Shortest Straw

from Mellow Majic by Deaf Telepathy

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The shortest straw the bourgeois made us draw
The shortest straw declawed us with your laws
The shortest straw now will be the last and break your spineless backs
We cannot breath we’re choking on your smears
Liberty thieves our words won’t disappear
We’re bound to bereave year after year so we’re immune to tear gas

We’re starving, you’re numb to pain
We’re fighting, you’re playing games
We’re protesting, you’re on parade throwing empty emblems

So tell me, can we teach the blind to see
With fire setting ablaze their eyes
Bombardier can we help the deaf hear
With thunder rolling from our cries

Unborn walking as if they’ve seen the light
Sleepers talking as if they know the plight
Different colors obscuring the one thread stitching vision forward
Siamese twins tearing out their seems
Shedding skin, stomping out our dreams
Couldn’t recognize the strange fruit from an over-ripened orchard.

So tell me, can we teach the blind to see
With fire setting ablaze their eyes
Bombardier can we help the deaf hear
With thunder rolling from our cries

Brother, by and by, you’ve got a long way to fall
‘Till we’re eye to eye
Brother, don’t you lie, you’ve got a long way to fall
Break line testify
Brother, gemini, you’ve got a long way to fall
Long way to fall

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from Mellow Majic, released May 29, 2021
Music written and performed by Brian Blaney, Marcus Giovacchini, Carson and Colby Schnackenberg
Lyrics by Colby Schnackenberg

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Deaf Telepathy is a rock band that makes music some people find interesting and others find repulsive.

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