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Agitator

by Buddie

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1.
It’s five in the morning Without any warning We’re up and out Gone up to the mountain Walking in the dark Race against our star We’ll trudge through the puddles The mud and the rubble That soak our shoes The beam of our lamp light Using every sense Frost in the forest And when we get to the top Out on the open rock We made it just before the break of the sun And even in the wind And the cold air thin It’s like we’re out of body Inside the glow The orange yields to greens and yellow When night gives way to day
2.
Standing in queue under skies colored blue in the city Bricks on the ground feet all click or they pound as we wait Grateful to wait as we place all our faith in a science A sought after sigh of relief through our teeth in parade And yet the whole world won’t even know we went It’s class warfare and that’ll come our way again An integral part of the process so oft overlooked Like a trout out of water we won’t make it out of the brook And like a bee with no flower we’re missing the power to live We’re aphids on plants sucking life from the land in denial And soon the whole world won’t remember we went It’s class warfare and that’ll come our way again Oh, the view from the peak Clouds float underneath View from the peak Clouds float underneath Winds will blow them away
3.
Baffled by the incapacities In your old apartment, your whole life in totality With the outside world set ablaze Struggle put the populace in a daze Trappings and temptations of excess White American dreams dressed up in wealth; deceived again With the outside world set ablaze Riches by their votes, pointing fingers and blame They know it’s a mess they can’t see through Really they’re afraid to know what they should do Quote-unquote success, what’s it mean to you When no one gets a chance, or two? Baffled by the incapacities In your old apartment, your whole life in totality With the outside world set ablaze Struggle put the populace in a daze They know it’s a mess But they’re in love with it Hoarding resources for generations Pay to stifle change And prolong suffering They know it’s a game of global consequence
4.
A last line of defense you’d employed Kept at distance through joy How should I have known? Your spirit and your laugh can’t be broken Love and devotion for all this time And yet a hole in your heart never fused up Like you could go again and leave my side You’d have your reason And if I had only known what you needed I’d say without a doubt We’ll never break Laying in bed and it’s three in the morning Talking and pouring what’s inside out We’ll forget time forget all obligation Closed eyes are making us fill the room I’ll ask out loud if you feel what I’m feeling Say “if you close your eyes, do you feel small, do you lose your body?” And when all time and all space are forgotten And our voices fill the dark Then we know We’ll never break
5.
Worried 01:55
Worried again without our friends We’re pacing all the time Thoughts racing in your mind And as it sets in this is just the beginning Have to isolate The time it gets away from us And our friends getting older everyday But trust it ends with a chance to get away And stop worrying all the time When we get the chance to speak our love Out in the rain under lights and leaf chains We stand before our crowd Love we say it loud And tears leave our eyes in a cathartic cry We never said so much But always had the love in us And our friends getting older everyday But trust it ends with a chance to get away And stop worrying all the time When we get the chance to speak our love
6.
Way Up 03:37
Five miles high up in the sky With nothing by air to maintain flight We’ve been away through all this news But I’m never worried here with you And still they’re hiding from the truth But even they will feel it soon We’re ordered by class, “the only way” The markets decide how we behave And up in the front, their only fear Is for us to take a piece of theirs So they’ll keep burying the truth But even they will feel it soon Way up Way up Anyone can deny while they’re the one in flight Way up We’ve been away for way too long Hold on to hope, but know we’re wrong Cause even though all we heard was nigh Explosions occurred the death toll’s high If I die now, it would be alright If we die here, it would be alright If only we know that some survive Then we could die now, it would be alright
7.
Move On 02:59
Sun’s going down, orange glare, buildings downtown And the fireworks rang out Roaring long after they glow Heavy is the air Gives us goosebumps as we stare And the kids on down the street Sending orbs into the breeze Move on Two worlds that don’t break stride Even when they’re all undone Put in juxtaposition Waiting to disagree Take the provincial for a ride Show them things they can’t deny Demonstrate to undo lies Move on West on Osage Street We won’t forget atrocity Yet the people still online To complain about the noise Move on In the end, they’ll be history’s only friend Long forgotten in the wake Of reform rebuild retake Move on Two worlds that don’t break stride Even when they’re all undone Put in juxtaposition Waiting to disagree Take the provincial for a ride Show them things they can’t deny Demonstrate to undo lies Move on Move on…
8.
Let’s feel the breeze I want to go out tonight Everything happened like a shot It was halfway round the world for a time Can feel your unease Now you’re staying home tonight Blame it on something or someone But don’t say you don’t understand But when you’re backwards A little behind You couldn’t be wrong So buy your defense A slate and shale miracle Keep it locked safe Put away Cause you don’t have faith anymore Learn to think for yourself Cause no one else matters more Isn’t it ironic we’d evolve to behave like this Now we’ll be our own end But when you’re backwards A little behind You couldn’t be wrong Backwards A little behind You couldn’t be wrong But when you’re backwards A little behind You couldn’t be wrong Backwards A little behind You couldn’t be wrong
9.
No one said it would be ugly in the end We fear the color of the sky again Pinks and blues and greens They blend and morph and spread The color of the sky is red Ice falling down Melts and drowns Bare ground Calves with a power Gone in hours A sight to see The product of our consumption No one said it would be ugly in the end We fear the water stinging back again Pinks and violets A bloom that floats and swims We fear the water stinging back again Luminescent gel Bid farewell Their cells Siphons like it warm Algae swarm To feed them all The water stinging back again
10.
Out under darkness Shooting stars In the middle of the nowhere Everything we could want Where the living comes easy By the water it’s breezy Always Uh huh Nearly surrounded 8-foot fence With a Perseid backdrop Lost with intent Walk cause we want to It’s a test of will – we knew Come what may Fields and the labyrinth Lose our troubles in it Fields and the labyrinth Find our way again We’ll never be lonely With our friends and our own maize Always Uh huh Fields and the labyrinth Lose our troubles in it Fields and the labyrinth Find our way again We’ll never be lonely With our friends and our own maize Always Uh huh
11.
In the little house we built With the tile stickers peeling And the plant hooks in the ceiling Wondering how we’d ever need more Now we know the questions But the answers do evade us Like a serpent they betrayed us Wondering how we’d ever score more We worked ourselves up to the point where we broke Basking in the sepia As the rays shine on the table How I know that we are able Four worlds make the most of this one So we take it day by day Much too fickle to foresee it To adapt we speak and breathe in And the little things mean more than we knew We put the work in to the point where we know It’s been a long and restive summer I wish it were because of the heat And you got me feeling like a bummer Sitting at the edge of my seat You broke down crying at the table I never meant to steer us this way I’m feeling broke And I wonder how we’ll go to sleep How could we let it get to this with all our days? How could I stifle all your growth? How could we end up here - the agony displays? We’ll have to work like twice as hard We broke it down We’ve broken down The truth weighs heavy on And I wonder how we’ll go to sleep It’s been a long and restive summer I wish it were because of the heat And you got me feeling like a bummer Sitting at the edge of my seat You broke down crying at the table I never meant to steer us this way I’m feeling broke And I wonder how we’ll go to sleep

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released April 21, 2023

Music written by Daniel Forrest, Danielle Farley, Brian Thomas & David Dean on all songs except tracks 2 and 11, written by Daniel Forrest, Tim McMonigle, and Andrew Silverman.

Lyrics written by Daniel Forrest.

Daniel Forrest: vox, guitar, synthesizer
Danielle Farley: guitars on tracks 1, 3, 5-8, 10, vox on track 6
Brian Thomas: bass on all tracks except 2, 11
David Dean: drums on all tracks except 2, 11
Andrew Silverman: bass on tracks 2, 11
Tim McMonigle: drums on tracks 2, 11
Al Menne: vox on tracks 1, 4, 11

Recorded Summer 2021 by Sean Reilly at Studio North in Philadelphia, PA and Daniel Forrest at home and the Farley's Poconos House
Mixed and Mastered by Scoops Dardaris
Album art by Lauren Tsipori

I am so grateful of everyone listed above plus Connor Murray, Dana Kluchinski, Natalie Glubb, and Lindsay Partin for their incredible talent, creativity, time, thought, and tangible contributions to this recording project. Love and miss you all!

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