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Morton's Pillory Plea
05:10
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Morton’s Pillory Plea
(©2021 Anders/O’Bitz)
I don’t know
How much they pay for what you do
Captain Standish
Would any promises sway you
I don’t care if you take down my maypole
I only care if you plan to let me go
I don’t dare question any of their faith
I don’t dare as they pillory me to waste
I don’t dare fight your princes of limbo
I don’t dare make this colony my foe
I don’t dare
Hell no I don’t dare
Let the sunshine
Brown my skin so fair
Hell no sunshine will not do
Turn my skin so dark
Like the heathens do
Yes I know our New Canaan feels so new
And I know these heathens have more truth
Yes I know
They’re more human than me or you
And I know
This undermines your truth
Yes I know our freedom threatens you
And I know God smiles on all that’s true
And I know this by smiles on every face
Men, women, heathen, Christian, every case.
Yes I know
Hell no I don’t dare
Let the sunshine
Brown my skin so fair
Hell no sunshine will not do
Turn my skin so dark
Like the heathens do
Hell no I don’t dare
Let the sunshine
Brown my skin so fair
Hell no sunshine will not do
Turn my skin so dark
Like the heathens do
Hell no … I don’t dare
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2. |
This Bird Don't Fly
05:52
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This Bird Don’t Fly
(©2021 Anders/O’Bitz)
What she wrote on hope
A pretty bird song and all
Perched and singing in all souls
For all time
Was this her storytime
Nothing too dark oh no
For this young old soul
It might seem so
Ooh ooh ooh
Ahh oh
This bird don’t fly
It’s perched just so
False hope
Sings eternal
If the bird don’t fly
If the wrong kind of hope
False songs
Ask much more
Ooh ooh ooh
Ahh oh
Wrote so much during warrin’ time
Hard to keep hope pure and at all alive
Without lyin’ so
And don’t forget all that genocide
And slavery at home
Some hope
Impure and low
Ooh ooh ooh
Ahh oh
Ooh ooh ooh
Ahh oh
This bird don’t fly
It’s perched just so
False hope
Sings eternal
This bird don’t fly
This bird don’t fly
This bird don’t fly
This bird don’t fly
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3. |
Lost At Sea
04:47
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Lost At Sea
(©2021 Anders/O’Bitz)
Too long
On this boat of mine
At sea
No voice
Other than my own to hear
Or heed
I’m not sure how to love
I’m not sure how to be
It’s been so long
I’m not sure how to love
I’m not sure how to be
Is this my home
Too far
From any shore tonight
To see
No choice
Other than my own decide
So free
I’m not sure how to love
I’m not sure how to be
Is this my home
I’m not sure how to love
I’m not sure I want to be
So free
So lost
So lost
At sea
So lost
So lost
At sea
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4. |
Tell It So
04:41
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Tell It So
(©2020 Anders/O'Bitz)
The hero of my story knows
Who is good and who’s bad just so
He just knows
And he knows
He just knows what his strength is for
He just knows who to use it for
Use it for
Who’s it for?
Oh just tell it now and go
Oh that’s not how it’s s’posed to go
Tell it so
Who he is and just how he knows
Based on a story that went just so
Went just so
Went just so
His story started to crumble so
From the bottom to top just so
Crumble so
Crumble so
Oh just tell it now and go
Oh that’s not how it’s s’posed to go
Tell it so
Is he who he is?
When the story’s not so
Our hero goes down
He’s no more
Oh just tell it now and go
Oh that’s not how it’s s’posed to go
Oh just tell it now and go
Oh that’s not how it’s s’posed to go
Tell it so
Tell it so
Tell it so
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5. |
Trapped In Me
04:27
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Trapped In Me
(©2021 Anders/O’Bitz)
I want to be
Where I can see
All them from above
Can they see me
And can they feel
What I hope’s my love
Who can I be
If they don’t feel
What I hope is my love
Who do they see
Who have they seen
Since this hiding’s won
Oh
Wait am I trapped in me
How long before they can see it all
All of this inside me
All of what’s hidden so I feel above
How long
Who do I see
Who does the seein’
When I look from above
If not from me
From whom do they feel
What I hope’s my love
Oh
Wait am I trapped in me
How long before I can free it all
All of this inside me
All of what’s hidden so I feel above
How long
How long this hiding’s won
How long it’s been the real me
How can I call this love
And how can they love what they can’t see
Wait am I trapped in me
How long before they can see it all
All of this inside me
All of what’s hidden so I feel above
Wait am I trapped in me
How long before I can free it all
From me
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6. |
Stuck Inside
04:37
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Stuck Inside
(©2020 Anders/O'Bitz)
Hear some lovers get it right
Hear some others walk
Hear some others say goodnight
Hear some others talk
I hear it all
My neighbors’ lives
Hear above they say goodbye
Hear below a call
Hear some others start to cry
Hear another fall
I hear it all
My neighbors’ lives
You know I want it all
But I’m stuck inside
I hear it all
My neighbors’ lives
You know I want it all
But I’m stuck inside
Can they tell I’m broken by
A whole life between these walls
Can they tell I want it back
All that time wasted gone
I can’t sing my story loud
I can’t sing it very long
I can barely hear my sound
Only hear their song
Only hear their song
No, no I can’t
Hear me at all
No, no I can’t
Hear me at all
Hear some lovers say goodbye
Hear some others talk
Hear some others say goodnight
Hear the other’s song
Hear the other’s song
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7. |
I'm Ceded
06:48
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I’m Ceded
(©2021 Anders/O’Bitz)
Baptized before
Without choice
Outside time
Before sin and grace
I was Their own
In more than name
As the water
Splashed my face
And why use up
Any water
No before sin
To wash away
And why before
Without choice
There’s only after sin
To counter grace
Yes I ran
Their senseless race
So slow at first
But I kept pace
Took everything I had
Increase my speed
Always someone
Who’d up the pace
Never let you
Forget Their stakes
The finish Their idea
Never seen
Called to my full
Existence
Called to define
My own sin and grace
Their pace no more
I have choice
So starts my time
And my own race
I’m ceded
I stopped long ago
Keeping up Their pace
I know
Don’t need it
I get so much further
Runnin’ my own race
I know
I’m ceded
Half conscious before
Without choice
Full consciousness
Freedom brings
And so I run
And I set my pace
One end in sight
It sets my stakes
These stakes they are of love
So freedom rings
I’m ceded
I stopped long ago
Keeping up Their pace
I know
Don’t need it
I get so much further
Runnin’ my own race
I know … Ah ahh ...
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8. |
A Closed-Eye Seer
04:24
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A Closed-Eye Seer
(©2021 Anders/O’Bitz)
She was a closed-eye seer
What binded her to that room
This binding it also freed her
As it became her tomb
How did she see beyond time
And see so much beyond that small room
Was all in her soul to find it
All it wants is truth
She was a closed-eye seer
Helped her see in you
Her limits unknown
She lived oceanic feelings
Or were they a sea of doom
The water a vast communion
A verdent and obscure womb
How did she see beyond time
And see so much beyond that small room
Was all in her soul to find it
All it wants is truth
She was a closed-eye seer
Helped her see in you
Her limits unknown
Her limits unknown
Her limits unknown
It sees and so she knows
Was all in her soul to find it
All it wants is truth
She was a closed-eye seer
Helped her see in you
Was all in her soul to find it
All it wants is truth
She was a closed-eye seer
Helped her see in you
Her limits unknown
Her limits unknown
Her limits unknown
(She sees inside me and you)
Her limits unknown
(She sees inside me and you)
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9. |
All From Inside
05:09
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All From Inside
(Anders, O’Bitz 2020)
I do want to see you
I know it’s about time
Been alone with no sister or brother
Been alone for some time
Alone and inside
Inside
You know I will stay inside
Of my place and of my mind
It’s okay I still see you
All from inside
All from inside
Did I ever see you
Ever really go outside
So alone with my mother and father
So alone all this time
Alone and inside
Inside
You know I will stay inside
Of my place and of my mind
It’s okay I still see you
All from inside
All from inside
All from inside
And, love, I see you fallin’
In love with these projections--mine
You know these projections
Are all from inside
All from inside
All from inside
Oh
You know I will stay inside
Of my place and of my mind
It’s okay I still see you
All from inside
You know I will stay inside
Of my place and of my mind
It’s okay I still see you
All from inside
All from inside
All from inside
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10. |
Holdin' Our Own
04:23
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Holdin’ Our Own
(Anders, O’Bitz 2020)
More than used to this setting
Much is changed when confined
This place didn’t seem so small
When just mine
Anyone could have said too much
Trying to fill so much time
How could any two hold up
And survive
Holdin’ our own
In our room for two
Was honesty blown
Caring too
Holdin’ our own
So singular with you
Honesty blown
Only saying the truth
Are we blaming the setting
So used to being confined
Weren’t we feelin’ restricted
In a bind
Our love can’t sustain so much
That way just isn’t our style
Weren’t you planning on leaving
For a while
Holdin’ our own
In our room for two
Was honesty blown
Caring too
Holdin’ our own
So singular with you
Honesty blown
Only saying the truth
You say you said it with love
But you couldn’t stay true
By our love
We both said way too much
Of what’s true
Holdin’ our own
In our room for two
Was honesty blown
Caring too
Holdin’ our own
So singular with you
Honesty blown
Only saying the truth
Holdin’ our own
I’m fearing what’s true
Both said way too much
Of what’s true
Holdin’ our own
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11. |
Small World Abide
04:55
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Small World Abide
(©2021 Anders/O’Bitz)
Oh no what have we done
Oh no we all know what comes
On no our fires breed bigger fires
And yet we light some more
Oh no are we having fun
Oh no so many dead from guns
On no our fights breed bigger fights
And yet we start more wars
Nowhere to hide
Nowhere to go
Small world abide
Oh no
On no can we let them cross
(Oh no)
Oh no won’t we feel a loss
(Oh no)
Oh no our walls breed bigger walls
And yet we build some more
Oh no are we all on the run
(Oh no)
Oh no can we escape what comes
(Oh no)
On no our lies breed bigger lies
And yet we tell some more
Nowhere to hide
Nowhere to go
Small world abide
Oh no
Oh no what have we done
(Oh no)
On no we all know what comes
(Oh no)
Oh no our fights breed bigger fires
And yet we start more wars
Nowhere to hide
(Oh no)
Nowhere to go
(Oh no)
Small world abide
Nowhere to hide
Small world abide
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Anders/O'Bitz California
Singer-songwriter Eric Anders (right) and guitarist-composer Mark O'Bitz (left) both hail from California. Eric and Mark have been working on music together since Eric's 2003 debut release, Not At One--like all of Eric's solo releases it was mostly Anders/O'Bitz. The guys started releasing music as a duo in 2018 with Of All These Things and have released at least an album every year after that. ... more
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