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Damp In The Trenches (Xmas Carol)

from More Fun by X-tal

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There's a fast quick command
Ripping through my skull
The origin of it
You don't care to think to know
Bush pushing us back
Firmly and not slow
Bodies sinking, riches melting
Riches melting in the snow
And I forgot it once, but I heard it twice
Another Christ-kissed day of delight
Voiced at day, voices at night
Women's bodies, males decide

Damp in the trenches
Ain't got the enemy right
Let's go now, you and me
Rich power structure elite
Born upon Babylon
Puffy face, blood dries
Nothing accomplished
It ain't black and white
It's just the blackened hands on newsprint
TV eyes glare blind
Sell the tension
Click the deadbolt tight

And go out and buy everything
Everything you don't need
You're buying, buying everything
An open-ended greed

Meanwhile in Union Square
Shoppers knocking their ass off
Frantically grabbing the scents
Of the animals we kill and oppress
Romantically shopping for the finest tree
It comes without roots
Steal it please!

You're buying, buying everything
Everything you don't need
You're buying, buying everything
An open-ended greed

Down at the clinic
Fools yell and scream
Morals and Christian sin
Oppression to no end
Women as containers
To gobble up sperm and breed breed breed
More soldiers please!
Poor soldiers bleed...

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from More Fun, released May 16, 2010
(Jimmy Broustis)
© 1991 Undulant Rhetoric (BMI)

Jimmy Broustis: Vocals and guitar
Mick Freeman: Drums and vocals
J Neo Marvin: Guitar
Allison Moseley: Bass

Produced by X-tal and Greg Freeman
Recorded at Lowdown Studio, 1991
Originally released by Alias Records on the Humboldt Desert EP, 1991

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X-tal San Francisco, California

Here, for the first time, the entire recorded output of X-tal in one place.

X-tal (1983-1996) were a San Francisco post-punk band fronted by J Neo Marvin. Greil Marcus of the Village Voice described them as a “small-time San Francisco combo that wears their defeated leftist politics on their sleeves and can open for the Mekons without letting you forget them when the headliners come on.” ... more

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