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ENTIRE INBOX: Batch 394

Lost bullets find their way to little hearts 
big dreams of classes and all their parts
Shots fired, little lungs run out of air 
they’ll be good if they survive, they swear 
Their school bleeds from all corners
each week they welcome new mourners
Stray bullets, shots fired, the war on drugs 
little dreamers between cops and thugs
Corpses that never got to grow full size
Too much pigment for politicians to empathize 
Their education lost to the drug trade 
Their lives lost to bullets that strayed
Battles on the news between vain fixes
Ignored by those worshiping crucifixes

The day life stopped in the shanty town
days, weeks, months, it comes back around
Build walls here to keep them out
little girls sold there to the local talent scout
The bricks are designed to keep you in
Freedom up to the choice of your guillotine 
Those bellow gave up hope long ago
Those above maintain the status quo

This year he had single digit geography lessons
But he can name tons of vicious weapons
Conditioned to find life a normality 
with the constant threat of senseless brutality
born to brown parents with empty pockets
1% indifferent as living-cost skyrockets
Legal pharmaceuticals profiting from the sick
Those trying to decriminalize seen as lunatics
Exclusion begins with a lack of arithmetic
Inclusion is stalled by insidious politics
They stare at the same sky but their roofs are different
Watch them die on a new t.v., their suffering insignificant
Favelas periodically suffer a disease outbreak
Not enough think about which side to take

The day life stopped in the shanty town
days, weeks, months, it comes back around
Build walls here to keep them out
little girls sold there to the local talent scout
The bricks are designed to keep you in
Freedom up to the choice of your guillotine 
Those bellow gave up hope long ago
Those above maintain the status quo

Deferred Hope

I wrote this song thinking about things I wish I could forget. With all my music, I want to capture a feeling and create a little universe.

lyric video: https://youtu.be/X80KAShPLYg

littleuniverses

Those Things

ALTAR

Don't Panic

from propeller (inner workings), released December 4, 2020 
https://hungersleeprecords.bandcamp.com/album/propeller-inner-workings

An unplugged version of The Cage from GRICE'S album Propeller featuring the late (magnificent) Raphael Ravenscroft on sax.  

The album cover and track artwork images are also early incarnations of the Propeller CD artwork. (original artwork courtesy of British artist Elizabeth McAlpine)

GRICE: lead vocals, electric guitar, horn arrangements. 
Raphael Ravenscroft: saxophone. 
Joe Breban: drums 
Jerri Hart: trumpet 
Ondrej Pochyly: acoustic and electric violin 

Album cover images originally from 'Quintet’ courtesy of Elizabeth McAlpine. 
Cover designs: GRICE 

Recorded at Sound Gallery Studios, UK 
Engineered by Duncan Chave & GRICE 
Mastered by Duncan Chave 
Composed, arranged and produced by GRICE 

www.gricemusic.co.uk 

© 2020 GRICE 
℗ 2020 Hungersleep Records

Propeller (inner workings)

The Cage (Bird Cage mix)

"Little Alien" by Butterjunk - Track 1 on the 'Normalised EP'
Release Date: 25 January 2021

Facebook: bit.ly/FB-Butterjunk
Spotify: bit.ly/Butterjunk-Spotify

Little Alien

Butterjunk - Little Alien

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Don't Panic

Audrey's Dance