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from the album "Frontera Dogs"
Gabriella Gutiérrez y Muhs & Eric Muhs
December 2019

lyrics

If I Told You

You will never thank me
I will not be thanked
I will imitate your sincerity
and loyalty

You will never admit
to have learned from me
You finished your work
because you saw me confused in mine

I have many more privileges
that I did not see
You have many privileges
that you only saw
because of me
I will thank you and others
profusely
from now on
for the inspiration
Not easily found
Your loyalty
My loyalty
to your culture
to your family
to your work
to your friends
to your children

I became a better person
If I told you
the light of lamps
is not unhurt
you would believe me

and so did they
the migrants
that are now the cross
this government
drags on its back

Let me eviscerate the pain
Let me take the entrails of dolor
dolorosa
doloriendo
dolores
lola
walking to the border
droplets of her liquids
walking
running
hiding
with her droplets
of her blood
praying the rosary for others
the train was no relief
falling
and not falling
the train was no relief
Let me count the steps
to a hope
a hope turned destruction
where your child loses his mother

His identity
his country
his milk
his father
his brothers and sisters
his traditions
his culture
all at once
on the line
that is not a line
that was never a line
He also loses
his mind
in a horrid mess
of misunderstandings
Perhaps he loses his mind too
I f I told you
that the light of lamps is not unhurt
you would believe me.

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from Frontera Dogs, released December 21, 2019
Eric played echoplex electric guitars

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Eric Muhs Seattle, Washington

gigging musician since 1981 in Seattle's seminal "new wave" bands STUDENT NURSE & AUDIO LETER. Got into recording in late 80's in Santa Cruz with MATA RATA. Built homemade 4 track tape loop system for 200 + solo performances. Now live back in Seattle, where I make instruments & perform with Metal Men. I've got a modest solar-powered recording studio. More at www.invisiblemusicstudio.org ... more

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