Name: The Deity
Duration: P00H02M34S
Description: Lyrics inspired as much by modern times as my earliest memories as a child in the Soviet Union.

The Deity

from Hiraeth by Eddie Rifkind

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Lyrics inspired as much by modern times as my earliest memories as a child in the Soviet Union.

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i'm only like you 'cause i have a pulse
i'm only like you 'cause i need to scream
i'm only like you 'cause i hunger today
i'm only like you 'cause i still pay

when would you like to escape?
to meet all over again?
when did you first see the wall?
when should we make it fall?

i'm only like you in that i can run
i'm only like you in that i can't hide
i'm only living in the petting zoo
i am the one that you never knew

when would you like to escape?
to meet all over again?
when did you first see the wall?
when should we make it fall?

i'm only like you 'cause i have no mission
we're lovers, we're brothers in the arms of television
we're just two shadows of a greater need
to play games for the deity of greed

when would you like to escape?
to meet all over again?
when did you first see the wall?
when should we make it fall?

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from Hiraeth, track released January 11, 2017
Lyrics, vocals and all instruments by Eddie Rifkind. Artificial intelligence drummer by Logic, produced by Eddie Rifkind.

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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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