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City O City

from The American by Bear and the Beasts

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Recorded by Logan Muckler
Mixed by Chris Andrews
Mastered by Chris Keffer
Bear Redmon on guitar and vocals
Noah Zinter on guitar and vocals
Trent Farchone on bass
Jake Koplen on saxophone
Justin Peterson on trumpet
Chris DeWitt on drums

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Cash register. Sky scraper. Gold-guilded legislature.
Turn a blind eye to the suffering and keep the spotlight on the novelties.
I can’t breathe under the weight of the price to be a human being.

Oh my city, where did you go?
I have loved you, and you have gone.

There ain’t no gold in those mountains. There ain’t no gold in those streams.
The only gold you’re gonna find, is gonna break your crooked teeth.
The city’s a white-washed tomb—the blood’s running through her streets.
Oh her heart has long been removed. She’s an empty cavity.

Ki-ki-ki-kick the kids out to the curb onto the cold, black streets
While the red, white, and blue-blooded Americans build their aristocracy
How could so much go to so few and how did we ever get this far?
When did the “tired, hungry, poor” cry out “more, more, more!”

Oh my city, where did you go?
I have loved you, and you have gone.

There ain’t no gold in those mountains. There ain’t no gold in those streams.
The only gold you’re gonna find, is gonna break your crooked teeth.
The city’s a white-washed tomb—the blood’s running through her streets.
Oh her heart has long been removed. She’s an empty cavity.

The vines hang heavy.
The birds will sing.
The grapes of wrath.
The reckoning.

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from The American, released April 14, 2020
Recorded by Logan Muckler
Mixed by Chris Andrews
Mastered by Chris Keffer
Bear Redmon on guitar and vocals
Noah Zinter on guitar and vocals
Trent Farchone on bass
Jake Koplen on saxophone
Justin Peterson on trumpet
Chris DeWitt on drums

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