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Niema (Living Close)

from Slow Murder by The Holy Ghost Tabernacle Choir

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In loving memory of Niema Ross

lyrics

“and when I react with feelings of murder I feel horrified and tell myself that it is fascist to want to murder these people and in my horror at my feelings I attempt to rationalize them by going further saying but in this culture we accept murder as self-defense against those who try to murder us and what’s going on here but public and social murder on a daily bases and it’s happening in our midst and not very many people seem to say or do anything about it. There’s not even an acknowledgment of murder from most of my friends… // and i want to throw up because we’re supposed to quietly and politely make house in this killing machine called America and pay taxes to support our own slow murder and I’m amazed that we’re not running amok in the streets, and that we can still be capable of gestures of loving after lifetimes of all this.”

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i am playing pretend
for those who pray
whether it’s when they see me or every day
i am playing pretend for the ones in blue
whether it’s a uniform or just a suit
i am playing pretend for this machine
that’s eating everything i love and me
no one else is playing along

if the world is a stage then i’m being booed off
I don’t remember my lines
sometimes i think it’d be easier to just take it and die
then i keep getting kicked up from where i lie

your pound of flesh is worth more than mine
I’d like to see what makes it so divine

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from Slow Murder, track released October 7, 2022
Excerpt from 'Living Close To The Knives' by David Wojnarowicz

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The Holy Ghost Tabernacle Choir Savannah, Georgia

left to right:
tanner // drums / vocals
nat // vocals / noise
sleve // bass / vocals
aaron // guitar

photo by wolfe eliot

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