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Us and them (plus super special live old version of sars)

from 13 songs by sober becky (selected tracks) by sober becky

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I don't ever play this song because I don't remember how. Its the 13th song on "13 songs by sober becky". it is inspired by frustration about people hating people they don't even know because we cling to the past and identify with people who we think are like us and take credit for what they did even though we had nothing to do with it. meanwhile also blaming people for things that people who we think are like them did. and after the song is done there is a super special bonus 14th song that is a live version of SARS before I finished it and made it into the version that i sing now and that is included on my 2014 album Odes and Observations.

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we are conceived and born incurably diseased with inherited inequalities. ancestors perched on our backs, crucified to planks of the past. with puppet limbs and assigned masks. subconsciously inclined to comply with man-made lines, we feel safest when we are defined. Seek comfort in definition; wear uniforms for recognition of our place and position. raised on a steady diet of lies, deceived and taught to generalize. told who is right and what is civilized. well civil thrives on genocide and how well it is justified following failed attempts to hide. this land is yours, or is it mine, we need the law to draw a line. to define and to separate our differences from what is the same so we can blame and hate and hide behind fences and border lines. reducing THEM to enemies with collectivized identities. we need ignorance to comprehend the division of us and them. truth is a casualty of war, the one that we tend to ignore and substitute pride for. pride for lines drawn by simple men, holding power, holding pens. perspectives gained through a narrow looking lens. well, nationalism is akin to racism and youre fucking stupid if your one of them protecting the familiar while fearing all that isn’t.

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from 13 songs by sober becky (selected tracks), released January 1, 2009

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