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Snarling Slaves

from JOKE PARADE by HALCION HALO

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“Snarling Slaves” is definitely about the 99%
We are the stones that line the streets, the food on the table, the labor that cuts the trees down, we are the backbone of the superstructure working for love and admiration trying to entertain ourselves while we watch the corporatized murder that airs on a talking box nightly. Strap on, powder up, get ready to defend the system and its ways wherever the next mass grave has been dug… It’s our way or the highway that we are about to build over your civilization along with this piping system to suck your natural resources dry.
Graves interest me, cause the more money and power you have the better your gravesite is… The rest of us can spread our ashes to sea or find a good massive blank and boring site somewhere that is not offensive. Like a dog fight we are placed in cages, poked and starved for what we crave until we are fighting amongst each other trying to steel from the poor what they cannot already afford. All the while, the walls built around us either virtually or physically grow taller by the moment and once we realize it finally it will be too late.

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The reeds bend lightly, the trees move out of the way
The wind shakes the shutters, we’ve all got prayers to make
The rider comes nightly, the steam of his breath stains
All the unfortunate heroes, with their conquests on display

All the forgotten children born here, cast to their shallow graves
Sounds of screams, grinding bones, haunted hills and snarling slaves

Torrent schleps through the gutters, temptation longs to play
Don’t deny your savior, learn to mend your wounds today
And the beast he rides us nightly, with his claws upon our skin
All the fortunate heroes watch their conquests die within

All the forgotten children born here, cast to their shallow graves
Sounds of screams, grinding bones, haunted hills and snarling slaves
All the vacant eyes stare down and eat from their captors hands
One more quivering hero, bites down on that beguiling hand

Why would you love this land, oh barry that offending hand

The returning father’s failing, cast his gift upon his girls
Drinks port for death in waiting, and lays a veil upon his world
And with anguish in my right hand, and vengeance to my left
One more fortunate hero, will taste my binding death

All the forgotten children born here, cast to their shallow graves
Sounds of screams, grinding bones, haunted hills and snarling slaves
All the vacant eyes stare down and eat from their captors hands
One more quivering hero, bites down on that beguiling hand

Why would you love this land, oh barry that offending hand
Why would you love this land

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from JOKE PARADE, released July 22, 2016

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HALCION HALO Tacoma, Washington

Halcion Halo is Hardy Bluesy Grunge band.
We keep going, writing new material, and naturally subjecting ourselves to the struggle pursuit which rubs the frontal lobe of our ego.
Hailing from the South Puget Sound in Washington… we make our bead and bread and come together regularly to ritualistically beat the hell out of our batter. It’s a goblet full of heavy we offer. ... more

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