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Concrete Swan Dive

from Brother Ox by Brother Ox

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lyrics

CONCRETE SWAN DIVE

Stranded here in the liquor line
Watching ya do that slide
Down a pole that every jack with his club
Is so jealous of

Balls deep in impending doom
Lost little girls they swoon
Hell’s gate through the back door
Know what I’m heading for

Tonic, pills in an empty gut
Worn tread in the deepest rut
Hollow days and some empty nights
Melting hope in the neon light

Fuck the future my end is near
Tastes like bourbon and fear
Face filled with them jagged lines
Wrote my note, no suicide

You can’t play with them kings and queens
You can’t relive your last scene
I been beat, I been played, I get drunk til it’s pain
But it’s not enough
Ya said it’s all my fault

All these god damn distractions
Got us falling in backwards
I don’t need your distractions
Swan dive, head first

Every new generation sounds like overweight children
Crying in court for their candy, their rights, take it all
Kneeling down at a judges feet
Sucking on that collective tit

And the message in western lands
Be ashamed if you be a man
After all, you are drowning in privilege

The privilege to labor and pay
To be silent against what you say
Take your shit and get out of my way

All your god damn distractions
Got us falling in backwards
I don’t need your distractions
Swan dive, head first

Fuck you and your objections
Swan dive, head first

credits

from Brother Ox, released March 14, 2015
Matt Glaser - Vocals
Mike Pribble - Guitar
Joe Becker - Bass
Eddie Sheffler - Drums

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Brother Ox Shady Grove, Pennsylvania

Brother Ox was a band with an idea behind it. Labor, societal pressure, anguish of the common man: listen to the first album, you hear these themes. This was a good thing.

But it was also an excuse to hide.

Volume 2 is full of characters you know in your personal experience, and some you haven't met yet. It's the same for us. Is it rock or something worse? Are we traitors? To what cause? None.
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