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Art Will Save America

from Behind The I by Andy Gibson

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about

I wrote the lyrics to this while listening to the song 'Land Locked Blues' by Bright Eyes, and then Sam Kirk started playing the acoustic guitar part and soon enough we had written this song.
It was in Christchurch in February 2005.

lyrics

Maybe art will save America
From being polarised, polarized, polarised
But open up your ears, your own music speaks against you
Your being ostricised by your own

Careful – a crack is spreading
‘Cause you do not act in love

Righteousness with no humility
No self-checking machinery
Guns and the heavy shroud of T.V.

Blanketing our minds, blanketing our eyes
Keeping us so safe, keeping us so dry
Underneath a blackening sky, that’s raining down with fire.

Careful – a crack is spreading
‘Cause you do not act in love

Righteousness with no humility
No self-checking machinery
Guns and the heavy shroud of T.V.

Blanketing our minds, blanketing our eyes
Keeping us so safe, keeping us so blind
Underneath a blackening sky, that’s raining down with fire.

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from Behind The I, released June 1, 2007
Andy Gibson: vocals, guitars, bass
Stephen Thomas: drums
Charmaine Ford: piano
Reb Fountain: vocals
Rachel Wells: cello

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Andy Gibson seeks to make sense of the puzzle we find ourselves in, writing honest songs around themes of psychological (dys)function. Often hopeful, his songs are a documentation of the journey of a queer person seeking mental wellbeing.

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