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Snowball Earth

Gift Gift Gift
Here’s the gift
Here’s the gift
It’s the gift that keeps on giving
You can block Merlin
But you can’t stop winning
You can stop winning
But you can’t stop sinning
And you can’t stop beating
‘Til the ends repeating
‘Til the ends justify all
The means of the feeling

Right, I’m talking about work
Right, I’m talking about work
Back he work he
And back, he work

Yea I wanna sing
And yea, I wanna bring
Heat and home and power

Sweet arm up my sweetheart flower
Man in a cave
Man of the hour
Bring on the reckoning
Sound and soul heckling
Sound and sound money
And a ball and chain rummy
Beat the band backwards
Carry those placards
Socially distant out of existence
Package your pride and beef up
The buggy ride

Read my lips soon on the porch
On this scorched earth

Sound and sound money

For what it’s worth
On snowball earth
You can hit and run
Take a knee nearer my god to thee
under the sun
Of the manner born of
Property properly scorned

We hold these truths to be self evident
But in our history there’s no evidence
Of equal under the law:
Not equal for some so not equal for all

You can’t be colorblind on snowball earth
No you can’t be colorblind on snowball earth
You can bend and not break since the time of your birth of a nation
Of a nation earthquake
But you can’t be colorblind on snowball earth

Cause we stacked the deck on the backs
Of the best
Building a land with no backup plan
And now the multiple moments
Predictable to some
Converge on a country that’s over and done
The perfect mix of nonsense and content
Double wide discontent
I break your back you break mine

You can’t be colorblind on snowball earth
No you can’t be colorblind on snowball earth
You can bend and not break since the time of your birth of a nation
Of a nation earthquake
But you can’t be colorblind on snowball earth

And Big Bill Haywood is rolling in his grave
To see how the unions forgot his name
Not so benevolent
That biased elephant in the room
Breaking bread with the enemy
Not happening soon
Forgive and forget that gets us nowhere
Educate, legislate, become daily aware
Because somewhere, everywhere
They just don’t care

You can’t be colorblind on snowball earth
No you can’t be colorblind on snowball earth
You can bend and not break since the time of your birth of a nation
Of a nation earthquake

Here’s the gift
Here’s the gift
It’s the gift that keeps on giving
You can block Merlin
But you can’t stop winning
You can stop winning
But you can’t stop sinning
And you can’t stop beating
‘Til the ends repeating
‘Til the ends justify all
The means of the feeling

Right, I’m talking about work
Right, I’m talking about work
Back he work he
And back, he work

Yea I wanna sing
And yea, I wanna bring heat

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from ~​/​Library​/​Mouth​/​Congress/, released October 23, 2020

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Mikel Rouse New York, New York

Mikel Rouse is a New York-based composer, director, performer and recording artist hailed as “a composer many believe to be the best of his generation.” (NY Times 2002) His works include 25 records, 7 films (including Funding and Music For Minorities), and a trilogy of media operas: Failing Kansas, Dennis Cleveland and The End Of Cinematics. ... more

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