"Jet fuel energy" to get you revved up for next January...

By Blurt Staff

Barry Adamson, of Magazine and Bad Seeds and a prolific film scorer, releases his next album in January, title tba. He is giving us the first taste with "Destination", a roaring garage anthem for the road with jet-fuel energy.

MP3: "Destination"

The video is available on barryadamson.com where you can also get the mp3.

 
About the record: Thirty-four years on from the first album he played on, the seminal Magazine's post-punk classic "Real Life," Barry has made an album that touches on the sonic stepping stones he's used year by year to pave his way to the present. The memories and experience from performing and taking his work across the world with Magazine, the Bad Seeds, Iggy Pop, The Gun Club, writing for David Lynch, Danny Boyle, being nominated for the Mercury Prize, scoring an Olivier award-winning ballet, scooping the Best Short Story gong at Italy's Piemonte Noir festival for his debut work of fiction and writing, directing and editing a movie whilst simultaneously heading back to grace the stage with a reformed Magazine during their triumphant 2009 tour have directly informed this album, coloring it with a steady, sure-handed experience that emanates from the swagger and fingertip fire of rock numbers  to emotive, yearning noir ballads and new wave inflicted power pop.
 

Only 1500 copies, each personally signed - and wait'll you see the price tag...

By Blurt Staff

On December 6 Elvis Costellow will release the 3-disc (CD, DVD, 10" vinyl EP) live box set, Elvis Costello & the Imposters: The Return Of The Spectacular Spinning Songbook!!!  (Ume), recorded over a 2-night stand at The Wiltern in Los Angeles on May 11 and 12, 2011. Limited to 1500 copies worldwide, each set is individually numbered with a special commemoration card personally signed by Costello.

The first disc is a CD recording culled from both nights' performances, shows which The Los Angeles Times said were "the kind of uniquely invigorating experience that warrants a buzzword all its own: inspiring."

The second disc is a DVD from Costello's show on May 12, 2011, including a special guest appearance by the Bangles. The DVD contains bonus footage including an alternate intro by Napoleon Dynamite (aka Costello), and behind-the-scenes moments captured with the Imposters - Steve Nieve, Davey Faragher and Pete Thomas -- as well as extra performances not included in the main set of the show.

The third disc is a 10-inch vinyl EP with four songs only available in this set. The super deluxe package includes a 40-page hardcover book packed with candid and concert photos, a tour diary of Costello's musings from each tour stop, a 20" x 30" concert tour poster and a limited edition postcard. This collection is housed in a lavish box complete with a spinning replica of "The Spectacular Spinning Songbook" on the front cover. 

"The Spectacular Spinning Songbook" made its first appearance in 1986 at the Beverly Theatre in Los Angeles during the "Costello Sings Again Tour." Earlier this year, Elvis Costello and the Imposters set out on The Revolver Tour and, for the first time in 25 years, Costello once again allowed his set-list to be chosen by "The Spectacular Spinning Songbook," a monumental game-show type wheel spun by select fans and featuring songs from National Ransom, plus new renditions of hits, rarities and very unexpected covers. Expanded from its initial short run in the spring to encompass summer and fall dates, the tour was greeted by popular acclaim and rave notice across the country, with Rolling Stone reporting, "Costello worked the stage like a burlesque-club emcee, cracking wise at a mile a minute and spinning a dandy's walking stick." 

Since the super deluxe version is a limited edition set, a single and double-disc version will be available next year.

Track listing:

DISC ONE

THE MUSIC

I Hope You're Happy Now

Heart of the City (Nick Lowe)

Mystery Dance

Radio Radio

Everyday I Write The Book

God Give Me Strength

Watching The Detectives

Tear Off Your Own Head (It's A Doll Revolution) featuring Susanna Hoffs of the Bangles

Out Of Time (Mick Jagger-Keith Richards)

I Want You

Stella Hurt

All Grown Up

Lipstick Vogue

Man out of Time

National Ransom

(What's So Funny 'bout) Peace, Love and Understanding

Recorded Live at THE WILTERN, Los Angeles, CA, May 11 & 12, 2011

DISC TWO

THE FILM

I Hope You're Happy Now

Heart Of The City (Nick Lowe)

Mystery Dance

Radio Radio

Clubland

God Give Me Strength

Tear Off Your Own Head (It's A Doll Revolution) featuring Susanna Hoffs of the Bangles

Out Of Time (Mick Jagger-Keith Richards)

I Want You

Everyday I Write The Book

Stella Hurt

A Slow Drag With Josephine

Jimmie Standing In The Rain

Alison

Earthbound

(What's So Funny 'bout) Peace, Love And Understanding

Bonus Tracks

Uncomplicated

Watching The Detectives

Monkey To Man

Filmed Live at THE WILTERN, Los Angeles, CA, May 12, 2011

DISC THREE (THE 10")

Side A:

Pump it Up (6/8)

Busted (Harlan Howard)

Side B:

Brilliant Mistake

Strict time

Neil Young, Tony Bennett, Eddie Vedder and the Foo Fighters bring down the house at Shoreline Amphitheatre (Mountain View, Calif.) on October 23, 2011.

By JUD COST

Unlike last year when it rained all-day on Sunday, pleasant temperatures in the high-70s helped make the 25th edition of Neil and Pegi Young's Bridge School Benefit Concert at Shoreline Amphitheatre, a real treat. As always, rain or shine, the genre-bending music, most of it acoustic, was nothing short of inspirational.

After a brief welcoming spot from Neil and Pegi Young that included "Sugar Mountain" and "I Am A Child," Devendra Banhart, a well-deserved sub for Jenny Lewis, opened the Sunday portion of the two-day affair. With his shaggy mane trimmed, Banhart seemed to suffer a brief attack of "the Sampson syndrome," hitting a couple of vocal clunkers. Maybe you could chalk it up to nerves, opening for a roster knee-deep in star-power. Once he shifted gears with a song warbled in Spanish (he spent his youth in Caracas, Venezuela), Banhart finished his short set in fine style. And he dedicated his last number to the recently departed Burt Jansch of U.K. folk band Pentangle.

Norah Jones and her fine back-up outfit, the Little Willies, had to look no farther than downtown Bakersfield for the inspiration to kick-start an air-tight set of honky tonk. It's a direction that Jones, Ravi Shankar's daughter, chose for her sophomore album, 2004's Feels Like Home, for good reason. Wearing a white safari helmet with a turquoise band, she revealed that the Little Willies had picked that name as a tribute to Willie Nelson and now, even with its demeaning sexual overtones, they were pretty much stuck with it.  Jones and the boys handled Eddy Arnold's "Tennessee Stud" and Dolly Parton's "Jolene" with the same stylistic grace she'd employed on her critically-lauded pop/jazz debut longplayer, Come Away With Me. And her Floyd Cramer-like ivory-tickling was a nice fit for Hank Williams' "Lovesick Blues."

Beck didn't play Hank's melancholy hit, but he dedicated his powerful set to the tenth (actually, the ninth) anniversary of Sea Change, his career-defining 2002 work whose heartbroken songs helped him recover from his split with a longtime girlfriend. With a battered, Neil-like stetson resting on his blonde mop, Beck made good use of a xylophone, whose glockenspiel-aping top end rode his tunes like a world-class surfer perched on a 30-footer at Mavericks, just over the hill near Half Moon Bay.

"Neil Young was one of the first to reach out to a new artist. He was right there," said a grateful Beck, who was joined onstage by Young for the latter's relatively obscure "Pocahontas." The show's host had sat in Saturday on the same tune without telling Beck ahead of time. "If I'd known he was going to do that, I'd have played that song last," Beck noted on Sunday. In keeping with the family vibe of this series, Beck brought his young son, Cosimo, up front to bang a tambourine on "Two Turntables and a Microphone." One of the day's warmest moments was the peewee hightailing it offstage afterwards with his long curls bouncing in the light breeze.

Mumford & Sons, a British acoustic folk act touted by Kinks frontman Ray Davies on his recent album of celebrity duets, got a great introductory response, presumably from all those who'd seen them play on Saturday's bill. They seem to cause the same kind of crowd havoc as U.S. stars the Avett Brothers, but the Avetts do the "Civil War-style punk rock" thing with only half the volume (and maybe twice the excitement). "It's so much nicer to see you all while the sun's still out," said frontman Lewis Mumford, before Neil Young joined in for a rousing version of his Crazy Horse-tailored crowd favorite "Dance, Dance, Dance."

The most surprising Bridge School 25 moment occurred when Carlos Santana played a set with Los Invisibles, a band he co-founded recently with his wife (and the band's drummer) Cindy. They opened with '50s pop standard "Autumn Leaves," done up to West Coast Jazz perfection with Carlos magically playing the part of Los Angeles guitarist Barney Kessel and Dave Matthews superbly filling the shoes of pianist Russ Freeman (with an occasional Erroll Garner flourish). I'd loved to have seen them continue in that vein, but they quickly shifted gears to a terrific Tito Puente-influenced Afro-Cuban big band sound. Most of the younger crowd who'd been on their feet for Mumford & Sons, sat slouched in their plastic seats for the jazz stuff. Santana thanked Neil Young for "being an architect of compassion" before returning to the more traditional Santana ballroom vibe of "Oye Como Va."

Eddie Vedder, solo, was easily the day's biggest unexpected treat. I'd briefly considered getting something to eat during his set. But I'm very glad I didn't. Accompanied by nothing more than an expensive version of that plastic dime-store ukulele you may have been given for Christmas, the extroverted Pearl Jam frontman preceded his set with an entertaining tale. "Last night I opened with a Neil Young song. I'm not gonna do that tonight. Big mistake. Neil told me, 'The only mistake was not telling me. We could have fucked it up together.' Oops, sorry about swearing in front of the [Bridge School] kids [seated onstage]. Neil and Pegi don't use the 'f-word."

Vedder made amends by dedicating the great death-rock classic, J. Frank Wilson's "Last Kiss," to one of the Bridge School graduates who'd recently earned a pair of degrees from UC Berkeley. "That's two more than I have," added Vedder, who further stoked the campfire-like feel with a heartwarming rendition of Patience & Prudence's "Tonight You Belong To Me," accompanied vocally by Arcade Fire's Regine Chassagne. He also brought out Jerry Hannan for a soundtrack gem from the Sean Penn-directed film Into The Wild. Next on Vedder's celebrity check-list was a real surprise. "Here's my friend Beck Hansen," said Vedder before they lit up a fine take of the Everly Brothers' "Sleepless Nights" with Beck on harmony. Vedder concluded his amazing program accompanied by Neil Young on Young's "Don't Cry No Tears Around Me." Whew!

The Foo Fighters ignited a NASA-like liquid nitrogen response under those in the audience of a certain, Nirvana-worshipping demographic. The 35-year-old in front of me was almost as much fun to watch as Dave Grohl & Co., themselves. He'd throw his left fist upward three or four times towards the stage, then punctuate it with the famous rock-star point to the heavens. At the height of Nirvana's fame, 20 years ago, Grohl (the trio's last drummer) said he felt "this is going to end, and I'll have to get a job. You can't do both: have a family and play music. And then I met Neil Young and found that you can do both at the same time." Grohl had told late-night TV host Conan O'Brien recently that they immediately regretted picking "Foo Fighters" as the new band's handle, but were now prepared to live with it.

The always superb Tony Bennett seemed like the perfect way to end a fine day. It takes real stamina to make it through to the end of a nine-hour extravaganza like this. Bennett recently celebrated his 85th birthday by releasing an excellent duet album with current stars Lady Gaga ("She's such a great singer," said Bennett) and the late Amy Winehouse, as well as evergreens Aretha Franklin, Willie Nelson and others. Tonight, Bennett played his normal set with his brilliant backing quartet. No guest stars, none needed. "I Got Rhythm" and "Who's Got The Last Laugh Now" ("They all laughed at Christopher Columbus when he said the world was round/They all laughed when Edison recorded sound"), both chestnuts penned by George and Ira Gershwin, dug a groove that just wouldn't quit.

Bennett's four-piece band showcased stellar pianist Lee Musiker and excellent guitarist Gray Sargent along with Marshall Wood on upright bass and percussionist Harold Jones, described by Bennett as "Count Basie's favorite drummer." Bennett, a true national treasure who was the favorite singer of no less than Frank Sinatra, wound things up with the always popular tribute to that city 30 miles to the north, "I Left My Heart In San Francisco." And he got a hearty laugh from the crowd for the same line he's been using lately: "I've been doing this for 50 years. No, I've been doing this for 60 years!" One story he didn't repeat because he didn't play the song tonight concerned his cover of Hank Williams' "Cold Cold Heart," one of Bennett's earliest chart hits. He got what he thought would be a "thank you" call from Williams, he told an SF JAZZ audience last May. Instead, it was Williams asking him why he'd screwed up his song. Here's hoping Tony Bennett can one day tell an audience, "I've been doing this for 75 years." He deserves nothing less.

Rarities collection gets rescued from eBay purgatory.

By Fred Mills

The date was Nov. 4, 1997, and now the date is Nov. 8, 2011: Singles, Live, Unreleased was a 32-song, 3-LP, deluxe box set odds ‘n' sods collection from skronk-punk duo Royal Trux, and now it returns from the grave courtesy Drag City after more than a decade of being out of print. Loaded with rarities, including some genuinely oddball covers (such sa the "M.A.S.H." theme and a Grace Slick-penned Jefferson Airplane tune), it was a twisted favorite among Trux aficionados and collector-scum indie rock kids en route to becoming eBay catnip. Yours truly was working in a record store at the time of its initial release and it disappeared faster than the manager's morning coffee.

The original tracklisting tells the tale:

Side one

"Esso Dame" - 1:51

"Mercury" - 3:50

"No Fixed Address" - 3:29

"Red Tiger" - 5:12

"Lucy Peaupaux" - 3:44

Side two

"June Night Afternoon" - 3:54

"Steal Your Face" - 3:10

"Back to School" - 4:12

"Faca Amolada" (Ronaldo Bastos/Milton Nascimento) - 4:39

"Luminous Dolphin" - 3:16

"Spike Cyclone" - 3:59

Side three

"Vile Child" - 3:44

"Law Man" (Grace Slick) - 2:53

"Shockwave Rider" (Mike Fellows/Hagerty/Herrema) - 3:59

"Chairman Blow" - 7:02

"Womban" (Larry Kessler) - 3:49

Side four

"Cut You Loose" - 2:58

"Baghdad Buzz" - 4:08

"Hero/Zero" - 2:28

"Statik Jakl" - 4:03

"Gett Off" - 2:41

"Teeth" - 4:21

Side five

"Cleveland" - 4:00

"Theme from M*A*S*H" (Johnny Mandel/Mike Altman) - 2:11

"Strawberry Soda" - 1:50

"Sunflavor" - 3:08

"Love Is..." - 3:00

Side six

"Ratcreeps" - 4:47

"Hair Beach" - 3:42

"Sometimes" - 1:33

"Signed, Confused" (Hagerty/Herrema/Rian Murphy) - 5:56

"Aviator Blues" - 4:11

Get those credit cards ready, kids. As the label puts it ever-so-eloquently:

You may never understand unless you sit in a crouch for three days, on the balls of your feet with the keens pointing out like arrows before you. And then MAYBE you'll know how it feels. Some people in this life have no choice, they've been Indians since the day they were born. Others take it upon themselves. This was Royal Trux.

The skull's the thing!

By Fred Mills

Got $5000 to spare? That'll get you the new Flaming Lips album, or more accurately, their new 24-hour "song" titled "7 Skies H3." As the picture suggests, there's a small hard drive encased in an actual human skull. But act fast - only 13 copies reportedly have been made.

Or if you are not quite so well-heeled you can simply listen to it streaming over at the band's FlamingLipsTwentyFourHours.com.

Fascinatingly, at the moment this news item is being written, 977 people are listening to the track (so the counter at the Lips site indicates), with a maximum of 999 allowed at any given time. Not sure what all that means, come to think of it.

Directed by Grace Oh, "Canto de Iemanja" dips into sacred rituals and pays tribute to our oceans.

By Blurt Staff

Mia Doi Todd's version of "Canto de Iemanja," one of the original Afro-Sambas by the great Brazilian songwriters Vinicius de Moraes and Baden Powell, appears on her record Cosmic Ocean Ship and on the new Red Hot + Rio2 compilation.  Now Todd has shot a video for the song, directed by filmmaker Grace Oh, and we're stoked to present it for your viewing pleasure:

Iemanja is the Orisha or Goddess of the Ocean in the Yoruba, Candomble, and Santeria traditions.  She represents divine consciousness, healing unconditional love, feminine creativity and the essence of motherhood.  The video pays homage to the rituals that take place in Salvador, Bahia, Brazil at the Praia de Iemanja every year on February 2nd, her special saint's day.  Devotees bring flowers, watermelons and perfume for the Goddess and make altars for her on the beach.  These offerings are then taken out to the Ocean with prayers and wishes alongside the statue of the Goddess in a small boat.  The belief is that if the offerings are accepted by the Ocean and do not tumble back to shore, wishes will be granted.

Featuring choreography and dancing by Kimberly Miguel-Mullen and costumes by Mia Doi Todd, the Oh-directed video aims to capture the sacred essence of these rituals and celebrate the majesty and mystery of the Ocean which is currently so endangered by global warming and pollution. Shot in Baja California on the Pacific Ocean, the video is an outpouring of love, devotion, community and creativity, in honor of Iemanja.

[Photo Credit: Carl Lindstrom]

Now THAT is media friendly!

By Blurt Staff

If you're waiting for the new print issue of BLURT to drop then you must be a Lou Reed or Metallica fan - we've got a big interview with the artists about their out-of-the-blue collaboration that has yielded the new Warner Bros. album Lulu. It's due out next week, and the magazine will be on newsstands in a couple of weeks.

Meanwhile, the Loutallica camp just issued a 13-minute video interview as an EPK for the media, so you can check it out below and get the scoop on the album right from the horses' mouths...

See also: our R.E.M. special in the new print edition of BLURT.

By Blurt Staff

R.E.M. frontman Michael Stipe and co-director Dominic DeJoseph (who has directed previous films for R.E.M.) recruited actress Kirsten Dunst to star in one of the videos for "We All Go Back To Where We Belong." Dunst is a Golden Globe-nominated performer who has starred in such movies as Sophia Coppola's The Virgin Suicides, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Marie Antoinette, and the Spider-Man trilogy. She recently received the Cannes Film Festival Award for Best Actress for her role in the current film Melancholia, directed by Lars von Trier.

The other film stars iconic and legendary Dial-A-Poem artist/poet/activist John Giorno. Over the course of his notable career, Giorno has collaborated on several acclaimed projects with such luminaries as William S. Burroughs, Patti Smith, Laurie Anderson, Robert Rauschenberg, Andy Warhol and Glenn Branca. His work includes several books and multimedia poetry experiments and events. A career-spanning collection of his poems, entitled Subduing Demons in America: Selected Poems 1962-2007 was published in 2008. His first one-person gallery show, entitled Black Paintings and Drawings, was mounted at the Nicole Klagsbrun Gallery in New York in 2010.

Both black and white films for "We All Go Back To Where We Belong" capture their subjects in stark relief using a strong key light and shot with a stationary camera, an effect that Stipe describes as lending "gravity and beauty" to the proceedings.

These videos arrive on the heels of last years' successful Collapse Into Now Film Project, which featured films by artists for every song on the album. Stipe said of the new project, "To be able to work with John and Kirsten was a dream I carried since we recorded the song, and their participation completes the song for me."  

"We All Go Back To Where We Belong" is one of three new tracks to be included on R.E.M.'s upcoming final album R.E.M., Part Lies, Part Heart, Part Truth, Part Garbage, 1982 - 2011, out Nov. 15. See the new print issue (Wilco cover) of BLURT for a special R.E.M. feature.

Toronto synth-drama group plays Moogfest tonight. List of tour dates below.

By Blurt Staff

Following a sold out headlining show at the Bowery Ballroom in New York earlier this month, Austra kicked off a full North American tour last night in Philadelphia. The Toronto band's debut album Feel It Break and Sparkle, the follow-up remix 12", are both out now via Domino Records. All tour dates, including Europe and Australia, below.

Download or stream this previously unreleased Baron Von Luxxury remix of a Feel It Break track, "Spellwork":

Austra - Spellwork (Baron Von Luxxury Space Cathedral Remix) by DominoRecordCo

Tour Dates:

Oct 28 Asheville NC - Moogfest

Oct 30 Atlanta GA - The Earl^

Nov 01 Orlando FL - Backbooth^

Nov 02 Miami FL - Grand Central^

Nov 04 New Orleans LA - The Saint^

Nov 05 Houston TX - Fitzgerald's^

Nov 06 Austin TX - Fun Fun Fun Fest

Nov 08 Phoenix AZ - Rhythm Room^

Nov 09 Costa Mesa CA - Detroit Bar^

Nov 10 San Diego CA - The Casbah^

Nov 11 Los Angeles CA - The Echo^

Nov 12 San Francisco CA - Great American Music Hall^

Nov 14 Portland OR - Holocene^

Nov 15 Seattle WA - The Crocodile^

Nov 16 Electric Owl - Vancouver                              

Nov 17 Cactus Jacks - Kamloops                               

Nov 18 The Brixx Bar & Grill - Edmonton                            

Nov 19 HIFI Club - Calgary                          

Nov 22 Amigos Cantina - Saskatoon                                      

Nov 23 The Exchange            - Regina                                   

Nov 24 West End Cultural Centre - Winnipeg                                   

Nov 25 The Aquarium - Fargo, ND@                                  

Nov 26 Triple Rock Social Club - Minneapolis, MN @                     

Nov 28 Empty Bottle Chicago, IL@                        

Nov 29 Pike Room at the Crofoot Ballroom  Pontiac, MI@            

Dec 01 Phoenix Concert Theatre - Toronto                             

Dec 01 The Pheonix - Toronto                                    

Dec 02 Cabaret du Mile End - Montreal                                 

Dec 03 Ritual Night Club - Ottawa                            

Dec 06 Paradiso - Amsterdam, Netherlands                         

Dec 07 Rotown - Rotterdam, Netherlands                           

Dec 08 La Laiterie - Strasbourg, France                                  

Dec 09 Charlatan - Ghent, Belgium                          

Dec 11 Les Docks - Lausanne, Switzerland                          

Dec 12 BOAT - Bordeaux, France                            

Dec 14 Sterolux - Nantes, France                              

Dec 15 La Maroquinerie - Paris, France                                

Dec 17 La Trinitaires - Metz, France                         

Dec 30 Scheune - Dresden, Germany                                   

Dec 31 Palladium - Riga, Latvia                               

Jan 01  Volksbuhne - Berlin, Germany                                 

Jan 28  Laneway Festival - Brisbane, Australia                                  

Jan 30  Laneway Festival - Auckland, New Zealand                                     

Feb 04 Laneway Festival - Melbourne, Australia                               

Feb 05 Laneway Festival - Sydney, Australia                                    

Feb 10 Laneway Festival - Adelaide, Australia                                  

Feb 11 Laneway Festival - Perth, Australia                            

Feb 12 Laneway Festival - Singapore, Singapore                               

^ with Grimes

@ with Young Galaxy, Tasseomancy

Free download of "We Stand As One" below, also a video for his new Occupy Wall Street tribute song.

By Fred Mills

Rocker Joseph Arthur posted a new song to the web yesterday titled "We Stand As One," an elegant, piano-and-guitar powered elegy for the protesters of the Occupy Wall Street movement. You can download a free MP3 of the track and, meanwhile, we've got the video for you here as well. Check it out, and then read what Arthur has to say about the nature of protest songs (a topic we also explored recently at BLURT), along with his lyrics. Arthur additionally mentioned that should you feel like donating to OWS, here is a good link to follow.

From Joseph Arthur:

Protest songs should be open and somewhat naive

They can't help but reference Bob Dylan referencing Woody Guthrie

They usually speak in somewhat general terms

And to be effective at all,

they say things that even those coming from a similar space,

may not fully agree with.

They are easy targets for the venom of music critics (because of all the reasons above)

And yet still sometimes

They are necessary.

So with that I am happy to present you

"We Stand As One."

I hope you love it

Or hate it

Or love to hate it

Or let yourself

Hate to love it

but either way,

In some small way,

I hope that it helps.

- Joseph Arthur

# # #

"We Stand As One" - lyrics

We occupy wall street

Take back our soul

Take back our country

Take back control

Take back our health care

Take back our mind

Take back our freedom

Give up the grind

We occupy wall street

No more fear

No more acceptance

Of insanity's sneer

No more division

No more restraint

Our canvas is freedom

Your blood is our paint

we stand as one

You who have robbed us

You who have lied

You who were greedy

While the needy ones died

You who believed

You were better than them

Who sat in the flower

Ignoring the stem

You who denied them

Doctors and care

Humanity's basics

As if death were their share

You who denied

The struggles of most

Like a pig you consumed

And like a pig you will roast

we stand as one

We occupy wall street

The system has failed

As the innocent ones

Are beat down and jailed

The criminal minds

have stolen this land

By taking our freedom

And binding our hand

To the cuff of misfortune

To the cuff of our need

To the cuff of self pity

To the cuff of a seed

Lost in the desert

No chance to survive

No love to nurture

No water to thrive

we stand as one

A season of murder

The body and soul

Dreams being shattered

The damnation control

Give back our country

We come to defend

Our right to inspire

To love and befriend

Our right to be healthy

Our right to believe

In a country of equals

Of a chance to receive

A chance to develop

A chance to forgive

A chance to dignify

The way that we live

we stand as one

A chance education

A chance to secure

A place for our families

Our right to a cure

The disease is insane

The disease is just greed

The disease is your pain

Ignoring their need

The disease is your reason

Your will is unchecked

But the blood is all over

The lives you have wrecked

But blessed are the meek

For we stand as one

We stand against

The crimes you have done

we stand as one

We stand against

Your desire for more

Hear how we knock

Soon there won't be a door

And what you won't share

Will be ripped from your hands

Your body destroyed

The way fire lands

Burning your homes

The privilege you snake

The payback beyond

Anything you could take

Naked you'll be

And full of regret

And the way they were treated

You'll long to forget

we stand as one

You'll wish you could go back

and undo whats been done

You'll wish you were never

Insanity's son

You'll wish you were fair

You'll wish for compassion

But it will be late

And long out of fashion

Strung up you'll bleed

Like the pig you became

A symbol of hatred

And one with no name

And our country will come back

Belonging to us

Regain it's spirit

Regain our trust

we stand as one

Regain it's standing

Regain the world

The dream of our fathers

A new and bold world

Where people have chance

And can live with respect

And people can dance

Beyond their neglect

Where health is a right

And education within

The grasp of the poor

Who may still one day win

We occupy wall street

So that we may begin

To live in a country

Of freedom again.

we stand as one