1996

from Rose from the Rubble EP by The Fabulous 464s

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lyrics

Well we rose from the rubble, took a hard look around the place
Through hot, oily air, saw despair cover every face
Time chose to stop and consider other avenues
Moving in directions to show how much we had to lose

So we fly through the future, all the way to 1996
Skidding to a stop and hoping there’s still time to fix
Broken bonds of trust, and all the duties we rejected
Hoping there’s still time to get our crooked course corrected

CHORUS:
We gave in to all the allure of division
We let all the charlatans make our decisions
We took all our knowledge and added lazy revisions
To avoid hard choices
We’ve been who we are since the world was young
And now that it seems that our songs are all sung
We feel the words on the tip of the tongue
But we lost our voices

So we fly through the future all the way to 1996…

Well the eaters at the diner say it’s never been like this before
Walls are falling down around us, nothing’s stable anymore
Then an old battered TV said it’s OK to draw the line
The oracle of TV said what’s yours is yours, what’s mine is mine
And above, all the scavengers then prepared to dine

CHORUS

And when we return, maybe what we’ve learned
Will have unmade our lives with its merciful knives
As the faces swirl through an undone world
Of souls that matter and lives that shatter and form again

Well the girl giving gifts said “I’m giving up and dropping out.
Gonna hit the road, gonna find out what I’m all about.”
And the boy with the guitar said “Solutions ain’t my currency.
The know-it-alls and Pollyannas never did a thing for me.”
And the scavengers watched from the lowest branch of the tree

CHORUS

Now we rise up against the ways of 1996

credits

from Rose from the Rubble EP, released March 1, 2021

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The Fabulous 464s Portland, Oregon

The Fabulous Four Six Fours record on a four track cassette deck in Portland, OR.

They make melody- forward music with probably too many chords.

They sing tart little poems over those chords, and they put the vocal harmonies really high in the mix. And they call it quits after one or two takes.

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