The third single from the album From a Beautiful Place in the Middle of Nowhere by Outside the Deerfence which can be found on Spotify, Apple Music or any other streaming site. It's a killer album.

From a Beautiful Place in the Middle of Nowhere

Backwoods

Breakthrough

I don’t wanna miss out.
I don’t wanna give in.
I’ve almost figured it out,
Just gotta reel it back in
And see it through to the end.

Once again I fall out,
Sent back to the begin.
A maze through sticky self doubt,
A game that I’ll never win.

Try to break through
Try to break me

Start with hammer and stone,
Chisel and Time.
Persist in being alone
While I chisel my mind.
Pieces falling away.
And to my surprise,
what’s left on display but a lifetime of lies!

Try to break through
Try to break me

Dusting old bones, retracing steps to the refuges of my past.
The color of bone, shine the light on the shadows to make it last.
Hammer to stone, shards fly off the vestiges of my masks.
No one’s alone. We’ve all got pieces to heal, no need to ask.
It’s not written in stone. Shine the light on the shadows to make it last 
today and all through the night.
Make it last today and through the night!

Breakthrough

Boomerang
V
There’s so many ways, so many ways I was taught to cheat myself today.
There’s so many ways,so many ways we find to keep ourselves tucked away 

Chorus

They’re coming back like a boomerang
Thrown around and around again

V2

There’s so many ways, so may ways you've gotten beaten down today
Some will rise, some will run and fall and break to pieces 

Chorus

I'm coming back like a boomerang
Throw it around and around again
Coming back like a boomerang
I’m learning to throw more accurately 

you never said I ought to do what I most lived and loved to do
I just did it anyway
So I’ve unlearned what you taught me to and taken the road you said 
was closed the pathway paved by my soul

V
When you go off the rails, I hope I can demonstrate more loving ways to be.
In so many ways
I’m on my way
Summon the best I’ve got and roll in nails today

Oh god so wrong,  So wrong, so wrong, So wrong, so wrong. No right, no 
wrong

V
There’s so many ways, so many ways I’ve found to help myself today.
Summon the rest… from the worst to the best I’ve got to hear what they all say.

Chorus

Civil War

Boomerang

Ah, to be young and in love with someone who doesn't know it...

Lyrics:

Unrequited 2 year crush. Kept it quiet and under the covers. Hush hush.
Everyday in every way, I just pretend I wanna be just friends but it’s killing me.
Hang our backpacks onto the wall and if I timed it just right our arms might touch and my face would blush.

I never felt this way
So shy and Oh so lame

Bring your face to mine through my pillow
where we belong...

Got invited into her scene. Never would have happened if she thought me thoughts could be called obscene.
Had a plan, I’d ask her to dance. Never planned that instead of an answer she’d run from me.

I never felt this way
So shy and so ashamed

Bring your face to mine, through my pillow
 Offer love divine, sun gold yellow,
I’ve waited oh so long to be your fellow
How long can this go on? My pathetic dream!

Holdin’, whithholdin’, I’m not foldin’, while I’m smolderin’ you’re burnin’ me up.
Wantin’ to tell ya what I can’t tell ya, If you were to know, I know you’d burn me up!
You’d burn me up
You’d burn me up
You’d burn me up! 
My pathetic dream

Unrequited 2 year crush
Kept it quiet and under the covers 
Hush Hush.

The Crush

Remember 

Fool me once, fool me twice.
Fuel for war, fatal ties.

I remember when we were led astray.
I remember when she said, “Go the other way.”

Surrender all your rights
Surrender.
I’ll never.

Remember, remember, remember.
I remember when she said, “Go the other way”

Surrender all your rights.
Surrender,
I’ll never.

“The United States has intervened with military forces 12 times in Latin America in this century. Many of these invasions were led by Brigadier General Smedley Butler. In his memoirs 1933 he says, 

	I helped make Mexico safe for American oil interests. I helped make Haiti and Cuba a decent place for the National City Bank boys to collect revenue in. I helped pacify Nicaragua for the  International House of banking House of Brown Brothers. I brought life to the Dominican Republic for American sugar interests. I helped make Honduras right for American food companies.”



Footnotes 

“I remember when she* said…”
She is (but is not excluded to)
* Emma Goldman, Helen Keller, Harriet Tubman, Frida Kahlo, Eleanor Roosevelt, Marilyn Waring, Alice Walker, Naomi Klein, Ani Di Franco, Nina Simone, Rachel Carson, Angela Davis, Wilma Mankiller, Barbara Lee, Nina Turner, Abby Martin, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Tulsi Gabbard,

“…we were led astray…” 
by our foreign policy in Latin America…when in the name of Democracy and Freedom the United States sponsored and supported brutal authoritarian regimes. Here are some examples (Courtesy of Wikipedia):

1954 After the democratic election of left-leaning Jacobo Arbenz, Arbenz was overthrown during the US-backed Guatemalan coup d'état leading to right-wing US-endorsed authoritarian governments and nearly 40 years of civil war in the Central American country.

1964 Brazil experienced several decades of right-wing authoritarian governments, especially after the US-backed 1964 Brazilian coup d'état against center-left social democrat João Goulart promoted, according to then President John F. Kennedy, to "prevent Brazil from becoming another Cuba".

1973 Chile After the democratic election of President Salvador Allende in 1970, an economic war ordered by President Richard Nixon, among other things, caused the 1973 Chilean coup d'état with the involvement of the CIA due to Allende’s democratic socialist leanings. What follows was the decades-long US-backed military dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet.

1976 In Argentina, right-wing forces overthrew the democratically elected President Isabel Perón in the 1976 Argentine coup d'état, starting the military dictatorship of General Jorge Rafael Videla, known as National Reorganization Process, resulting with around 30,000 victims becoming missing. Both the coup and the following authoritarian regime was eagerly endorsed and supported by the United States government[1] with US Secretary of State Henry Kissinger paying several official visits to Argentina during the dictatorship.[2][3] 

El Salvador  After several peasant and workers uprisings in the country against the oligarchic and anti-democratic governments, often under the control of powerful American companies' interests like the United Fruit Company, with the appearance of figures like Farabundo Martí who lead these social revolts and were violently crushed, efforts to take the power democratically were often thwarted by US intervention. 

Nicaragua  After the Sandinista Revolution that overthrew pro-American dictator Anastasio Somoza Debayle, Nicaragua faced the USA sponsored rebel far-right Contra guerrilla.  After the return of the democracy, right-wing forces were dominant in the country, with Nicaragua having three consecutive governments of the Liberals. As in other Central American countries these governments endorsed neoliberal economic policies with a quick increase in poverty, inequality and income gap.

Remember

Medicine
V1

Well I’m a wreck from all this medicine
I better check, check myself back in again
and lay it down, just gotta lay it down
Before I wreck from all this medicine
I gotta check check check ch check check check myself back in again
and lay it down 
I’s gotta lay it down
Chorus
Before it rains
Take back my name
Let me see your face, your true face.

V2
These altered states that my head gets in
they spin me round round round and around til I forget where the center is
And now I’m goin down
But I’m off the ground 

Chorus
Til I’m insane
Callin out your name
Callin out for grace
Callin’ out!
V3
Well I’m a wreck from all this medicine
I gotta check check check ch check check check myself back in again
and lay it down, just gotta lay it down

Chorus
Before it rains
Takin back my name
Let me see your face, your true face.

And then I’m sane
Callin out your name
Callin out for grace
Takin back my name
Take it back!

Medicine

"The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo (Tratado de Guadalupe Hidalgo in Spanish), officially titled the Treaty of Peace, Friendship, Limits and Settlement between the United States of America and the Mexican Republic,[1] is the peace treaty signed on February 2, 1848, in the Villa de Guadalupe Hidalgo (now a neighborhood of Mexico City) between the United States and Mexico that ended the Mexican–American War (1846–1848). The treaty came into force on July 4, 1848.[2]

With the defeat of its army and the fall of its capital, Mexico entered into negotiations to end the war. The treaty called for the United States to pay $15 million USD to Mexico and to pay off the claims of American citizens against Mexico up to $5 million USD. It gave the United States the Rio Grande as a boundary for Texas, and gave the U.S. ownership of California and a large area comprising roughly half of New Mexico, most of Arizona, Nevada, and Utah and Colorado. Mexicans in those annexed areas had the choice of relocating to within Mexico's new boundaries or receiving American citizenship with full civil rights.

The U.S. Senate advised and consented to ratification of the treaty by a vote of 38–14. The opponents of this treaty were led by the Whigs, who had opposed the war and rejected manifest destiny in general, and rejected this expansion in particular. The amount of land gained by the United States from Mexico was further increased as a result of the Gadsden Purchase of 1853, which ceded parts of present-day southern Arizona and New Mexico to the United States." Wikipedia

As We Please

This is for white people to reckon with. There should never have been the pointless killing of innocent black men, women and children in America. It is our duty to organize and protest with our black brothers and sisters. They have suffered the brutal oppression of the white mother culture for centuries. It is time to stop. To listen. To care enough to follow their lead, do the work and reform.

I wrote this song over 20 years ago. Tragically, it's just as relevant today.

Another Open Letter

In memorium of the great and powerful Fred Hampton who was targeted  and assassinated by Herbert Hoover and the COINTELPRO of the FBI in league with Chicago's pigs, December 4, 1969.

The Assassination Of Fred Hampton

Corrupt oligarchs need to be put in their place.
Rock for the revolution!

Assume the Position

We love to improvise, play, rock, write, perform, record, repeat.

Outside the Deer Fence

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