Farewell Hajj

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Going into recording we were all very afraid this song wasn't going to turn out. Yet instead we are more then pleased with the song final outcome.

It was very fun recording this. It was strange hearing jamie sing the back vocals when I had grow so used to just hearing his one voice alone at shows and practice. The Ginsberg poem is in there as well as a poem title "There is Love" written and... screamed by Cassidy. His poem ties up the song and album fantastically but we always feel the theme is lost to others threw the chaos.

- on a side note there is an alternate rendetion of this song that we occasionally play live were the ending is sung instead of screamed.

lyrics

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Farewell Hajj

Savannah stretched,
atoms bind,
cows sent to town square.
computer flame,
paper love,
dot dot my ring's blood.
Lion's heel,
hearse's steel,
the sun sets on us both.

Are you afraid?
I took your name, and I'm sorry.

Maya rise,
maize masked disguise,
it's your land, not mine.
Jihad of oil,
sticks for soil,
Sun Tzu beaming.
When will I see the beast go hungry, or is this as it should be?
Blood for God,
Cars for bombs,
Mosques and bread crumbs.

That's the sound, you hear, when the bomb goes off.
That's the sound, "ch-ching," when they buy the yacht.
Those are the words, you speak, when your land is lost.
That's revenge, you seek, when your soul is bought.

QUEREMOS JUSTICIA!!

I have seen the greatest minds of my generation destroyed by madness! Starving! Shaking! Hysterical! Dragging themselves through the Negro streets at dawn, Contemplating jazz!

Oh fox! There is no love! Even the blazing sun will burst before its collapse! The fox is found! The star goes black!

There is love!

credits

from Arto, released June 10, 2008
Cassidy J. David-Weber: drums, glockenspiel, voice

Myles Coyne: bass, piano, voice

Jamie Yanda: voice, guitar

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