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Those Who Cannot Be Drowned (Massachusetts)

from Get Ready For New England by Nuclear Spaceship

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Algonquin nation, tell us to our faces, what do you think of our big ships?
Got a nice place here, a nice home base here, to show our opposition to the Anglican church
There's fish in a barrel to shoot
Our seed has taken root

Smallpox and measles we know on our great virgin soil we sow
What must Irishmen do to be heard in this cesspool of the drunk and disturbed
What must colonial offspring do to survive the winter?
We've killed everybody who could have shown us the way

Storm of revolution comes to sweep the bay, deep virgin waters bleed tea of the taxed
Samuel Adams and a whole lot of Johns keep the fire burning and set out to sea
Puritanic wisdom guides us along the coastline
Throw them in the water, those who cannot be drowned

Mills and the railroads alive help the concrete and steelmen survive
And who told us we have to behave? just to rot in early unmarked graves
Puritanic wisdom guides us along the coastline
Have yourself an ice cream out here in Provincetown

What's going on in Boston?
Will Charlie ever get off the MTA?
Bill Buckner at the 86 series and how the damn ball went right between his legs

How about a round at a place where everyone seems to know your name?
We reminisce about the book they bound in skin of a certain Mr. Allen, first name James

Every street in Braintree is a stem upon a branch upon a tree-like central nervous system growing all the time
Every brain in Braintree, individual or collected, is a Golgi Apparatus in a cell inside a leaf upon this living tree that pulses rhythmically

You will never find the root, its shape is infinite
For life is cyclical, and you'll be stuck in Massachusetts

All the homes in Braintree are the cells inside the foliage that dot the city streets with people passing through them in a way that plant biology cannot quite explain
So a glimpse of Braintree can reveal what micro-organisms think about their lives as they consume and they migrate in the suburban tree of brains

Our collective consciousness is what all life will be
Our wisdom is so infinite it'll win a Peabody

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from Get Ready For New England, released May 31, 2017

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Nuclear Spaceship Maine, Maine

Fritz Derblansky: Acoustic & electric guitar, mandolin, banjo, sitar, shamisen, sax, trumpet

Josh Dominguez: Vocals, lyrics

Ringo Raskolnikov: Electric & acoustic bass, cello, violin, vocals, flute, tin whistle

Lucy LaFramp: acoustic & electric piano, organ, synthesizer, clavinet, accordion, vibraphone, melodica, kalimba

Charlie Barnaby: drums,percussion, harmonica, backup vocals
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