Name: Brownshirts
Duration: P00H04M30S
Description: There is that dysfunction that produces what this song is about, the strain of hateful rage that blinds people to their humanity, allows them to demonize others who are different in some way... and the sociopaths swoop in to commandeer chaos and exercise their domination.

Brownshirts

from Teary Deluge by Thinkspeak

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There is that dysfunction that produces what this song is about, the strain of hateful rage that blinds people to their humanity, allows them to demonize others who are different in some way... and the sociopaths swoop in to commandeer chaos and exercise their domination.

lyrics

They were active in the 20s came into power in the 30s
they were more than indifferent to the liberty of others
their billy clubs and their blitzkrieg echo through the rubble

they desecrated the temple they pillaged the nation
bloodied a decade devastated a generation
their madness and their sadism echo through the rubble

chorus:
brownshirts came and went back they came back they came
brownshirts came and went back they came changed their name
back they came

2.
in forest and rice field napalm and agent orange
in hamlets where bounties were paid on Asian ears
where search and destroy echo through the rubble

they're to be found as police in Central America
bound to be around when the landlord calls
their blunt souls and sharp instruments echo through the rubble
to chorus

3.
a child is bent by cigarettes pressed to her precious skin
and fierce words that cut deep straight to her self
strangled magnificence echoing through the rubble

slashing daggers reappear inconvenient years
mutated angel suffocating rage
poison love and violence echo through the rubble - chorus

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from Teary Deluge, released May 1, 2013

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Thinkspeak Atlanta, Georgia

Tom Ferguson has been writing songs since 1969, all of which are collected in Songs, 1969-2018. It's coil-bound to nicely fit a music stand, available at lulu.com just search tom ferguson there.

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