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    "The Line"genre: Rock
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    Very powerful music with emotional vocals. Builds up to an intense level. Good Stuff
    CD: Who's Talking...Who's Listening   Label: Not The Moon
    Credits: Emptyhead

    Story Behind the Song
    This song is about how society forms lines in culture today. Lines that people follow without and realizing it. Inspired by a bridge in Northern Maine that crosses into Canada, an imaginary line(Border) that splits a river.
    The second verse was actually inspired by a walk down Newbury Street in Boston. Read the lyrics and you can feel yourself walking down Newbury into the Old Church. Song has a very powerful message and is relayed through the music and the vocals. Took a very long time to get this one right.

    Lyrics
    I walk across the bridge that joins irony in steel
    Halfway I meet the sign
    It speaks to me of something that exists
    Well I can't see it
    It seems that there's this line; it splits a river
    Further down in deep woods
    Animals just wander oblivious to violations
    Now it seems a harmless thing
    But someday I might have to search you; strip you down
    Now it seems a harmless thing
    But someday I might be forced to lock you up
    Once it seemed a harmless thing
    Now I've put a bullet through you
    Gray inside and out; consoled by motion
    Facedown past the steps and then the brick fronts
    Vaguely past one church and then another
    Unaware past gray cut stone
    Now I'm in but don't know why; why?
    Dim and empty color on the pews
    I kneel and don't even care why; why?
    Quiet; sounds like Jesus talking
    Some dead piece of me comes back to life
    Why, why, why, why, why?
    Now peace seems a simple thing
    But someday I might be taught to hate you
    Consolation mine for joining
    Whose way must I turn my back to?
    Will your god become my devil?
    And killing you; my prayer
    I refuse; I deny
    Lost the eyes that saw your lines
    Empty sockets pour in light
    (Guitar solo)
    I refuse; I deny; I won't choose
    Never saw you color-coded
    Enemy, my gun's unloaded
    Who tells you and who tells me?
    We don't need their help to see
    You're full of fear without their lines
    Your power's drawn through all their lines
    Lines are lies and lies are lines
    History; heredity
    Poverty and luxury
    Geography; economy
    A soul's the only you I see
    I'm non-aligned, non-aligned, non-aligned
    I'm not a line

    ©Copyright 2002. All rights reserved. Respective property of Emptyhead, div. Not The Moon Productions, Inc.

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