They Probably Think We Are Savages

from Idea Machine by Noisy Ghost

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The sidewalks here are smiling
The streets are paved with gold
There's fortunes to be made
or at least thats what we're told

The sidewalks here are screaming
The streets are paved with dirt
There's fortunes to be made

He said to me son, “Stay in school
or they'll make you fight their dirty war.”
He said to me son, “Stay in school
or you'll end up drunk on a Wednesday afternoon.”

There's a fiddle in the kitchen
and a trumpet in the street
A guitar in the river
floats on past me

The people here are wandering
all wondering what went wrong
They cry out in unison like brothers
“Wheres the president? Where's the president?”

He said to me son, “Stay in school
or they'll make you fight their dirty war.”
He said to me son, “Stay in school
or you'll end up drunk on a Wednesday afternoon.”
I said ok, I said ok,
He said, “No son, you listen, and you listen good
Every time I close my eyes
all I see is the fire from those bullets
and the fire in their eyes
When we came to town
all the children ran to their mothers and cried
'Mommy, whats he doing here?'
Their dirt is stuck between our toes
Their blood is in our hair
and their death, it reeks in our cloths
The only comfort I can find
in my daily routine
is my mothers bottle of virginian wine
Oh it sings to me
That bottles sings to me
Tt sings of freedom and friends
That bottle is my freedom
That bottle is my friend
That bottle is my freedom
That bottle is my friend
My freedom, my friend my bottle
My freedom, my friend my bottle
My freedom, my friend my bottle
My freedom, my friend my bottle
of virginian wine!”

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from Idea Machine, released February 24, 2015

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Noisy Ghost is the eclectic expression of Chad VanNortwick.

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