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A reminder that we're not alone. Terrible home recording. Will be on the new album.
anarchist music radical m riotfolk political folk
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High-energy political folk with powerful lyrics and an innovative acoustic sound.
Hey Friends, I am Evan Greer, a radical singer/songwriter originally from Boston. My songs roam from the romance of a trainyard to the frontlines of the class-war. My style is sort of aggressive folk. I envision a world where people are free to live their lives in the way that they choose, and where our social interactions are based on love, mutual aid, and solidarity, rather than exploitation and greed. My songs are for anyone who has ever envisioned such a world, anyone who has ever fought for one, and anyone who ever thought that one was impossible, but wished it weren't so.
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Genre
Alternative • Pop Punk
Charts
Peak #59
Peak in subgenre #3
Author
Evan Greer
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screw intellectual property.
Uploaded
April 11, 2005
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MP3 4.2 MB • 128 kbps • 0:00
Story behind the song
Hearing the stories of several of my friends that were feeling isolated and alone, as well as my own depression and isolation inspired me to write something that connected our stories in a cohesive and hopeful way. This is a song for the Spring, and it's dedicated to Becca and Mike, Alec and Cathy, Cassie, Christa, Ryan, the kids from Czech Republic and Montreal.
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she’s sittin in a bathroom stall with a marker in her hand and she’s scribbling down the words to her favorite song by her favorite band and she hopes someone will read them and maybe they’ll understand how it feels to care so much it hurts to fight so hard you shake to love so intensely that it scares you to build so much that something breaks and she knows that she’s not the only one but sometimes it sure feels that way in a little college town in Ohio so there’s a song that she sings everyday (chorus) I want something that’s better than this. and i’m not sure exactly what it is but i think that we could build it if we try together And if we all sing... And 500 miles away down I-70 there’s a boy sitting in a room full of patches and PCP and the kids all drink the same beer and they talk about anarchy and he wonders if he’s the only one who remembers what that used to mean? and the punk-rock band plays on long into the night these days the girls with the empty eyes hardly even put up a fight and he watches as his friends give up and slowly start to die putting needles in their arms because punk-rock boys don’t cry, he sings: (chorus) and that very same night kids all across the earth felt lonely and confused frightened and unsure and we’re trying to find one another through a system that keeps us apart to match the weapons that we hold in our fists with the passion that we carry in our hearts and we know it’s gonna take a long time and we know that we’ll fuck up along the way but i’ve got a feeling that we’re winning as i here more and more and more of us say: (chorus)
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