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Union Square

from The Sound of Our Own Decay by De La Hoya

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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

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from The Sound of Our Own Decay, released March 5, 2021

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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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