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Soul Politics

from Mayday by X-tal

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Everybody get up off your egos
I'm not impressed that you know your own name
The house you've built is crumbling down now
You cannot go back to from where you came

I don't care what progressive papers
You got all those impressive words from
Tell me about your daily relations
How do you act when you get home?
That's soul...that's politics

What we see is what we hate
We're in a fucked up state
What do we want? We want too much
But we still want what we want
Why not? We're bound to die from what we've got!

Down in the freezer compartment
They're much too jaded to think about the truth
They all know that everything sucks
But they don't think there's anything they've got to do
And they're the ones that we're going to have to talk to.

We put up borders between our thoughts
This matters and that does not
You sing the blues or you're singing the news
But it's all the same and I refuse to choose
That's soul...that's politics

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from Mayday, released July 1, 1994
(J Neo Marvin)
© 1994 Undulant Rhetoric (BMI)

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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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