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Inside the Sacrifice Zone

from Eleven Nine by Eric Anders

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The title of this song comes from the NYRB article that inspired it:

www.nybooks.com/articles/2016/11/10/american-right-inside-the-sacrifice-zone/

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Inside the Sacrifice Zones*
(©2016 Anders/Brown/Nuffer)

Here inside this zone of sacrifice
EPA’s not welcome with advice
The company’s the one on which we rely
The company means jobs but we pay the price

Nothing to do, can’t be undone
Dirt poor yet the billionaire is the one

To whom we sing our hell-fire songs?
And who are these suits singing along?
And why do our songs last so long?
No one really knows how we get it so wrong

Here inside the UMWA
We remember all the mine wars to the day
We remember mother jones and how they paid
Forgot it all it seems election day

Nothing to do, can’t be undone
Dirt poor yet the union buster’s the one

To whom we sing our hell-fire songs?
And who are these suits singing along?
And why do our songs last so long?
No one really knows how we get it so wrong

Is it true
All our songs
Out of tune
Can they lift us up again
The local chorus so ill-attuned

We sing of home
Out of tune
Demand our home
Ill attuned
Not just your home
You don’t live alone

To whom we sing our hell-fire songs?
And who are these suits singing along?
And why do our songs last so long?
No one really knows how we get it so wrong
No one really knows how we get it so wrong


Written by Eric Anders, Matthew Emerson Brown and Tyler Nuffer
Vocals: Eric Anders
Drums - Andrew Rudd
Bass - Stephen Baldock
Acoustic Guitar, Lap Steel - Tyler Nuffer
Piano - Aaron Otheim
Organ, Electric Guitar - Matthew Emerson Brown
Backing Vocals - Lydia Ramsey

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from Eleven Nine, released April 20, 2017

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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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