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Gunfighter Ballad for the 21st Century

from Alyosha by Joshua Powell

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This song marries my affinity for the gunfighter ballads of yesteryear (a la Marty Robbins) with my moral disdain for when the militarization of technological progress outpaces legislation. It's a protest of the US government's unchecked use of drones and a prayer for peace.

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I saw you with a boy/I saw the crowded real estate beneath his denim
And I was in the right/so I wrote it in a bill and paid all the right people to plant a seed
I’ve got the coordinates/that’s all they need

While you were holding hands/the backroom wizards loaded more than six into my chamber
As you looked me in the lens, you said, “Do what you have to do and do it quickly.”
I thought you clever to quote our Lord, but there is no Peter in the garden with a sword

Now I know what you are, (droning on, droning on)
Love travels far but modern bullets travel farther

Well Marty had it wrong/I’m safe behind these walls of burnished pedigree
I’ll never hang tonight/already paid the flight with the tax dollars in my pocket
Honey, there is nothing you can do to stop it

Now I know what you are, (droning on, droning on)
Love travels far but modern bullets travel farther

Modern bullets travel faster
Modern bullets travel far

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from Alyosha, released October 14, 2015

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Joshua Powell Indianapolis, Indiana

Joshua Powell is the exhausted wizard at the helm of IN's most haunted rock band. From his hardcore roots in the Floridian swamps and beyond the fever dream of his folk era, his literary lyrics dig for enlightenment in a surrealist muck. “Four LP's and over 900 shows later, the midwestern road dog's ever- evolving, transcendent style embraces hallucinatory metal and grimy psychedelia.” -Audiotree ... more

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