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    "After the Prom"genre: Rock
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    A shotgun scatter vision of America from 1983 to 2001, a biography, a hopeful chorus.
    CD: Church of the Kitchen Sink   Label: Life Underwater Music/ Digital Bear Entertainment
    Credits: James O'Brien (Ac.Guit/Vox), Justin Day (Bass), Dylan Callahan (Drums), Rob Laurens (Keys), Jordan Tishler (Ld. Guitar)

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    in the weird dark 1980s
    in the basement of my school
    they showed us nature movies
    on sixteen millimeter spools
    unfurling with a crackle
    and the whirring of the wheels
    salmon eggs and silverbacks
    cut through water white as steel
    I watched with my breath bated
    bewildered by the speed
    as they tossed and broke in the river
    which ones died which ones would breed
    these days it’s much the same thing
    it’s a slightly different show
    which way from here is upstream
    which way should we go
    little anthem
    little children
    little bomb
    I’ll meet you behind the gym after the prom
    heartbeats being heartbeats
    they served us back the bomb
    after summer dinners
    in suburban living rooms
    my dad said son an early bedtime for you tonight
    I don’t want you to see this
    what’s good for you ain’t always right
    I lay there in the darkness
    my lungs twin purple cages
    needing more than oxygen
    for my dad to be courageous
    less than a decade later
    in a senior high school classroom
    watching The Day After
    at last I could forgive him
    little anthem
    little children
    little bomb
    I’ll meet you behind the gym after the prom
    the grand jury’s in discovery
    they’re choking on the burden of proof
    if the glove fits you must convict
    when’s the last time that was the truth
    I’m going to the tribunal
    I’m turning in my gown
    I’ll turn in my diploma
    I’m getting out of town
    I crouch still in my hallway
    like a basement or a bed
    forget the mushroom clouds in Kansas
    747s over my head
    this is the critical fork in the rapids
    some of us will got caught
    I know it doesn’t matter
    but this is what I got
    little anthem
    little children
    little bomb
    I’ll meet you behind the gym after the prom

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