Now know you leave you falter...
2.
Let me trip the reason of your lecture for a change Let me tell you how you feel Let me strap you down and put morphine in your veins Let me share this bed of steel 'Cause here comes the State Inspector So doctor all the resident records Truth is he really don't care less It's just the function of the politics and business Oh the squalor Oh the squalor Let it empty me Welcome to whatever God may do It's no secret that you'll never leave 'Cause here comes the State Inspector So doctor all the resident records Truth is he really don't care less It's just the function of the politics and business Deinstitutionalization Had a wife but left her at the station Now there's women in the stairwells Where their love lives don't fair well Whoring themselves away in the kitchen But look see that woman gettin' all dressed up Putting on her earrings and her makeup And in another world there's a long necked girl Who's wishing she'd never been a grown up Oh the squalor Oh the squalor Let it empty me Welcome to whatever God may do It's no secret that you'll never leave Maybe today I wont get the wrong meds Maybe today I'll get my 46 cents And maybe today I'll jump that barbed wire fence And leave this place all together 'Cause were callin' all the presidents men 'Cause I’m stuck in this room locked in Do me a favor and give me ten so I can peek into the hallway again Oh the squalor Oh the squalor Let it empty me Welcome to whatever God may do It's no secret that you'll never leave
3.
On the one they'll catch ya If you skirt disaster On the day they told her But she want to stay, stay And the ones that saw ya Witnesses of Goya Elected to serve ya 'Till your dying day 'Till your dying day I hope you don't get what you're after I hope you don't get what you're after To whom it may concern I'm writing on behalf of a brother Twice burned Do you be reachin' your time Just a product of your mind But when you continue to let loose on the running man You send him crashing to the edge of the pavement You're doing something you don't quite understand Makin' like he's a lesser man So be gone be gone to plea Just give me your vehicle to ride on You're doing something you don't quite understand Making like he's a lesser man In your Gunship gunship Gunship politico I hope you don't get what you're after In your Gunship gunship Gunship politico I hope you don't get what you're after I know you're reaching your time Just a product of your mind But when you continue to let loose on the runnin' man You send him crashing to the edge of the pavement You're doing something you don't quite understand Makin' like he's a lesser man. So be gone be gone to plea You got your vehicle to ride on Off to the commissioner as fast as you can With your smoking gun in hand. In your Gunship gunship Gunship politico I hope you don't get what you're after In your Gunship gunship Gunship politico I hope you don't get what you're after In your gunship, gunship Gunship, gunship In your gunship, gunship Gunship, gunship Six men on their knees eyes shinin' in the High beams of the searchlight Cop's shadows on the wall, several stories tall Instilling whoa such a fright One's kicked in the gut; he's all cut up by the corner cop One stands in defense in a broken sentence Ask not to be shot If you please You men of authority We do not speak your language see Please act accordingly 'Cause he wasn't beggin' He was just keeping time with his cup You go on and believe that You keep your eyes straight up I was just looking I had no intention to touch But I know when I'm not welcome So I thank you very much. See A, See A; see the women there demonstrate See A, See A, see them know but they will not say See A, See A, see them set the trial date See A, See A, see the confidence on the DA's face Watch out for them politicos Watch out for them politico Watch out for them politicos Watch out for them politico Don't mess mess with the down downpresser way They got it down pat; they got it down to a tee And no one gets through the lockstep jaw You 'aint guilty but you did get caught So for lack for a better suspect we nominate you To ride this one out, to see this one through See A, See A See A, See A Arms thrown up in a ever fearful protest As if the firing squad would ever think to notice As if he could summon the likes of Moses To put blood back in his friends veins And if you're one step faster You can skirt disaster But if it's not you, it'll be the next guy Who's the wrong color at the wrong time Another day is over and the decision still stands His honor in his chambers still washin' his hands You know he's been fiddlin' in his room all day Just trying to wash all his conscience away No one's asking for hangman's tree They just looking for something true to believe in See A, See A See them know but they will not say He wasn't beggin' he was just keeping time with his cup He wasn't beggin' he was just keeping time with his cup You go on and believe that You keep your eyes straight up 'Cause I was just looking I had no intention to touch I was just looking I had no intention to touch And I know when I'm not welcome so I thank you very much
4.
Uncertain 04:42
Heavy from walking We stopped for the night Lettin' the shallow river unnerve our fright But night fell on us before dawn 'Till all of our hope was all but gone If every man lay down his gun We would no longer be 'Cause your war is your sickness And so it's our disease Oh distant constant quarrelling lot Your risk is greater than what you've got Up in your highroom You drag us along, the long road Of our brothers gone We didn't fight back We fought to escape Smuggling gasoline for food Before we were of age 'Cause your war is your sickness And so it's our disease Oh distant constant quarrelling lot Your risk is greater than what you've got Up in your highroom You carry us along, the long road Of our brothers gone 'Cause we are so uncertain Of the future, that we may face And we don't like the burning Up of everything we had in place Some day we will be replaced by the guns of the sons and their fatherless rage And we are not deserting But we see no course to take No like a curtain falls And heralds the curtain calls Comrad come alike Time is no ally Little one are you in or out So quiet and so devout Can you resign yourself To accept a better hell We'll not fall in their curse Facing life in prison or possibly worse Our fathers are calling mass Asking us to drink from the pain of their past life Oh distant constant quarrelling lot Your risk is greater than what you've got Up in your highroom You carry us along, the long road Of our brothers gone 'Cause we are so uncertain Of the future, that we may face And we don't like the burning Of everything we had in place Someday we will be replaced by the guns of the sons and their fatherless rage And we are not deserting But we see no course to take In the riot of your machine gun ways
5.
Ill Advised 02:50
To what do we owe this occasion? My life is falling out of reason To what do we owe this occasion? My life is falling out of reason So wake my cell. Oh how your faces light up this day Well my friends, gather round It seems my mind, is not so sound Oh how your faces light up this day 'Cause I am ill advised to feel That the inner lives are real And ill advised to call upon the hour of this day And I’m sanitized and still, movin for the kill I’m ill advised to call upon the hour of what may I, I, I x4 Oh how your faces light up this day And this hour, and on this ground 'Cause I am ill advised to feel That the inner lives are real And ill advised to call upon the hour of this day And I’m sanitized and still, you move in for the kill I’m ill advised to call upon the hour of what may To what do I owe this occasion? My life is fallin' out of reason I'm not so All my insides I'm not so right like them I'm not so All my insides I'm not so right like them Right like them Not in this hour or on this ground
6.
Dear man, you must be mad Good man, how many drinks have you had? Don't you know? Your family's worried sick over you In any event we have no time to spare The canvas of your age has a tear And a needle without a thread does not a life mend Mamma's worked yourself into a terrible fret Keep saying, "You can see him" And we say, "Not quite yet." Oh, not quite yet All quiet on the streets we hear the footsteps echo Kids run up the stairs and look down from below But the streetlight flickers Mamma gets sicker She says she's goin' to the place where no one twice goes So I had to come and arrest you from your sleep You see you got too many promises to keep And what's more they be dying of starvation With all the food on this world there still be famine in this here nation You know you love them but they really don't know How can they see where the poison go? 'Cause it's far, far better thing than I've ever done For you to become the father to your only son Look long at the father before you Sits with his hands on his knees 'cause he don't know what to do In his old tweed coat and his dress shoes Furrowed brow and the eyes of the confused Tries desperately to explain his Subsequent recluse In the remainder of his days I know he old but mind you How the years go by in a second or two Won't be long to your kids are lookin' at you Just as you are now Just as you are now Turn around, my good man, turn around Turn around, my good man, Margaret Brown Turn around, my good man, turn around Turn around, for dear Margaret Brown Turn around, my good man, turn around Turn around, make your way down Turn around, my good man, turn around Turn around, for dear dear Margaret Brown.

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released November 5, 2002

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