1. |
Tethered to the Ground
03:25
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Tethered to the Ground
(©2006 Anders/O'Bitz)
A small redemption to be found
And I'm headin' for it
Oh the modesty of the ground
A body evidenced so sound
But I'm reelin' from it
'Cause I know what can't be found
Tethered to the ground
But I'm reelin' from it
'Cause I know what can't be found
As I'm headin' for it
Feel it all around
See it all around
A slow acceptance of it now
As I'm headin' for it
A restless intellect calms down
Tethered to the ground
But I'm reelin' from it
'Cause I know what can't be found
As I'm headin' for it
Tethered to the ground
But I'm reelin' from it
'Cause I know what can't be found
As I'm eadin' for it
Tethered to the ground
I'm tethered to the ground
We're tethered to the ground
But we reel from it
'Cause we know what can't be found
'Cause we know what can't be found
'Cause we know what can't be found
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2. |
Big World Abide
04:32
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Big World Abide
(©2006 Anders/O'Bitz)
Santa's small world
Not just a white lie
'Cause we went to bed
So safe inside
How hard to say goodnight
Big world abide
Telling our lies of black and white
Safe Inside
God's got a list
He's checkin' it twice
Heaven's the gift
For those who are nice
But still hard to say goodnight
Big world abide
Telling our lies of black and white
Safe Inside
Not innocent fairy tales
Red is the sum of this black and white
Dealin' in good and evil
These believers they terrorize
You might hope our lies evolve
It seems, hardly at all
From the big world we'll ever hide
Not abide … say goodnight
They said it was just a little white lie
We were told before goodnight
These lies of black and white
Stories for kids to feel safe inside
These lies of black and white
To which we'll hold and for which we'll die
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3. |
Remains In Me
04:21
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Remains In Me
(©2011 Anders/O'Bitz)
Bitter frost
They try to keep warm
Wet blankets worn over heads
At what cost
Guns pointed down
So many innocents dead
What remains in me
Of manifest destiny
Why give medals of honor
For Wounded Knee
Pine Ridge wars
Dick Wilson's thugs
Backed by thugs of the Feds
And what for
Guns pointed up
More dead at Jumping Bull Ranch
What remains in me
Of manifest destiny
Why give medals of honor
For Wounded Knee
Have we lost
Wind Chases the Sun
Continues his mournful ghost dance
And we're taught
The aboriginal sin
On which our divided state stands
What remains in me
Of manifest destiny
What chance of honor
For genocide's progeny
What remains in me
Of manifest destiny
What chance of honor
For genocide's progeny
Bitter frost
They try to keep warm
Wet blankets worn over heads
Have we lost
Wind Chases the Sun
Continues his mournful ghost dance
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4. |
These People
03:09
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These People
(©2006 Anders/West)
These people who gave me life
Lived in color not black and white
The unforgettable two are still alive
Not true for the four and so on
These people who gave me life
What debt is owed and who pays the price?
What kind of currency could we hope to contrive?
How contrived
You know I don't know
Names of one of the eight of mine
Powers of two obscured by time
And branching lines
If I give someone life
How long remembered?
Bio memory down the line
And how does that matter?
The people who saved my life
Mostly women but none a wife
My sisters mainly have helped me to get by
Oh I can't imagine life without them
The people who saved my life
A debt is owed and the payments mine
The currency it is known and older than time
And I want to pay it
If someone saves a life
They will be remembered
A type of memory down another line
And that seems to matter oh.
These people.
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5. |
Remembering On My Own
03:19
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Remembering On My Own
(©2005 Anders/O'Bitz)
Here in these photographs
Lovers who have gone
The near and far of the past
I'm still bettin' on the con …
Of waiting for that someone to come along
Who'll lighten all my loads and sing my song
I just can't believe it's been this long
Tears from these photographs
Cut me to the bone
Haunted by what couldn't last
I remember on my own
Waiting for that someone to come along
Who'll lighten all my loads and sing my song
I just can't believe it takes so long … so long
No tears and no photographs
What's gone is simply gone
And though we can't leave the past
Can't I get beyond?
Waiting for that someone to come along
Who'll lighten all my loads and sing my song
I just can't believe it's been so long
No, I can't believe it's been so long
Cannot find the way to make me whole
Cannot find that someone for so long
Feeling like my waiting was wrong
Can't find the way to get back home
Can't find the way to get back home
I'm left here waiting now they're gone
I'm left remembering on my own
On my own …
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6. |
Blister in the Sun
03:18
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Blister in the Sun
(©1980, 2005 Gorno Music)
We've been talking
It's not enough
Man we're so strung out
From high as a kite
Now we might
Stop and just check out
Let us go on
Like a blister in the sun
Let us go on
I know you're the one
Our bodies beat
Strained by these needs
Could we ever know why?
You're my girlfriend
Are we at the end?
No use starting to cry
Let us go on
Like a blister in the sun
Let us go on
I know you're the one
We've been talking
It's not enough
Man we're so strung out
From high as a kite
Now we might
Stop and just check out
Let us go on
Like a blister in the sun
Let us go on
I know you're the one
Let us go on
Like a blister in the sun
Let us go on
I know you're the one … On … On ...
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7. |
Icarus
04:12
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Icaurus
(©2005 Anders/Mitchell)
I search the lowlands
For my great escape
I can't find her
I make my wings
To fly above this place
So I can reach her
I'm flyin' here
And I climb up so very high away
I'm sure she's there
High above where I was all those days
So many trials
I was hardly chaste
Guilty of it
An oceanic feeling
Set my taste
I can't forget it
I'm flyin' here
And I climb up to the place she stays
I'm sure she's there
High above where I was all those days
And I want
Until I'm burned by the sun
And I want
But my wings melt away
Tumblin' through
A blue chaos that brings
Visions of others
Left behind
So I could make my wings
Hard to recover
I'm fallin' here
Tangled up inside my wax and string
Oh was she there?
High above the high of my wings
And I want
Until I'm burned by the sun
And I want
But my wings melt away
And I want
Like I'm the only one
And I want
And then I fall away
Battered and bruised
I look for some care
I can't find it
I made my wings
To fly above their fare
They won't forget it
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8. |
Genocide and Justice
05:11
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Genocide and Justice
(©2011 Anders/O'Bitz)
They turned down the road
A bumpy dirt road
In two city cars
On a country dirt road
Drove into war
As if it weren't war
They died in this war
Off a country dirt road
Charged with murder
Within an unjust war
Just 'cause the victors said so
Genocide and justice
The mixture does not hold
Even if the victors say so
We keep saying it's so
From Little Big Horn
To Wounded Knee
To Jumping Bull ranch
And '73
The war is won
We'll celebrate
Columbus Day
Let's have a parade
Charged with murder
Within an unjust war
Just 'cause the victors said so
Genocide and justice
The mixture does not hold
Even if the victors say so
We keep saying it's so
Wind Chases the Sun
Still dancing his dance
A circle of one
Never given a chance
Until his freedom
Is duly won
No parades
No Independence Day
Charged with murder
Within an unjust war
Just 'cause the victors said so
Genocide and justice
The mixture does not hold
Even if the victors say so
We keep saying it's so
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Looking Forward to Your Fall
(©2006 Anders/O'Bitz)
The higher the climbin'
The harder the fall
Just an old sayin'
I hope says it all … says it all
Looking forward to your fall
So good I bet
Looking forward to your fall
Your fall
You talked about freedom
Billions appalled
Abu Ghraib prison
You didn't care at all
So fond of fighting
As long as others called
Sixty thousand boomers down
Now you control the calling
Death toll mounting
You don't care … at all
twice
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10. |
Never Enough
03:33
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Never Enough
(©2003 Anders/O'Bitz)
You check your watch
We fumble for some words
Who would suspect
We've been together
such a long long time?
But we've shown a bit too much
Can you only turn and run?
You say, "I can't help it"
No, you're right
I'm sure
It's hard to hope like before
Don't try ... anymore
It could never be enough
It used to be
You'd look at me and take me in
Now, when I catch your eyes
The only thing
I see in them is distance
And a bit of waning guilt
You've seemed to have had your fill
You say, "I can't help it"
No, you're right
I'm sure
It could never be like before
No point... anymore
It could never be enough
A question for you
And one for me too
What is enough?
Can we decide
With peace of mind
Based on before
And before the before?
No, you're right
I'm sure
It's hard to hope like before
Don't try... anymore
It could never be enough
No, you're right
I'm sure
It could never be like before
No point... anymore
It could never be enough
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11. |
Settlin' Comes
03:27
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Settlin' Comes
(©2005 Anders/Mitchell)
If you know the answer to
This question all around
Why that feelin' so seldom comes
Why it's so hard found
A feel for settlin' comes
Oh in time
Ah before settlin' comes
I feel for a ride
And if I say to you
And look you in the eye
Sure this feelin's bound to come
That is, before this dies
And could you look right back at me
Say it's not a lie
Could you see me as the settlin' kind
Not too much to hide
A feel for settlin' comes
Oh in time
Ah before settlin' comes
I feel for a ride
Why does settlin' make me sigh
Make me want to lie
Feel for a ride
And could you say this warning
Won't make you want to fly
And do you think you could settle for
A "please let us try"
A feel for settlin' comes
Oh I hope in time
Oh I hope this settlin' comes
I'm tired of this ride
A feel for settlin' comes
Oh I hope in time
That is before that settlin' comes
The kind when we die
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12. |
How Low and Why
04:07
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How Low and Why
(©2006 Anders/O'Bitz)
How low and why
How low before we open our eyes
How low and why
How low before we can't ask why
How low d'we go with slavery then
How low our aboriginal sin
How low against the Vietminh
How low before it ends
How low and why
How low our wanton luxury ride
How low and why
How low before we can't ask why
How low d'we go with slavery then
How low our aboriginal sin
How low against the Vietminh
How low before it ends
So high we started for the times
So high the high for men who were white
So high these freedoms, and rights
So high so many held them up in awe and began the fight
Eyes on the prize
How low and why
How low so we can turn off the fight
How low and why
How low now that we can't ask why
How low d'we go with slavery then
How low our aboriginal sin
How low against the Vietminh
How low before it ends
How low before it ends
For it ends ... for it ends
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Eric Anders California
Californian singer-songwriter, Eric Anders, released his anti-Trump album, Eleven Nine, in the spring of 2017. The album was
produced and mixed by Matthew Emerson Brown.
See Eric's latest release, released as a duo with Mark O'Bitz in June, 2018: Of All These Things. Eric and Mark are working on their second duo release, Ghosts To Ancestors, which should be out early 2019.
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