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Tightrope Blues

Some songs are more personal than others. 

This one began with me soloing on my guitar. For some reason, what I was playing registered with the same emotion I felt when I learned my dad was going to prison. So, I created a song around that soloing and story. 

But what I felt in relation to my own biography has been recreated millions of times across this country. After all, we don’t call it _mass_ incarceration for nothing. 

Song songs that are deeply personal turn out to be deeply collective as well. 

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Notes
Made in Ableton Live 11.

Much thanks to Andrew Fraser for his comments on earlier versions of this song.

Artwork by El Sanadaji [ElSanandaji.com; @FullTonalRag]
Mixed by Marc Felish, Dominion Mastering [https://www.dominionmastering.com/]
Produced by Autonomous Cultural Productions


Tags: mass incarceration, private prisons, prison abolition, federal prison, USP Atlanta, drug war, people not prisons, criminal justice reform, mandatory minimum, drug sentencing, war on drugs, drug policy reform, end the war on drugs, end the drug war, sentencing reform

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Only For Love

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DON'T BE ACTIN' LIKE A FOOL HEART

FEELIN' HIGH ALL THE TIME HAD MADE ME LAZY
NEVER KNEW WITHOUT YOU WOULD DRIVE ME SO CRAZY
BUT I'VE BEEN WORKIN' IT OUT FOR MYSELF
I PUT THE MEM'RIES ON THE DUSTIEST SHELF I COULD FIND
AND NOW I LECTURE MY HEART, EVERY TIME YOU CROSS MY MIND--

          "DON'T BE ACTIN' LIKE A FOOL HEART
          YOU KNOW THAT LIFE CAN BE SO CRUEL HEART
          DON'T BE ACTIN' LIKE A FOOL HEART
          AND DON'T BE FOOLIN' WITH LOVE."

WELL YOUR CALL GOT ME ALL UPSET AGAIN
YOU SPEND A DIME AND NOW I'M TO LOSE MY HEAD AGAIN
IT DOESN'T MATTER AS A MATTER OF FACT
THIS EX-GAMBLER'S STAYIN' AWAY FROM THE TRACK OF LOVE
AND WHEN MY HEART CRIES OUT, I CAN'T TELL IT ENOUGH--

          "DON'T BE ACTIN' LIKE A FOOL HEART
          YOU KNOW THAT LIFE CAN BE SO CRUEL HEART
          DON'T BE ACTIN' LIKE A FOOL HEART
          AND DON'T BE FOOLIN' WITH LOVE."

                    WITH EVERY HEART THAT'S A TINDERBOX
                    EVERY SPARK BRINGS AN EXPLOSION
                    BUT IF I KEEP THE FIRE AWAY
                    MAYBE THEN I'LL BE O.K .  .  .  

          SO, DON'T BE ACTIN' LIKE A FOOL HEART
          YOU KNOW THAT LIFE CAN BE SO CRUEL HEART
          DON'T BE ACTIN' LIKE A FOOL HEART
          AND DON'T BE FOOLIN' WITH LOVE."

"AT LEAST FOR AWHILE --
I WON'T BE FOOLIN' WITH LOVE
I NEED SOME TIME
SO DON'T BE FOOLIN' WITH LOVE
ARE YOU LISTENIN' TO ME HEART?
DON'T BE FOOLIN' WITH LOVE."

WORDS AND MUSIC BY BOBBY BLUME C 1983

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