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I Will Not Go Quietly

from Spend Your Youth by John Shakespear

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I used to write songs about the sea
How it glimmers at night, so effortlessly
But none of that seems now to mean much to me
In a café on Mass Ave, I cried in my coffee

And I used to write songs about love
And I’m singing them still with the dark sky above
I used to hide behind irony
In a café on Mass Ave, I cried for my country

Oh, but I will not go quietly
I will cling to the roots of this dying tree
I will sing in the name of my family
I will sing any way I know how

All my heroes they sang in the gutter
In the low-lit cafés down on Bleecker, MacDougal
In the prisons at night, for the sake of each other
All my heroes they sang in the gutter

And they sang though the ship had no rudder
Though the captain had fled and the crew had disbanded
In a country entrusted to real motherfuckers
All my heroes they sang in the gutter

Oh, but I will not go quietly
I will cling to the roots of this dying tree
I will sing in the name of my family
I will sing any way I know how
You must sing any way you know how

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from Spend Your Youth, released May 10, 2019
John Shakespear - Vocals, Guitar, String Arrangement
Aparna Lakshmi - Vocals
John Helyar - Violin, String Arrangement
Nathaniel Taylor - Cello

Devon Dawson - Producer, Engineer, Mixing, Mastering, String Arrangement, Synthesizer, Percussion

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John Shakespear writes albums that tell a story from start to finish. The next one, 'Hail Bohemia,' comes out on May 17.

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