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A Perfect Circle Lyrics: Fiddle And The Drum

And so once again,
My dear Johnny, my dear friend,
And so once again you are fighting us all,
And when I ask you why,
You raise your sticks and cry, and I fall,
Oh, my friend,
How did you come?,
To trade the fiddle for the drum,
You say I have turned,
Like the enemies you've earned,
But I can remember,
All the good things you are,
And so I ask you please,
Can I help you find the peace and the star?,
Oh, my friend,
What time is this?,
To trade the handshake for the fist

And so once again,
Oh, America my friend,
And so once again,
You are fighting us all,
And when we ask you why,
You raise your sticks and cry and we fall,
Oh, my friend,
How did you come,
To trade the fiddle for the drum

You say we have turned,
Like the enemies you've earned,
But we can remember,
All the good things you are,
And so we ask you please,
Can we help you find the peace and the star?,
Oh my friend,
We have all come,
To fear the beating of your drum


some excerpts from interview articles:

"When we came up with the idea of doing a covers record, there was also the question, 'Why are we doing a covers record?' " Howerdel explained. "We wanted to do something that had meaning to us, something worthy of a third record. That's when Maynard had the idea of doing a political record, and right off the bat I thought it was a good idea.

"Actually," he conceded, "it wouldn't have been the first thing I would have picked, but with the world climate the way it is, and our disgust with all of that, it seemed like a good time to communicate some sort of message."

Prefacing it all is a whispered recitation of "Annihilation" by early '80s punk band Crucifix, setting the tone for what follows with frightening effect: "Reject the system dictating the norms/ From dehumanization to arms production to hasten this nation towards its destruction," Keenan says in a hushed tone. "It's your choice: peace or annihilation."

i thought some here could make use of a cd like this.
enjoy


"as i see it the only "variable" in the equation is THOUGHT. you are capable of changing this and this alone."

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Astarte

I should check out their new album.
I <3 Maynard.


"Milk, almonds and pistachios."

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Ironwood

Good shit maynard


"The Greatest Enemy of Knowledge is Not Ignorance, It is the ILLUSION of Knowledge. Stephen Hawking"

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Wyote

im goin with annihilation.


"UNIX is an operating system, OS/2 is half an operating system, Windows is a shell, and DOS is a boot partition virus. ~Peter H. Coffin"

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iSOUGHT|THOUGHT

that's my favorite


"as i see it the only "variable" in the equation is THOUGHT. you are capable of changing this and this alone."

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