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Except for the Bomb

from Anger Management by Gerry Spehar

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Slow groove a la Crazy Horse; an ominous stream of consciousness ballad of a western landscape ravaged by nuclear missile infrastructure; turns into psychedelic rocker.

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EXCEPT FOR THE BOMB
Gerry Spehar

Somewhere in South Dakota
Underneath the Lakota
Minutemen hide in silos
Under a moonlight halo
And the sky wears stars slung low like pistols
To shoot the tops off missiles
Blowing them far and wide
To contaminate the fields and sky

Somewhere inside his grief
Somewhere outside belief
A medicine man dances with eagles
A white buffalo prances on starlit hooves
And the wind swings low and whistles
To shoot the tops off thistles
The blacktop is slick with rain
And the ambulance driver is sick with pain

And the night is calm, hungry for dawn
Except for the napalm leftover from Nam
The night is calm, except for the bomb

And a pile of metal and rubber
Going as fast as it can
Wears regret slung low and shudders
To arrival, to survival

And the night is calm, hungry for dawn
Except for the napalm leftover from Nam
Thirsting for the jungle
Except the bomb
The night is calm, except for the bomb

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from Anger Management, released February 19, 2018

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Gerry Spehar Los Angeles, California

Gerry Spehar is a folk country troubadour from Colorado and a man on a mission.  Hot on the heels of last year's critically acclaimed "I Hold Gravity” the singer songwriter guitar picker is back with a full blown old school protest album.  Think Woody Guthrie backed by psychedelic guitars and funky New Orleans horns ... more

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