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Faith (Kicking Gravity)

from The Napoleon of Crime by The Napoleon of Crime

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It used to be that to discover weird, unsung bands like American Music Club or Scott Walker or Game Theory, you had to live in a big and happening enough place that the 0.001% of the population who cared about such things would constitute a market big enough for someone to actually make it available. Now, you can live in a cabin in Wyoming, and with a little research, you can have the coolest, strangest stuff in the world shipped right to your door. This, in turn, means anyone anywhere has the capacity to become an expert, to expand their tastes beyond what's right in front of them. I find this terribly liberating, so I wrote a song about how neat it is that you can steal music on the internet.

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I believe
this sound will rise again
I believe
sometimes the damn thing hides
and it's a grim state of affairs
nobody really seems to care
but now there's a moment of beauty
humming over the telephone lines

coat a man in feathers
and he'd fly just as soon as he'd walk down the street
cut the ropes and tethers
like he fought side to side soon he'll kick gravity
and he'll take the measure
of each sound or picture that he happens to meet
all these things I believe

here we see
an audience spread thin
I believe
that makes it worldwide
someone in every town
makes a global underground
waiting in the corners of states and
looking for something to catch their eyes

coat a man in feathers
and he'd fly just as soon as he'd walk down the street
cut the ropes and tethers
like he fought side to side soon he'll kick gravity
and he'll take the measure
of each sound or picture that he happens to meet
all these things I believe

we've got fire in our lungs
we write smoke signals with the tips of our tongues
someone will see them someday
oh, you gotta have faith

coat a man in feathers
and he'd fly just as soon as he'd walk down the street
cut the ropes and tethers
like he fought side to side soon he'll kick gravity
and he'll take the measure
of each sound or picture that he happens to meet
all these things I believe

all these things I believe

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from The Napoleon of Crime, released September 16, 2012
written by David Gassmann

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