Name: Rations
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Rations

by John Shakespear

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All proceeds will be split evenly between People's Plaza Tennessee and the Nashville Bail Fund. Look them up, follow them, support however you can.

lyrics

with a metric ton of honey
and a hundred bags of tea
and the orchids by the window
leaning always toward the sea

with your father's record player
and the records that it plays
and the changes in the weather
make a record of our days

with our friends in california
and their faces on the screen
and the abject paranoia
that is cycling through our dreams

with the elemental confidence
of someone who's never seen
any real kind of pain before i sing

oooooooooh etc.

with the ambulances ringing
through the early days of spring
and the cherry trees exploding
like they haven't heard a thing

with the memory of the morning
when we drove out to the lake
you and me and all your cousins too
it was green and blue and green and blue

with the elemental confidence
we learned in a hollywood dream
and a creeping since of emptiness we sing

oooooooooh etc.

with our friends and with our lovers
with the neighbors down the street
with the people that we used to know
and the ones we've yet to meet

with the birds up on the rooftops
and the last remaining bees
and the animals we've chased so long
who are finally running free

with the elemental confidence
of every breathing thing
and a voice that will not sputter out
we sing

credits

released July 31, 2020
Mixed by Jonathann Rice at BullEagle Music in Nashville, TN

John Shakespear: Guitar, vocals, synthesizers, drum machine, production
Rita Pfeiffer: Violin arrangement, violin, vocals
Hannah Dorfman: Vocals

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John Shakespear Brooklyn, New York

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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