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Desaparecidos "Live at Shea Stadium"

by Desaparecidos

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1.
It begins when we chain ourselves to the ATMs Make a mess when we pitch our tents on the statehouse steps Now we're taking it, now we're taking it back Now we're taking it, now we're taking it back For the greater good Goddamn Robin Hoods Fan the flames, serve them cocktails down at the Stock Exchange Hear the screams, take our baseball bats to the limousines They'll be talking us, they'll be talking us up They'll be talking us, they'll be talking us up To the journalists If there's any left You know the Sixties proved that change is hit or miss Every bloody pacifist concedes the truth If one must die to save the ninety-nine Maybe it's justified The left is right We're doomed
2.
You were calling out from the underground You had lots of big ideas but no one can hear them now They riddled you with guilt They tempted you with wealth They twisted all your words They made you hate yourself So now you do your schtick, a loyal patriot And you toe the party line even though it makes you sick They gave you talking points They taught you double-speak They forced you into war By saying you were weak They signed your checks til they had you in the bag They scared you blind then draped you in a flag Made you a man at Ft. Bragg You'll do good business as an apologist If you exaggerate their facts, if you perpetuate their myths They made activism trite They made honor optional They made propaganda news They made science radical They pulled your teeth til you smiled and agreed They slit you throat and buried you at sea All for the land of the free
3.
All the founding fathers sewed their seeds In the southern coast All the godless heathens had to leave To make a newer world So we could live together in America Justice is blinding so is love Oh-oh, oh-oh Oh-oh, oh-oh All the stolen melodies they played In the hit parade All the power spirituals they fade In a salute So we could sing together in America Black sermon anthem, painted love Polystyrene 100 dollar bills To build a shining city on the hill (Forgot them all!) There's no cure for pain or shame You just have to be this way Oh-oh, oh-oh Oh-oh, oh-oh If you steal and hustle don't get caught Gotta risk it all Hang on every note that they read off For the Powerball We'll all get rich together in America Money's indifferent – so is love Trash bags full of 100 dollar bills (Statues on the wall) We left that broke down city on the hill (Forget them all!) Have to relocate the past Because we're never going back
4.
My whole family tree has got nothing to eat The machine guns guard the checkpoint from starving refugees So when I stop to pray for the fifth time today Still see my sister Alma with a hole in her skull As the tanks pulled away Radicalized! Radicalized! Radical lies! Radical lies! I'm so surprised my mind's a tug-o-war Radicalized! Radicalized! Radical lies! Radical lies! It's no surprise my mind's not mine no more Can't afford no dream with a G.E.D. Recruiter shook my brother's hand now he's all he can be So when his team's Humvee hit the I.E.D. Me and my mother we cried in our new double wide Around the Christmas tree Radicalized! Radicalized! Radical lies! Radical lies! I'm so surprised my mind's a tug-o-war Radicalized! Radicalized! Radical lies! Radical lies! It's no surprise my mind's not mine no more Radicalized! Radicalized! Radical lies! Radical lies! I'm so surprised my mind's a tug-o-war Radicalized! Radicalized! Radical lies! Radical lies! It's no surprise my mind's not mine no more
5.
Always fast asleep in the middle of the day They talk soft at my bedside, now, either way Fill out the paperwork it's just another little form Each policy has its benefits but some claims aren't covered anymore I'll pay the blood test money Heavy premium I had to quit my job Don't want to sponge off the government but I'm coughing blood I met the specialist who will decide my fate She smiled down at my X-ray said I'm an ideal candidate But you got to understand It's not part of the plan It's good news but you're not out of the woods You got to wait your turn boy Be careful what you earn And we'll call you back Just try and stay strong honey Always wide awake in the middle of the night Follow my friends through the telephone but it isn't life Feeling incomplete, I got the crossword done I'll be prepared when they cut me up but I can't imagine hell or heaven But I finally understand It's all out of my hands I lived way longer than they said I would So now I'm taking all your love Like an experimental drug Come by sometime a laugh would do me good We got to let it go boys You know we're all on hold 'Til they call you back
6.
I'm growing out my hair like it was when I was single It was longer than I'd known you I had no money then. I had no worries then at all But with such a high standard of living I just feel like I am dying I would start an argument but you can barely even talk But there is always good reason for your silence You have to take care of some business So I fix your plate and I stay out of the way And you will stay like that forever Right in front of your computer You'll look up one day but you won't recognize me So now you want to change You read a letter from a lawyer Want to take me out to dinner You want to bury me under a mound of shopping bags Like it would really make a difference Or make up for your disinterest I'm a bill you pay. I'm a contract you can't break And it's like I'm under water Or on an endless escalator I just go up and up but I don't ever reach the top And it reads just like the Bible Twenty centuries of scandal I guess it all depends on how you interpret it The word is love, the word is loss The words are damaged goods That's what I am. A lifetime gets chalked up to an experience Coincidence. we are chained to the events That's it
7.
Propped up at the pulpit A speech to please the proles With coca-cola Trickling down my throat Well would you save all of your bottles If I promised a refund It's gonna come I swear I swear I swear I swear That it is If you've got a special interest There is influence I could sell Just like water takes the shape of where it is held I'm overflowing with ambition But I got to keep in mind The bottom line Is the dollar signs And big bright lights Inequality franchised The next location is mine We're gonna lower costs It's a work of art Our giant golden arch I'm gonna start a factory The size of a country I'm gonna teach them all To work for liberty oh But I'm not one for handouts No they got to pay their dues They can make our shoes And then we'll walk on you Always on the move We heard that business will boom If some people are removed I know there's all body types But we have just one size I don't care if it's tight It's the dollar signs And the big bright lights Inequality franchised Every location is mine You just do your part Form a line lets march Under the golden arch March march march march
8.
What you learned, what you read in their books All they offered What you saw when they told you to look A final offer Well, today we are giving birth To a new future Yeah, today we are giving birth To our own future We will learn, we will love, we will work Change each other We will spread, we will cover the earth Like air and water Water, water, water Change each other We will spread, we will cover the earth Like air and water Tomorrow is blank, we'll just fill it in With our own answers If we are stopped, we'll just start again That's the new offer Offer That's it That's our final one
9.
Can’t live today off that minimum wage unless you sleep on the factory floor If there is anything great left in this sorry state it was built on the backs of the poor So we buy and we sell for your corporate cartel and we vote when the contestant sings A mind-control mix for our obedience, strong sleep-aids and hard energy drinks Cause Freedom is not free Neither is apathy “Slay Goliath! Slay Goliath!” The flashmob all held up their phones But you cannot predict when the students riot And a big machine always moves slow So throw your little stone You can’t stop us We are Anonymous You can’t stop us We are Anonymous Expect us We know what all of us know You can’t stop us We are Anonymous You can’t stop us We are Anonymous Expect us We know what all of us know A half-dozen cops came to seize a laptop from a sleeping fifteen year old kid They broke down the door and discovered some more, a hundred million exactly like him So we do not forgive and we do not forget, we are legion, expect us, you’ll see The righteous will resist, underfed eat the rich and the data mines finally come clean Cause Freedom is not free And neither is secrecy You can’t stop us We are Anonymous You can’t stop us We are Anonymous Expect us We know what all of us know You can’t stop us We are Anonymous You can’t stop us We are Anonymous Expect us We know what all of us know We know what Big Brother did We’re the Tattletale We’ll see your All-Seeing-Eye in hell
10.
There is a lynching at Home Depot of the last day laborer In this sanctuary city with its anchor-baby births They say "Its time we had some justice for the white race on this earth This place is strange and getting stranger" "We got to round 'em up! Door to door tonight we're ready" Knock Knock Knock "Drag them from their beds They got some nerve to say they were here first" "We're gonna round them up! Hiding in the semi-trailers" Knock Knock Knock "Beat it in their heads We keep our word and Maricopa pure" They're sweating in Sun City cause they just got off the course Saying "Sheriff Joe it's awful and it's only getting worse" "Oh did you hear about Rob Krentz? They left him bleeding in the dirt These Spics are brave and getting braver" "We got to round 'em up! Door to door the posse is ready" Knock Knock Knock "Drag them from their beds Cause it's their turn for someone to get hurt" "We're gonna round 'em up! Crying in the day-care center" Knock Knock Knock "Beat it in their heads They'll never learn until Maricopa burns!"
11.
Well, traffic's kind of bad They're widening Easy Street To fit more SUVs, they're planting baby trees to grow to shady peaks A little shelter from the sun Or the upper tax bracket Here on the cul-de-sac we're not giving back till the community repents Cause we can't afford to be generous There's closing costs and a narrow margin So go earn your degree and we'll take you out to lunch You can work for us But you got to eat em all up Yeah, one more mouth full and we will be happy then Yeah, one more mouth full and we will be happy then Out west they're moving dirt To make a greater Omaha Another franchise sold, so there's even more restaurants per capita And they all got a drive-thru Yeah, who's got time to dine? Although the floors are clean, the color scheme, it compliments me every time So no one starves in this cattle town The semis pass making squealing sounds And it's all you can eat And they'll never get enough They'll be feeding us They'll be feeding on us Just one more mouth full and they will be happy then Yeah, one more mouth full and they will be happy then All those golden fields, lovely empty space They're building drug stores now until non remains I've been driving now for a hundred blocks Saw fifty Kum-And-Goes, sixty parking lots Yeah, one more mouth full and they will be happy then Yeah, one more mouth full and they will be happy then One more Yeah, one more It's one more Just one more Just one more It's one more

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The album was recorded June 25 2015 at the storied Brooklyn DIY space and served as the release show for the band's long-awaited 2nd LP Payola. During a years-long hiatus from Bright Eyes, singer Conor Oberst had rededicated himself to his own seminal punk band Desaparecidos, getting the original all-star lineup of hometown Omaha friends & fam back on the stage and in the studio again after nearly a decade to handle some unfinished business.

A joint release by Brooklyn labels Freeman Street and Shea Stadium Records, this is the first live offering in the Desa catalog, and the ideal vehicle to experience the wild, raw, anthemic energy of a legendary punk band at the top of their game.

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released April 1, 2022

Desaparecidos: Music & Lyrics
Conor Oberst: Vocals, Guitar
Denver Dalley: Guitar
Ian McElroy: Keyboards
Landon Hedges: Bass, Vocals
Matt Baum: Drums

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Freeman Street Records is a Brooklyn-based vinyl record label founded in September of 2018 by Charles and Kristen Lee-Haug after almost a decade fostering each other’s love of music and amassing their vinyl collection together. Freeman Street specializes in pressing records that span a wide variety of music genres and epitomizing the creative and D.I.Y. spirit of Brooklyn, NY. ... more

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