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This Used to Be America
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A little protest song about how far astray the USA has gone... This track reached # 23 on the SC Other Alternative charts under my band name, one blue nine.
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TK Major is a veteran singer, guitarist and songwriter, and the main writer and only permanent member of mutant outsider roots pop veteranos, one blue nine.
is a veteran songwriter, singer, and guitarist from Long Beach, California. With deep roots in country, blues, and folk, Major is, nonetheless, probably best known (if at all) for what he calls , since his band, have always subverted the electronic and postmodern impulses of that band.. Believe it or not.
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Genre
Acoustic • Acoustic General
Charts
#3,247 in subgenre Peak #24
Charts
Peak #89
Author
TK Major
Rights
2008, TK Major
Uploaded
June 21, 2008
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MP3 3.8 MB • 128 kbps • 4:07
Story behind the song
Check the papers over the last five years (I'm writing this right at the beginning of 2008) and get back to me if you have any questions.
Lyrics
This Used to Be America This used to be America This used to be the land of the free This used to be the United States but nothin's like it used to be we put ourselves in the hands of fools threw our birthrights away put the bottom line at the top of our world let the god of greed hold sway it takes 200,000 bullets to kill one enemy that what the DoD numbers say if you don't count peripheral casualties Americans don't torture We don't kill recklessly thats what the man in the white house says that's how we want it to be but it's gettin' pretty hard to believe blowback's a bitch but how could we know? though our wise men kept telling us so we fed the tiger we got by the tail and now we just can't bear to let him go 2008 is coming but it wont mean anything if you/we don't stand up for freedom and take back our democracy This used to be America This used to be the land of the free but I swear it's not too late for the United states we can still be who we know we should be (C)2007, TK Major » highest in charts: # 86 (125,481 songs currently listed in Alternative) » highest in sub-genre: # 23 (15,656 songs currently listed in Alternative > Other Alternative)
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