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Eleven Alive
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Calorie Bomb
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Teach Me
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Poison In My Well
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Heroes?
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Fortunata
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NASA
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I Come From Nowhere
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With You,Without You
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- about
- Recorded live on 11/11/11 at Black & Blue, Easton, PA.
Please play loudly!!
Produced by Doug Hawk
Engineered, mixed and mastered by Jim McGee of SpectraSound Recording. Nazareth, PA.
CD art by Matt Nixon. Layout by Leo Vasquez. - credits
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released 16 January 2012
Doug Hawk - vox.keys
Mike Lorenz - guitar
Lee Clarke - bass
Paul Wells - drums - tags
- tags: gil scott-heron jamiroquai r&b soul r&b/soul steely dan stevie wonder funk jazz pop positive music protest songs r&b Easton
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His compositions are more positive affirmation than they are songs. This is intelligent, inspiring, grooving music that not ... more only makes you think but groove, as well. Lyrically topical with a positive message. Comparisons to artists such as Stevie Wonder, Jamiroquai, Steely Dan and Gill Scott-Heron are accurate but in a purely derivative sense. Hawk has emphatically created his own unique sound less
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- Track Name: Calorie Bomb
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It ain't rational what we do. It doesn't make much sense.
People eating poison being plied as food.
It's a capital offense.
It's all because we eat wrong feast while families starve.
Eat because a sad song made us feel depression
Look at how it's all made. Try to appreciate
how we are with everything. Nothing can make you separate.
See how this system propagates the symptoms.
Takes your hand puts your finger on the trigger of a calorie bomb.
The rules being written underscore the truth.
Corruptive greed so evident
Notice how the more they try to take control
That they actually get less
Try to stop this slave trade started by conglomerates
who blindly made one farm from all this was built upon
Saving woman, child, man giving everyone a chance
For a noble life lived getting better than the give
Won't you wake us all up from this slumber?
Predicated by another. Medicated getting dumber
from your calorie bomb.
There's no reason for someone to die
To lack then not survive. Die right before our eyes.
Everything we need to be complete, thriving human beings
Is right under our feet.
Believing what an ad says? Profit-driven nonsense.
They prey upon your sadness turn it into madness
All you pretty people who could be so hopeful
You keep on eating it exhibiting no discipline
See how your pride dies with every bloated mouthful
Wobble on by as you obliterate your system with a calorie bomb. - Track Name: Teach Me
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It's been a while since you went away.
There's a big, empty space where you left our race.
It would help if I could see your face
to know that somewhere there's somebody to teach me.
Can you tell me why we worship the warriors
and end up shooting the lovers?
I think it's better that we saw individuals as a part of each other.
Brother killing brother and mother and other
Sister and a daughter it's an endless slaughter
We're only doing what we're taught
I'm begging on my knees.
I'm begging you to teach me, please.
I'm sick and tired of being alive in a day
where anger is all the rage.
Can somebody help me turn the page
read something else for a change?
Being scientific taught us to hate
to discriminate, vacate faith.
Well that lying learned us how to behave
to believe everything indiscriminately. - Track Name: Poison In My Well
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There’s poison in my well
They said it’s not enough to kill
But they’re saying it in such a way
It makes me think I better move today
It was the rich guy on the hill
An unnecessary spill
An act sadly preventable
Yet no remorse was shown at all
So I went to ask him why
Stared into his vacant eyes
Asked why he couldn’t empathize
He said it wasn’t in his bloodline
I took one look at this crook
standing there in the door
His empty treasures piled high on the floor
I knew he’d never let me in
So I told him that I loved him
Because that’s the only way to
make a man realize
his egoist ways have nearly brought
the whole world to its knees
this is our world
you can love it or you can leave. - Track Name: Heroes?
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I’m ‘bout to spit a bunch of shit that ain’t so popular
Don’t try to slander me or twist and rearrange my words
I hear so much about these heroes fightin’ overseas
Aren’t all these wars illegal? Of corporate decree?
Now we ain’t fightin’ for our freedom or to save the world
We’re just making customers out of these boys and girls
Create a marketplace with promises of all you need
Monopolize commodities, communities set up to bleed
Do you notice how the propaganda be runnin’ its course?
Malicious front legitimizing cabbalistic use of force
Don’t try to question the direction that it’s headed to
This mass indoctrination alienates the best of you
Public opinion doesn’t allow for any critical thinkin’
There’s just one flavor of the Kool-Aid that they got you drinkin’
It sets the standard which the talking heads will argue from
but baseless claims create a platform you can’t stand upon
Open your eyes. It’s all just a lie.
Heroes of mine only fight for what is right.
I plan to sit upon a rocking chair in my old age
On a porch with revolutionary figures that defied the state
Of obedience to dominance of military ways
Entire generations taught that it’s acceptable to take
Life or limb from foes or kin
And then rinse. Repeat. Do it over again. - Track Name: Fortunata
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I’m ‘bout to spit a bunch of shit that ain’t so popular
Don’t try to slander me or twist and rearrange my words
I hear so much about these heroes fightin’ overseas
Aren’t all these wars illegal? Of corporate decree?
Now we ain’t fightin’ for our freedom or to save the world
We’re just making customers out of these boys and girls
Create a marketplace with promises of all you need
Monopolize commodities, communities set up to bleed
Do you notice how the propaganda be runnin’ its course?
Malicious front legitimizing cabbalistic use of force
Don’t try to question the direction that it’s headed to
This mass indoctrination alienates the best of you
Public opinion doesn’t allow for any critical thinkin’
There’s just one flavor of the Kool-Aid that they got you drinkin’
It sets the standard which the talking heads will argue from
but baseless claims create a platform you can’t stand upon
Open your eyes. It’s all just a lie.
Heroes of mine only fight for what is right.
I plan to sit upon a rocking chair in my old age
On a porch with revolutionary figures that defied the state
Of obedience to dominance of military ways
Entire generations taught that it’s acceptable to take
Life or limb from foes or kin
And then rinse. Repeat. Do it over again. - Track Name: Caught In A Quiet Room (Alive)
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I'm caught in a quiet room
with no one to listen to me
it's not the way I choose to be.
An empty seat next to me
the seed of my destiny
keeping the best of me from you
Life is such misery. Life just won't set me free.
How can one love at all when all that they've loved is gone?
Take what she's given you
and keep it right next to you
let all your words be true, indeed.
For tomorrow may never come
where nothing can be undone
where I am the only one in need.
It's the best and the worst of things
that the twist of this tragedy
is how something so sad can lead to so much growth.
A basic dichotomy just like the front and the back of me
all alone with a memory of me and you.
Life is a mystery. Life's more than history.
Where it has been is gone. The best thing is to move on.
Live on. - Track Name: Words
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Words shouldn't make you do nothing unless it's what you wanted
Words can't lead nobody if they doesn't want to be led
Words are merely suggestions. Uniquely human inventions
Utilized to cloud intent. To blur what a deed means to do
To pull the wool over you
Read between the lines. That's where truth resides.
(You'll find it there every time)
Gotta look into their eyes. Their mouths are full of lies
A double-speaking enterprise
Words are just a grouping of symbols
Congregate to give you an earful
Repeated to impress upon the people that their living is dead.
Words are less better than actions
Turn family to opposite factions
The difference lies with intent
So mean what you say what you mean what you do
Stand up to what they're trying to do
For words can also be divine
Amplify the joy and holiness of humankind
It's all how we decide to accept the positive vibe
From every possible side - Track Name: Whatever Happened To Kings?
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Whatever happened to kings?
The bloodline never dies.
It's still the same old thing
wearing a different disguise.
They still be keeping you down
run you into the ground
They hypnotize -- rule your world with lies
Kings used to wear a crown
lived in a castle on high
But now they're dressing down
slither into suits and their ties
They still be keeping you down
run you into the ground
Monopolize. Make your world their prize.
Well it's about time you paid more mind
to noticing the signs that honor YOUR majesty
'Cause that's the one thing
The way to slay a king? Never let 'em in.
Their purpose is to put you away -- and keep you that way - Track Name: NASA
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Take this place - look at what it used to be
So disgraced - a populated apathy
There's no wrong 'cause nobody ever does it right
Endless days eventually destroy the night. It comes back to bite.
Take a little look at your patriotic lean
Politely grease the guts of a killing machine
You wonder why everybody hates our breed
I know it ain't because somebody tells you you are free
That's not how it be
If we keep fighting foreign wars, mounting death on foreign shores
There'll be nothing at the end that is worth fighting for
Remember when we did things good?
Remember when we used to do things good?
Remember when we just did good?
If we keep fighting foreign wars, mounting debt on foreign shores
There'll be nothing at the end that is worth fighting for
Remember when we did things good?
Remember when we used to do things good?
Remember when we just did good? - Track Name: I Come From Nowhere
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I come from nowhere and
nothing is what I'm made of
I'm just trapped here in
my soul's chosen home
Let's make this one thing clear
I'd rather be none or noone
Just an idea - part of one collective whole
So when I know it's time to go
when I feel it's time to leave
I have no fear -
There's something more.
Eyes unclosed.
Dispatch with anything that tells you how to live
base your ideals on unrelenting 'truths'
Your faith is so sever
but there's nothing that's as sacred as having no fear
of being all alone
So when you know it's time to go
when you feel it's time to leave
have no fear there's something more --
eyes unclosed.
Say something that's not what you've been told.
Take hold of that which you are owed.
Lead a life that's guided by your soul.
