Geoff Berner's HIGH GROUND from KLEZMER MONGRELSWealthy people like to live, live near the water
They pass their real estate down to their sons and their daughters.
Generations are happy just enjoying the view, but
When the water starts rising you know what they're gonna do
The rich are gonna move to the high ground
The rich are gonna move to the high ground
Holy doodle, look at your town
The rich are gonna move to the high ground
All those singers and actors and philanthropists
Say the poor are at the top of the priority list.
But when the levees start breaking and the barriers fall
Where will they be when we come to pay a courtesy call?
With their mistresses, wives, pets, children and all
At the top of a hill behind a fortified wall.
The rich are gonna move to the high ground
The rich are gonna move to the high ground
Holy doodle, look at your town
The rich are gonna move to the high ground
Every sad number that the scientists find
You get the feeling that some people really don't mind
To see a new feudal age for the whole human race
'Cos the rabble will finally be all back in their place.
They'll be no revolution, we'll be meek as wet mouses
Begging them to let our children serve in their houses.
The rich are gonna move to the high ground
The rich are gonna move to the high ground
Holy doodle, look at your town
The rich are gonna move to the high ground
Take me higher to that higher ground
You and me baby, we're gonna watch the poor drown
They pass their real estate down to their sons and their daughters.
Generations are happy just enjoying the view, but
When the water starts rising you know what they're gonna do
The rich are gonna move to the high ground
The rich are gonna move to the high ground
Holy doodle, look at your town
The rich are gonna move to the high ground
All those singers and actors and philanthropists
Say the poor are at the top of the priority list.
But when the levees start breaking and the barriers fall
Where will they be when we come to pay a courtesy call?
With their mistresses, wives, pets, children and all
At the top of a hill behind a fortified wall.
The rich are gonna move to the high ground
The rich are gonna move to the high ground
Holy doodle, look at your town
The rich are gonna move to the high ground
Every sad number that the scientists find
You get the feeling that some people really don't mind
To see a new feudal age for the whole human race
'Cos the rabble will finally be all back in their place.
They'll be no revolution, we'll be meek as wet mouses
Begging them to let our children serve in their houses.
The rich are gonna move to the high ground
The rich are gonna move to the high ground
Holy doodle, look at your town
The rich are gonna move to the high ground
Take me higher to that higher ground
You and me baby, we're gonna watch the poor drown
The show went a little more electrotextural than normal, but what is ever normal in Orbital Music? Mod Pop trance-formations observed through the Corbiscope this week included the new Hawksley Workman Milk, new Stars' Ghosts, Winter Gloves' All Red, Rae Spoon, Neon Indian, and some re-grooved Beatles and loungey headspace loops. Then we let the blood rush back to your soul with Greg Brown, coming to Hugh's Room next weekend, Geoff Berner's eloquent High Ground (SEE ABOVE), and Mary Gauthier's and Stacy Burke's different songs about home and family. We let a touch of blue shift come over next with a new Charlie Musselwhite ("Sad and Beautiful World"), Les Copeland ("Don't Let The Devil In"), both on Alligator Records, and some rare retro Sly and the Family Stone and Curtis Mayfield, capped by Fred Hammond's jahovial "Happy". Then a Brazilian orgiastic drum chant from Black Orpheus took us to warp speed, Frail Fragment and Skindred brought the Metal Health and the landing pad came into sight with Tanya Philipovitch and her Secret Fiction Romance music.
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