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flowers at the stones

by flutemanjohn

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a crucial anthem for our unstable and dangerous era, a time of honorable patriotic protest versus willful ignorance, hatred, greed. violence, and autocratic lust and insanity. a historic pivot point, a challenge to the forces of darkness and fear, the challenge voiced by the quest for truth and freedom, at stake, life and liberty. people in the streets again, chanting down senseless greed, needless hate and violence. the mighty sword, the cracking of the bell of liberty, the pendulum swings, hopeful of recovery, redemption, the shining city on the hill, once again restored by the righteous and the patriotic. at horrific cost.

instrumentation: heavy kit drums and fender bass guitar, sweet heavy sustained double-lead strat electric guitars, 12-string dreadnaught acoustic rhythm guitar with finger-slide style, mellow organ, luxurious vocal FX, and special FX throughout.

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sensing overlapping circles, in the story of our time,
feeling widening horizons, at the edges of my mind,
seeing more and more resistance, to injustice all the time,
hearing more and more insistence, the calling of mankind.

people in the streets again, message clear as hell,
civil disobedience, to save the cracking bell,
autocracy kleptocracy, despotic mens desire,
treason and hypocrisy, influence for hire.

we appeal for wisdom, get a war of memes,
and everything they tell you, just isn’t what it seems,
is your cup half full or empty, is it broken on the sill,
splintered glass that cuts, blood begins to spill.

i feel the power building, i hear the people pray,
the pendulum starts swinging, back the other way,
slicing like the mighty sword, the foe does fall away,
the city starts to shine again, truth will have its day.

first the pride, then the fall, karma comes for one and all,
gluttony is sin, evil rots within,
would you plead a different case, what history would you erase,
bereft, by mortal sin, from your saving grace.

all the lies and all the tricks, what was rigged what was fixed,
cut off your nose to spite your face, could it be that time and place,
this flavor of insanity, its not for us, its not for me,
i support humanity, thats the way it has to be.

some make their bed of dirt and sticks, lay their head on earthen bricks,
a hunting bow for ages bent, the ninety nine percent,
wave will crest, wave will break, boiling waters in its wake,
swimming in the fiery lake, what promises to god me make.

how’d you ever get this far, bullshit bottled in a jar,
the bargain that you make, the gamble that you take,
you may betray humanity, for the succor of your vanity,
but know you surely must, dust turns back to dust.

runnin down the primrose path, buddy can’t you do the math,
loops runnin in my head, the needless hate, the pointless dead,
shifting sands, at best, fickle footing, who will be the last one putting,
flowers at the stones of all the rest.

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released July 5, 2020
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I played flute ten years (2000-2010) with Bob Marley's immortal band The Wailers. Other folks I got to play with include Umphrey's Magee, Peter Rowan, New Monsoon, Ancient Harmony, Carolyn Wonderland, and many more. I write & record all my own original music. Please follow me on BandCamp. My music is ever evolving. Please check my new $6 paperback on Amazon under Books: "Lyrics Poems Tales" fmj ... more

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