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Done Playing Dead
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Americana
Done Playing Dead was released on August 5, 2022 by Don Giovanni Records as a part of the album Old-Time Folks
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Release DateAugust 5, 2022
LabelDon Giovanni Records
LanguageEnglish
Melodicness
Acousticness
Valence
Danceability
Energy
BPM90

Credits

PERFORMING ARTISTS
Lee Bains + The Glory Fires
Lee Bains + The Glory Fires
Performer
COMPOSITION & LYRICS
Lee Bains
Lee Bains
Composer

Lyrics

[Verse 1]
Co-ops turned to dust in Tuscaloosa oldfields
Union-hall ruins along the muddy banks of the Warrior
The sealed-off mines underneath the hidden jungles of Beat-10
Lint-headed women, coal-dusted men under the boss' guns
Little children burnt black, brown, red in the sun
Spit at retired generals and dandy barons
What it really means to rise again
[PreChorus]
Done playin' dead
Done playin' dead
[Chorus]
Yeah, they're done, done
Yeah, they're done playin'
Yeah, they're done playin' dead
Yeah, they're done, done
Yeah, they're done playin'
Yeah, they're done playin' dead
[Verse 2]
The sweet White Hall grass stirrin' with the ghosts of Tent City
Smell of potluck greens on the Letohatchee breeze
Ancient nighttime whispers of the freedom schools all through Bloody Lowndes
In the gravel lot of a pine-box church
Grandchildren of the enslaved tote twelve-gauges
Make their mark for the Black Panther
At the sanctified sunken edge of that Blackbelt town
[PreChorus]
Done playin' dead
Done playin' dead
[Chorus]
Yeah, they're done, done
Yeah, they're done playin'
Yeah, they're done playin' dead
Yeah, they're done, done
Yeah, they're done playin'
Yeah, they're done playin' dead
Yeah, they're done, done
Yeah, they're done playin'
Yeah, they're done playin' dead
Yeah, they're done, done
Yeah, they're done playin'
Yeah, they're done playin' dead
[Refrain]
Is it that we're cursed or that we're blessed (Oh)
That when we're backed in a corner is when we fight our best? (Oh)
[Verse 3]
From slash-cut huntin' grounds around Notasulga
The dammed-up falls at Tallassee
The factory gates where the Prophet stomped
Shook the earth out from under Tuckabatchee square
The old-time folks turned refugees by Jackson
Takin' root deep down into the cypress swamps
Two-hundred years, three wars, and the richest empire on Earth
Can't push 'em outta there, no
[PreChorus]
Done playin' dead
Done playin' dead
[Chorus]
Yeah, they're done, done
Yeah, they're done playin'
Yeah, they're done playin' dead
Yeah, they're done, done
Yeah, they're done playin'
Yeah, they're done playin' dead
Yeah, they're done, done
Yeah, they're done playin'
Yeah, they're done playin' dead
Yeah, they're done, done
Yeah, they're done playin'
Yeah, they're done playin' dead
Written by: Lee Bains
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