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Buying Our Silence

from Ghosts Hang Low by Max Davies

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lyrics

Mama and Daddy
How'd it get like this?
Selling our future
For a bag full of tricks
Poisoning our water
Our land and our minds
For thirty pieces of silver

Whistle down the wind
For a road paved with gold
Dreams of the past
And the days we once owned
Forgetting the future
for the great white lie
and thirty pieces of silver

Disposable heroes
and half-empty rooms
The flash of the neon
And the twist of the view
The unwritten pleasure
And the ghost of the moon
For thirty pieces of silver

Which way should we wander
Which way should we roam
This current is closing
Folding back to the loam
The diamonds are cracking
And the blood's pouring for
Thirty pieces of silver

They're buying our silence
We're just selling ourselves by the pound
With your cheap toys and violence
You're burning my world to the ground

These questions and inklings
They cut deep to the bone
Where is our future?
Tell me where is our home?
The seven generations
We've yet to have known
For thirty pieces of silver

Looking back on the past
With historical eyes
A shiny new game and
A freshly won prize
Are just paper tigers
To distract from inside
And thirty pieces of silver

They're buying our silence
We're just selling ourselves by the pound
With your cheap toys and violence
You're burning my world to the ground

Take us back to the river
Take us back to the shore
Take us back to the feelings
We learned once before
Raise us on wings that sing something more
And forget your
Forget your pieces of silver
Yes forget your
Forget your pieces of silver
You can forget your
Forget your pieces of silver

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from Ghosts Hang Low, released December 29, 2014
Voice, piano, guitars: Max Davies
Bass: Toni Oswald
Drums, synthesizer: Jonas Leuenberger

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Max Davies

Songwriter, guitarist and producer. Max Davies has been featured in: Artforum; Guitar World & Guitarist magazines; Centre Pompidou, the American College Dance Festival, Naropa University, and on numerous albums and films. He has worked with Thurston Moore, Anne Waldman, Lydia Lunch, CA Conrad, Toni Oswald, Clark Coolidge, Cecilia Vicuna, Eleni Sikelianos Gregory Alan Isakov, and more. ... more

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