Lyrics to s/t 12″ EP on Amor y Lucha Records, 2009.

Construct
We built a wall
Six feet tall
Tore it down
To watch it fall
We built this wall
Sixteen times
And we fell in love
With another lie.

The Sun Also Rises
Are you dreaming of the West?
Where the new sun welcomes death
Have you waited far too long
To hear the call, that will take you home
If you are traveling to the North
Take this letter for my one true love
Tell her, life to me was fair
And now I lay in fields the color of her hair
And when the rain begins to fall
When the rain comes
And the waters swallow all
When the hard rain… when it starts to fall
When the rivers take your body
And your heart sinks, deep down below…

Crystal Caskets
Love is vicious,
When you purchase it with blood
I hear the deafening sound of bullets,
It drowns out the songs of hope
I can taste the car-bomb ashes,
Is this what you call the new “rule of law”?
I can see that your death-proof jacket,
Holds nothing more than a pig and you know
We’re not trying to forget
For your sake, learn to regret
Now we sleep in tin roof prisons
High on the hills, which we once called our own
While you sleep in crystal caskets
Made from our breath and our bones
And will we learn to forget?
For your sake, learn to regret
This city is burning.

The Sea and The Hills
You speak with such decorum of these matters
You speak as though all is now well and forgotten
Words they come cheap, like a promise
Words lose all meaning when spoken by tyrants
I’ve seen the broken bodies drifting through the water
I’ve learned the names spoken by sons and daughters
I’ve heard their stories, a whisper from the ocean.