Silent Protests to an Absent Enemy

from Hiraeth by Eddie Rifkind

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This is an epic of sorts, which I wrote during the 2016 election season and its aftermath, with an ambient and unearthly intro featuring the saxophone of Jarod Flores.

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Go - sink your head into the fascist sand
Go - take comfort in the womb of denial
Go - turn in all the people not like you
Will it make you feel better
when it happens to you

Ugly echoes of history
Broadcasts of our fallacy
Let's question our sanity
We're comfy, safe, I guess we're free

Semantics lobotomize
the hopes living in the mind's eye
but if we hide and live to rise,
caged in our comfy lifestyle,

we are free
Silent protests to an absent enemy
We keep busy, online, woke, and deep...
asleep

as our responsive plastic thought
squabbling over freedom
already long gone

Oh, you see
Liberation's just a game
When you say you win, you win
But those red hands always stain

You always leave a shroud of rain

You were always just
the perfect light
to illuminate what I'm missing

The right god
The right country
The right sex
The right color
That's the garbage that you're looking for, son.

Oh, you see
Liberation's just a game
When you say you win, you 'win'
But that red hat always screams

Go - run to the arms of America
Go - sink your head into the fascist sand
Go - take comfort in the womb of denial
Go - turn in all the people not like you

Will it make you feel better
when it happens to you?
Will it make you feel better
when you die for the truth?

you always leave a shroud of rain
you always leave a shroud of pain

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from Hiraeth, released February 14, 2017
All instruments by Eddie Rifkind, except saxophone by Jarod Flores.

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Eddie Rifkind

Eddie Rifkind is a guitar pedal builder, artist and musician in San Francisco. His music varies widely in style, and has been compared to everyone from Machines of Loving Grace to David Bowie to KMFDM to Led Zeppelin to Dead Can Dance to Killing Joke, drawing from those and other influences from eclectic and inspired rock, post-rock, post-punk, industrial, metal, blues and classical sources. ... more

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