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THE WATERS RISE
Somebody cold & cruel had littered the landscape / Streets all strewn with bruised, embittered hearts / Somebody broke the rules with a vicious handshake / Dreams ruined with a fuse & a single spark / Lies were sold by bankers / slyly told by kings / Traded brazenly by corporate spies / Somebody cold & cruel had littered the landscape – It’s no surprise, the waters rise / Look at ‘em – broken, abused, bleedin’ & battered – Marooned on the corner of Greed & Denial / Like they never counted, they never even once mattered / On that street where the poor are decried & defiled / But you, you don’t pay taxes, you hide it all offshore / Brandishing your axes & taking out lives / Look at ‘em – broken, abused, bleedin’ & battered – It’s no surprise, the waters rise / Pontchartrain, San Juan or Canal – Oh, you won’t look anyhow / Your hired liars got the press all choked & cloned / The only “jobs” you create make kids into uniformed killers far away / Then you throw ‘em to the dogs in the street like mutilated bones / The Fahrenheit of the seas, climbin’ by alarmin’ degrees / Bodies’ll float in the subways, above Wall Street ominous skies / Pontchartrain, San Juan or Canal – Oh, you won’t look anyhow / It’s no surprise, the waters rise / A mother wailed just like some wounded animal / Bound her babe high upon a telephone pole / Fell into silence as the swirling tomb surrounded her / Kept her eye on the child as she, herself, was swallowed whole / D.C. was silent, blind – no orders given or signed / As if no one’d notice or be more the wise / But a mother wailed just like some wounded animal… / It’s no surprise, the waters rise…

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from ANCIENT CHAINS, released December 7, 2020

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John Terlazzo & Voices in the Hall York, Pennsylvania

Voices In The Hall: Songwriter / Poet John Terlazzo on vocals, guitar, Indian harmonium, Kristina Machusick on vocals, flute, recorders & Paul Wegmann on vocals, lead guitars. Together
they have become one moving, breathing creature, offering up a rich array of "Modern Surrealist Gypsy Folk", & described as "Marc Chagall gone aural" and "Leonard Cohen meets Rumi".
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