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Proletariat

by Mountain Party

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Rhiannon B. These guys have a lot of talent and sincere energy behind their music, it's emo rock for the frustrated leftist who still works in their hometown despite having waaaaay too much education in a totally different field. Favorite track: Mill Town.
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1.
Proletariat 03:18
in the end, i know we're all human but most of us tend to forget, myself included and sometimes i have the very same tendencies as my enemies and my friends have seen the worst of it truly but when i saw my son for the first time it threw me and i knew we will get through this together and maybe even for better and even if we never forgive or forget or understand the reasons that we disagree most of us truly make the same men rich so listen up neighbors your labor is worthy and its time to be unruly hey proletariat! go on and clock out now! you want to win this? come on and tear it down bless this mess im ready to march and goddamn their hands for leaving marks and telling us that everything is going to be okay and when the runways clear and the streets are filled and every tin foil hat and oil spill has been cleaned up and its safe to go outside maybe then we'll be alright they got money to burn, they got money to spend they got money they earned, they got money to lend we got money we owe, but no money to grow its only money we know, its only money we know they got our worth in hands that never worked a day in their goddamn lives but they make us pay for the things they take and the lives they break but its not okay, no its not okay
2.
Mill Town 02:42
she grew up in a mill town where the rich now live in lofts two stories or more from the floor where her grandfather died on the job moved away at 18, came back when she was 23 after her mother's funeral, and the only things that she could see were the dead mills lit up for new owners and her mother who couldnt get an organ donor and the hospital bed where they didnt want to keep her and the floor where everybody dies shes gonna burn it down tonight she says "this whole town is a miracle! how do all of you not go insane?" everyone says shes crazy but they swear theyll pray shes not especially spiritual but she goes to church anyway she says maybe god will show up someday because there's hell to pay for thedead mills lit up for new owners and her mother who couldnt get an organ donor and the hospital bed where they didnt want to keep her and the floor where everybody dies shes gonna burn it down tonight with her love and fire and light shes gonna burn it down tonight singing "our guts are the same on the inside! burn it down tonight! the only way to make it out alive! they don't care if we survive! because it's all about the bottom line!"
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i was born into his family, boss wants you for himself works hard to crush the man in me, no other work when you got wealth spent some time in penitentiary because i got caught stealing bread he says "just close your eyes and clench your teeth, and i'll make sure that they get fed" i spent some time in the yard today and took a bite from a hand that had to pay when you got nothing you got nothing to lose except the yellow river game ranch blues oh i want you to get rid of me just put me out of my mind im so conditioned to this misery they keep me locked up with my kind but sometimes i go to the beach and sometimes i can play as long as i dont see the strings as long as boss gets paid i spent some time in the yard today and took a bite from a hand grenade when you got nothing you got nothing to lose except the yellow river game ranch blues
4.
i was born in the shadow of a mountain carved to remember a lost cause and the way men fought to preserve the old Southern agenda my granddad moved to this state with his bride from Alabama worked 30 years in an auto plant so we could vacation to Savannah and we all were fine til my grandma died im the son of a man who's walked from Georgia all the way to Maine and he taught me to play a guitar and said to let your heart feel pain and he found my mom who told me son to find something to believe in she said "i dont care what it is, just make sure that you believe it" and they raised me right and i turned out fine but it doesnt take family and you dont need jesus christ to know a human being is still a human being and it doesnt take much to say yeah weve had it all wrong and its time for moving on and the so-called Glory Days are gone

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released April 5, 2019

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Mountain Party Atlanta, Georgia

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Mountain Party is a rock and roll band from Atlanta. Think the E-Street Band doing Weakerthans and Desaparecidos covers and you're halfway there. Mountain Party practices in a basement and plays shows on occasion and performs loud and often cathartic music about the everyday trauma of the American experience. ... more

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