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lyrics

there’s prison cells outside on Central Square
I never really noticed that they were there
I wonder what our society thinks about mercy
oh Lord have mercy! I can see...

I see the brick and mortar holding strong
and it’s what we spend our money on
I hear little children singing songs

they’re singin’ that, “don’t let them forget what they done wrong”

read it in the news any day
I see probation officers, bail & bonds
and some people basing their salaries on
up to that man with the button that’s dropping the bomb

then the peace-prize president drop another bomb
then the peace-prize president break the record on the bomb
an eighteen-wheeler can speed on sand
I may not reach the promised land
but I feel untouchable unto that invisible hand
it’s at least a step along the path
turning away to find the way
may I ever find the way
there’s a wedding that we all attend
hearing the words we’ve heard from beginning to end:
that love keeps not a record of wrongs!

yet from the bottom to the top we sing the same songs
find our grudges and we holding em on
we sing, don’t let them let forget what they done wrong

we wag our fingers at kids that don’t forgive their friends
we teach them how to live in ways they’ve never seen examples of before
it’s only us and to our own || keeping the love within the home
love the Lord with all your heart, soul, and mind and your neighbor as yourself

but who is our neighbor, we ask?
it’s the Samaritan, the foreigner, the exile, the unclean, the outcast, your enemy
the illegals, the homeless, those who trespass against us
it’s the enslaved minorities, it’s the stranger in your land
the one whose ways you think you’re never gonna understand

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from Full Moon in June, released December 18, 2020
PERFORMED BY
Dimitris Campos (vocals, classical guitar)
Nichole Barrows (vocals)
Hannah Win (vocals)
Matt Dog (trumpet)
Jake Cochran (percussion)
Jeff Gorman (bass guitar)

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Ears to the Ground Family Harrisonburg, Virginia

Ears to the Ground Family is a minimal, totally acoustic group with guitar, hand percussion, and banjo. They have a serious focus on lyrical content and sometimes achieve a body-shivering vocal harmony. They make music of resistance to oppression and empire, of communities of hope, and of a faith that sustains us. Our tunes draw from R&B, spiritual, soul, folk/americana, chant, hip-hop, and jazz. ... more

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