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Everybody and the Machine

from The Patterns of the City by Tea Leaves

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Everybody's hardwired to the machine.
Everybody's hardwired to the machine,
and when the Devil pulls the plug you'll know what I mean,
when I say we're all hardwired to the machine.
When the sky turns to black from an envious green,
you'll see your whole life flash on the TV screen.

They say "the end times are coming!",
"Just listen to the soldiers drumming"
Somewhere a preacher is pissed, drinking his graveyard mist,
while one father nails another to the crucifix.

Staring up at a pale blue sky.
Staring up at a pale blue sky,
they said "the famine is a sign of the ending times."
Staring up at a pale blue sky.
All the priests and false prophets starve together in line;
your son is gripping your hip as the church bells chime.

So, say goodbye to your first-born son.
Say goodbye to your first-born son.
He won't be coming home until the fighting's done.
So, say goodbye to your first-born son.
When the flags unwind- holding onto your gun-
the stars will start falling one by one.

(And he won't be coming back.)

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from The Patterns of the City, released July 12, 2013

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Southern Ontario folk rock for the guilty and the damned. The forest is always watching.

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