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What It All Is

from Nonet by The Mammals

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    Bonus disk includes: 1) Hangman's Reel (trad.) 2) All the Things (R. Ungar) 3) Let Me Die In My Footsteps (B. Dylan) 4) Something's Got a Hold On Me (E. James) 5) Four Blue Walls (R. Ungar)

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lyrics

What It All Is
(M. Merenda)

I go down to Washington town
I watch them monuments grow
Not in size but in legend
Guess we can still pretend
None of us really know what we know
Still I got a friend buried in Arlington
I guess you get one of ‘em, too?
Who died fightin’ in a war
We’re still not sure what for
Maybe oil? I guess that might be true.

(chorus)
How long, babe, do we go on living like this?
How long, babe, til we realize what it all is?
What is all is.

They say follow money, you catch the thief, honey
And it led me straight to you
And some still believe you’re commander-in-chief
But I know who you answer to
I don’t own no munitions plant
I don’t own no factory farm
But I been told them seeds you sow
Some come back and do you harm.

(chorus)

Out in the forest there’s a beautiful chorus
Teemin’ from every tree
And it’s all been here far longer than you
It’ll all be here long after me
Time is a weapon time is yr best friend
Time is what you make of it
Time made nature, made every last creature
I can’t stand by idly while we’re breakin’ it

(chorus)

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from Nonet, released May 22, 2020

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