Rope (just give us enough)

by The Caliopians

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This song is absolutely a throw back to the music I grew up with, more in content, than musical context. The song is a mixture of message song, with a bit of wit. The sound is pure The Caliopian, so like all of our music,, it's a mix of retro and everything we have listened to over the years.

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Just give us enough rope
We’ll hang ourselves yet
The plotting and the plans, for the time on our hands
Go unspent

Don’t think the problems solved
No one fixed them while we slept
Just throw away your blues, and step into the noose
No regrets

Try not to mumble, fumble or stumble
While speaking your last words
Thank your mama and papa, praise Jesus and Allah
As we get what we deserve

We could have done our bit
Should have done our part
Helped shape the dimension, at least paid attention
Been smart

Quit your lying and crying about dying
As we snap to the last truth
So till the rope plays out at last
You might as well cut loose

We can all hang together in fair or foul weather
Or surely we will hang apart
Hang your separate ways on separate days
In a prison or they may hang you in the park
Be hung for a thief or a rebel a priest
The will hang you all the same
As a martyr, a villain, no ones a civilian
Just a rose by another name

Just give us enough rope
Keep the blindfold on
Be glad that your not, just being shot
So long

credits

released March 17, 2021
Written and arranged by by Jesse and Connie Walkershaw
All rights reserved by The Laryngitis Label

Sax Connie Walkershaw
Percussion Joe Chavez
Drums Rick Kennan
Guitar Andy Charmatz
Bass Jesse Walkershaw

The basic recording was engineered and facilitated by by Steve Heithecker and his wonderful students at Pyramind Studios and production school, in San Francisco CA,
Additional tracking done at Casa Walkershaw, and Chez Charmatz, San Francisco CA
Mixed and Mastered by Jez Burns, Leicester UK

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Cali, as we are a California band, full of the sounds of the southern desert, the coastal surf towns, Bakersfield twang,and the inner city we live in. Opians, cause we have a big place in our hearts and heads for Ethiopian jazz, and Afro Cuban diaspora sounds. A big slice of Klezmer, and what ever else falls into our listening life. ... more

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