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    "Expatriate Anthem (c) 2000 Kevin Stanley"genre: Folk
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    Yet another spritely song. I'll post the lyrics to this one and you may judge for yourself.
    CD: Not yet available.   Label: Self
    Credits: Self

    Story Behind the Song
    I view music as a work in progress. You may listen and think that these all sound very free verse and unfinished, which would be as they are intended. They may change along the way, but they are here now. I used to be such a perfectionist, but did nothing. I'd rather 'scratch the surface of greatness' than to do nothing. Thanks for listening.

    Lyrics
    (C) 2000 Kevin John Stanley

    Expatriate Anthem

    Spend all my days, living holidays
    the passing time and reasons crime
    so cold, the empty words we say;

    and the passengers, their heart all
    trampled down and trodden
    in between the lines we draw around our heart
    &if I heard the news I'd read it once aloud and laugh oh the cacophenous laughter

    c: & would you say that we were nothing
    but our own worst enemies
    and would you say that we are something
    that they'll never take away

    though we try, they'll never harm us
    lo they wonder, just what we're up to
    and we are thinking expatriation

    And are you happy saying those words
    that you'd never long to hear
    all the thoughts that have come to pass
    only in your deepest fears
    oh, they're only in your deepest fears

    with the crime of the state
    in a whole other time
    and the hourly losses
    and the burial face is on
    and the whole in the head
    and the heart and the mind
    and the blood runs down
    misery is all we've found

    C: and it's supposed to change they said
    but do you believe them?
    as they lie smiling in your face
    and everything will have its proper time
    and we will only scratch the surface
    of greatness

    dig a ditch for all the discontent
    in their palm they place us
    if only I could end, this fickle game
    if only I could feel my heart again

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