White Jesus Sacrifice

from Brother Earth III by Brother Earth

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Arthur arrives in the New World. There, he immediately meets Cortez, who has conjured a strange sort of Christianity, mixing Aztec Sacrifice with the need for a Christ Figure. Arthur is to be burned. Arthur sees a vision right before falling into the volcano. He pushes Cortez's son, Luis into the pyre, and escapes with his life. He returns upon the second nightfall and frees his men. They begin the long journey through the jungle.

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(Now you know what it so means to be alive
raised for the blood that's beating in your heart
Now you know what it so means to rip apart
raised for the bees a beating in your hive)

They gonna take your life in a memory train
Plant dey crops in the fields of your spiritual plane
You nod to some animal standing in the rain
Burn down yr houses these eyes without a brain
Lead you down to the water on a blistering sky
As the sun starts shinin in the middle of the night
They gonna break your body in a tenement fire
Gong gong baby as the flames get higher
And watch as the spirits come to claim your light
Dropped in the fire from a dizzying height

Hey Ho! Shackle De Shame
Dyin to a god that don't have no name
Hey Ho! Chuggedy Joe
Him go up da cricka is a bad no no

Hey Ho! Shackle De Shame
Dyin to a god that don't have no name
Hey Ho! Chuggedy Joe
Him go up da cricka is a bad no no

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from Brother Earth III, released June 1, 2012

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Brother Earth

Brother Earth is vocalist Steve Five and instrumentalist Todd Tobias. Todd is also a solo artist on Hidden Shoal Recordings, and a member of the band Circus Devils (with Robert Pollard of Guided by Voices and brother Tim Tobias). Steve is also the front man of the Brooklyn New York-based power pop band "The Library is On Fire," also found here on bandcamp. Brother Earth began recording in 2008. ... more

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