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Track 8 from Happiness - out 12/13
lyrics
From down in the mine, to the statues on high
The names that they leave lose their meaning with time
The hands they'd shake and the hands that they'd bind
All are hands like yours and mine
And the chains we're still dragging, the broken branches of family
That hang neath the shadows of the ones we love madly
Each generation leaves the next to overcome
The failed promise of the things they've done
And the fathers of our fathers
May their anger be buried with their bones
And the daughters of our daughters
They need not know
And I know there were times you felt on the outside
Hearing the rush of the freeway through your window at night
Well baby I got my own road that divides
The line I walk with the bed I lie
And no matter what you do to me you got nothing to prove to me
I'll love you in the judgement of the morning light, you should see
I'm gonna love you when the money's all gone
In the black of night, in the blue of dawn
And the fathers of our fathers
May their anger be buried with their bones
And the daughters of our daughters
They need not know
We got work to do
This ain't easy for me and you
This ain't easy for anyone
Never met no one whose work was done
The fathers of our fathers
lifted in steel, frozen in stone
And the bodies that lie neath the dawn's early light
Stay unknown
Yeah the fathers of our fathers
May their anger be buried with their bones
And the daughters of our lovely daughters
They need not know
credits
released December 9, 2011
Dave Smallen - Guitar, Vocals, Organ, Engineer, Producer
Natalie Ryan - Background Vocals
Evan Evans - Bass
Noah Clark - Drums & Percussion
Max Bernstein - Guitar, Engineer
Robert Cheek - Engineer, Mixing
Hans Dekline - Mastering
Written by Dave Smallen
Recorded at The Hangar in Sacramento, Dave's house in Los Angeles, Max's place in Los Angeles
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