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Snake Oil

from The American by Bear and the Beasts

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

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One, two three. One, two, three. Dance with me,
in the daylight, in the sun.
Colors seem brighter, the atmosphere’s lighter
when you’re on my tongue.
Your dress floating free and my tie in the breeze
we’re a hopeless, hopeless cliché.
The world fades away to a rose colored shade
and I’m drifting, drifting away.

But when I fall, I fall so hard
and you’re just a phantom
with no regard…for me.

Four, five, six. Four, fives, six. The band,
continues to play.
Spinning in circles, I’m coming unfurled,
and I’m dissolving away.
My body removed and my soul coming loose
I’m a sheet, tossed in the breeze.
For a moment I’m blessed but I know what comes next,
and the earth is waiting for me.

When I fall, I fall so hard
and you’re just a hunter
with no regard…for peace.

Seven then eight. Or is it eight and then nine?
I’m now stumbling, stumbling through time.
Caught in a tailspin of regret and sin,
and you’re absent in my decline.
Piercing the clouds as I make my way down
it’s in darkness that I see truth.
Delusions of grandeur, the narcissist
Pandering the snake oil of you.

When I fall, I fall so hard
and you’re just a phantom
with no regard…
Oh but when I fall, I fall so hard
and when I hit the ground
it’s such a deafening sound.

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

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