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Amber DeLaRosa - America (live recording)

from By Your Side (In Solidarity With Black Lives) by By Your Side

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Land of the free?
It cost at most, a few casinos.
Basking in naivety.
Ignorance is bliss in a place like this,
Where the geography decides who we can be, this American dream.

"In God's name we trust" on our objects of lust,
The gold we sold our souls for.
Hands to our chest, "In God's name" we bless this mess we call America.

Surely we're indivisible? NO.
Blinded by the white stripes of the flag
We keep in hand, to divide the land.
Deem the superior race, pale face, to delegate
What was never ours in the first place.

"In God's name we trust" on our objects of lust,
The gold we sold our souls for.
Hands to our chest, "In God's name" we bless this mess we call America.

What we proclaim doesn't mean that we'll change
Doesn't mean that we'll stray from the same old way we were.
Innocent arrested 'til assimilated they've confessed it;
This is our destiny manifested.
Undereducated, Over medicated, Sedated society.
we've become proud of how we're immune to our consciences now.

"In God's name we trust" on our objects of lust,
The gold we sold our souls for.
Hands to our chest, "In God's name" we bless this mess we call America.

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from By Your Side (In Solidarity With Black Lives), released June 5, 2020

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We're a diverse group of over 20 musicians in Sacramento who joined forces to raise money in support of our black community in this time of grieving of and uprising.

100 percent of the proceeds from this release have gone to Norcal Resist's Activist Bail fund and on the ground community organizers including Decarcerate Sacramento. Decarcerate Sac will receive all funds moving forward. ... more

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