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When the bombs fall, when the airstrikes get closer
When the world stalls and the state pulls your choker
When the chaos of the normal gets replaced with a new kind of terrible
Where will you go?
Where will you get food and water?
How will you survive?
When you leave home and you head towards the cities
When uneven development leaves you with no good options
Global den of thieves
When the aid worker pulls you to shore
‘Cause the raft sinks from overcrowding
Where will you go?
Where will you get food and water?
How will you survive?
When you’re kicked out, when your family says “fuck it”
When the shelter is scary
But your safety compared to a roof in the winter is a drop in the bucket
When no one will co-sign your lease
‘Cause you don’t have an income
‘Cause you don’t have a place to sleep
Where will you go?
Where will you get food and water?
How will you survive?
When the flood comes, when the coasts are submerged
When emergency relief agencies collapse
When there’s no more cots
No more wood to burn
When it’s all too much for existing structures to contain
Where will we go?
Where will we get food and water?
How will we survive?

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from Fame Swoll, released October 6, 2017
The transition clip is an excerpt from a talk given by the great historian Robin Kelley at the Hall Center for the Humanities at the University of Kansas in 2016.

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It's political music, whatever. Based in Boston, MA. Absolutely willing to drive very far to play for you and five of your vaguely alternative friends in your combination kitchen/laundry room. Hit me up. I'm fully serious.

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