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The Sound of Our Own Decay

by De La Hoya

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1.
Union Square 03:08
I wandered through the maze of Montreal’s forgotten days just trying to shake the news Crumbling pavilions of the Expo ‘67 couldn’t lift my sullen mood While back at home the city sirens blared And the country showed us just how much they cared Their signs read “We Are All NY” Meanwhile they beat the drums for war If they were all NY, they wouldn’t be so brash No, they wouldn’t beg for blood and hang us from their flagpoles They’d be in Union Square, needing answers, asking questions They’d feel it in the air and they wouldn’t want this vengeance Don’t tell me we’re the same On the border crossing home the driver warned that the patrol would pick us all apart Before they checked my bag, I unpinned the upside-down flag to slip past their radar And I whispered quietly to myself, “This is how it starts” So tap my phones and read my mail and say, “It’s just in case” So point a gun at my head and say it makes me safe The granite stairs of Union Square flowed over with despair The vigils and the rants, the prayers and patriotic chants But not a soul called out for war We didn’t want this war If you were all NY, you wouldn’t be such assholes You wouldn’t beg for blood and hang us from your flagpoles You’d be in Union Square, needing answers, asking questions You’d feel it in the air that we won’t stand for this vengeance We didn’t ask for war We didn’t want a war We didn’t want a war, we didn’t want this vengeance We didn’t want a war, we didn’t want this bloodshed Not in our fucking name
2.
She’s getting the itch, yeah she’s ready to go She’s plotting a big escape She’s rounding up friends and they’re hitting the road and they’ll drive and drive for days But she knows it’s getting warmer every day And she knows the skies get darker every day He’s got a new job and he makes a good wage He’s driving an SUV He’s getting a three bedroom home for himself And a new flatscreen TV But he knows the seas are rising, rising He knows the ice is melting, the fields have all been paved But he still keeps buying, buying buying It’s how he was brought up, so this is how he stays The West has screwed us all with entitlement If we’re so damn evolved, how did we make this hell? We’re consuming ourselves I’m ready to explode, I want the open road But I don’t want, I don’t want the blame We cannot just survive, we want the good life But we don’t want, we don’t want the blame And we know it’s getting hotter every day Let’s hope our kids won’t feel too betrayed
3.
He kicks the stones and vaults his way into another hopeless game He’s taken notes, been awarded points but knows it all will end the same Into their eyes he stared and so they thought he was guilty “Do what you love, do what you like, but don’t do it for free” Our time was spent in expensive ways of the careless days gone by A memory’s now valued less than a 20-hour drive (Tonight) Into their eyes we stare and so they know we are guilty (We bleed) Do what you love, do what you like, but don’t do it for me It’s always haunted us (I swear, we said we did it ‘cause it’s fun but it goes too far) It’s always lurking in the night I feel it coming up (Is all I have to show for it is debt and the time I’ve lost?) I never had the control at any time We’re going out again, we’re going out again Obsessive freaking out Just one more time for this There’s always more room than the risk Standing in the dark, trying to light my way with it Always looking out, never quite on top of it I’m starting to believe, what they all say to me (Where do I go now? I think you have the answers) So sing that song again (It’s always haunted us, It’s always lurking in the night) I swear, we said we do it ‘cause it’s fun but then it goes too far (I feel it coming up, I never had the control at any time) I guess it’s just addiction and a half we live our lives in the dark In the dark
4.
We were the orphans of suburban slums Raised by retail clerks and food court bums Our parents were away under fluorescent suns to give us what they never had We were the children of the broken glass, where the parking lots yield to yellow grass We lodged our broomsticks in the pavement cracks and we flew our scarlet flags And we wrapped rebellion’s arms around our waists And we held our hearts out for the world to taste And injustice was meant for our hands to erase And you know we had a lot of work to do We are the siblings of an endless war, which our elders wage on distant shores We whined and kicked and screamed upon the kitchen floor and we threatened to run away We are the children of the hourglass, our ambitions fell like grains of sand We waited for the echoes of our protest chants so we could hear our own decay We sang through riot barricades And our voices bled, they bled onto the tape We can hear it when those records play And we know it’s the sound of our own decay It’s the sound of our decay And we pulled rebellion’s arms from round our waists And we hid our hearts to shield them from disgrace And injustice laughed aloud and rubbed it in our face So you know we’ve got a lot of work to do We’ve got a lot of work to do We are the children of the broken glass, we lived hard and fast We are the children of the hourglass and the time has passed This is the sound of our decay

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released March 5, 2021

Recorded, Mixed and Produced by Ali Hassan @ Tainted Blue Studios, Times Square, NYC, Summer 2008

Mastered by Bill Henderson @ Azimuth Mastering
Artwork and Layout by Ed Adams @ EdAdams.com

Line-up:
Aaron Scott: Vocals
Oscar Albis Rodriguez: Guitars, Piano, Vocals
Al Fair: Bass, Vocals
Gunnar Olsen: Drums, Vocals

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De La Hoya Brooklyn, New York

NYC Punk / Hardcore band. 1998 - 2002 and again briefly in 2008.

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