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Call​/​Response

from Playing Dead by Empty Orchestra

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lyrics

once it's been shot, the arrow will find a place to stop
and i thought that i was ready for anything
and i thought all along that this song we were singing
was a call and response --
was i wrong? is it not?
isn't it strange --
the grim mechanics of how we get through the day,
when everything inside fights to escape.
a rush of blood rose up,
kissed the air and turned red;
embarrassed to be shown
embarrassed to be known
embarrassed to be seen
everything at once came rushing up,
like blood does to a cut
and i thought that i was ready for anything.
for anything.

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from Playing Dead, released June 17, 2014

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Empty Orchestra Flint, Michigan

We are Empty Orchestra, and we are an American musical group from Flint, Michigan.
Our songs are fistfights of traditions and generations and genres and tempos and hope and doubt and death and punchlines. Our roots are in punk rock and our ambitions are for song creation without boundaries.
We are a community. We love making songs, we love playing songs, we love you. Thanks. This is fun.
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