"Wave" genre: Folk
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	The sound of Wave is sort of Jeff Buckley meets Nina Simone...at least to me. Here I am joined by Dale Wilson on lead acoustic guitar.
	CD: Urban Folk Credits: Blair- Vocals and Acoustic Guitar,
	Story Behind the Song The motivation for this song was straight up good old American capitalism and all of it's byproducts, racism, sexism, homophobia etc... W.E.B. Du Bois writes about the duality of Black Americans-that we are both american and treated as second class citizens and how many of us feel that contradiction profoundly and the ways it manifests itself. This song, I guess is about how all of American capitalism's byproducts breed mistrust among all of it's disenfranchised and oppressed people and how they can eventually kill it. This song is inspired by the song Wade in the Water (trad.) and also the writings of DuBois, the poem The Capitalist at Dinner by Claude McKay and the music of Jeff Buckley and Nina Simone and the emerging new civil rights movement which always points me in the right direction. Gay,straight,black,white Same struggle, same fight! An injury to one is an injury to all love, Blair Lyrics Wave As I wade in the water Stepping real slow Legs caught in contradiction The ebb and the flow Which way am I moving Once on land am I free Would I do myself better Just to drift out to sea? Did I wave when I saw you Did I crest, did I crash Under a sun that was lit like a cigarette The sky grayer than ash But sometimes you don't know how weak you are No more solid than sand Think you're safe in your castle So secure on dry land Oh but we can come crashing We can flood,we can swirl Submerge you in silence We can cover your world Saw your brother down in Birmingham Trying to ease out the plug He came swaggering into town Drinking Jesus' blood So obese and so pampered So pompous, so pale His sister Justice beside him With her nigger-rigged scales But sometimes you don't know how weak you are No more solid than sand Think you're safe in your castle So secure on dry land Oh,but we can come crashing We can flood, we can swirl Submerge you in silence We can cover your world You've betrayed your own morality Dulled your chastity bell You'd tear down your own heaven You will bring your own hell Try to kill creativity with a gun to it's head Try to tell me how black I can be I'm so black that I'm red But sometimes you don't know how weak you are No more solid than sand Think you're so safe in your castles So secure on dry land Oh, but we can come crashing We can flood , we can swirl Submerge you in silence We can cover your world BLAIR

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