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Lightning Swords of Shadows and Justice

by Sons of Hanzo

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1.
wheels in motion got 'em on the run lipstick on a pig at the point of a gun no time to reflect on the things I have done blow, ye winds, blow blow, winds, blow it's casa hanzo (calling mr donzo) these feets has got to move leaves in the pool say it's time to re-tool and the dateline's to the east can't hold it in so I let it all go bottom's dropping out I'm feeling for my board cut the chute and pull the ripchord blow, ye winds, etc. hands in the air now get down on the ground got you covered don't you make a sound pockets turned out nothing is found blow, ye winds, etc. casa hanzo (calling mr donzo) these blues won't play themselves writing's on the wall someone's got to fall it better be you than me casa hanzo (hey, donzo!) let the bells of freedom ring with my back on the springs and another in the wings I'm playing for keeps this time
2.
San Pedro 03:03
t-bone break in the middle of the night a jose on his tail high speed chase down Harbor Blvd. cross the timeline into hell keep riding, riding through the night don't let those tail lights fail 'cuz if you ride it hard enough you might just make it home keep driving, driving, driving Harbor Fwy South take that Gaffey offramp San Pedro sun rise slow on a foggy morning make my way to school half past bell it casts a spell peeling in the gloom can't make the shapes the door I know take my place in line turn to see who's pushing me crawl right up on my spine keep driving, etc. can't sit still my thoughts they spill around the edge of time whispered threats I can't forget unspoken passions bind drove until I conquered conquered 'til I froze left the peace of dreamless sleep went right back down that road keep driving, etc.
3.
Devil's Work 03:52
if you're needing to believe in hey, don't blame me because I do the devil's work, baby any fool can see if the sky is the limit and you can't get no higher then why draw the limits around your heart's desire? say you're feeling lonely, baby hey, don't blame me 'cuz I do the devil's work, baby and I'd do it for free you can take a flight of fancy on a broken wing your hopes for the future make this old heart sing I'm just the rhythm man, I drive his car I want you all to know just how far I've got say you're feeling lonely, baby hey, don't blame me because I do the devil's work, baby now, you let me be don't take no donations, don't sing in no choir if you can't stand the heat then get the ____ out of the fire
4.
Marseilles 03:20
my girl has a mouth profane she's spitting it out like a sewer drain a long list of lovers that have gone before the only one she thinks of is Count Mirabeau the pale English dogs she holds at bay Sir Edmund Burke is singing the Marseillaise she spreads her legs in the Parisian way the hand that rocks the cradle is the one to blame tomorrow won't come unless you take that train murdered in the morning before the bed is made she's a selfish lover, but it's my disgrace she bears the burden I just look away they dress her up, but she shows some leg I tickle her chin she opens up her veins she spreads her legs, etc.
5.
Joe Hill 04:13
it's easy for people to speak of free trade when they don't have to live with the problems it made working for a starvation wage you'll never get ahead, barely stay in place and if you don't think it can happen to you just wait until you're hungry and look at what you'll do who wrote the history? who put it in books? who dropped the anchor? and who gets the hook? get out of your car and onto the street consider the distance, vote with your feet it's a new century give a year or two take a look around see what you can do you can fill a book with workingmen's tunes and still feel the boot of the bosses' goons from the San Pedro docks he hopped the Salt Lake line made it up to Utah just in time to be tried and convicted of another man's crime his life turned into a nursery rhyme who wrote the history?, etc. you can say that the earth belongs to all mankind but you're begging for scraps from the first in line suckered with stories of the glory of old and the promise of bounty in the days to unfold if you grow up to question how it was we got here they built you see (they say) nothing else is so clear who wrote the history?, etc.
6.
I started late let's see who's quicker getting to this place spring is not for me give me winter's blanket of obscurity nothing ever happened you were never here the future looks better when there are no tears if we were ever happy then it must have slipped my mind
7.
it's times like these that make me feel better get me off of my knees fading light of a day turned over when there's nothing left to see I can't stand the light of another day the failure is plastered all over my face a little bit of this goes a long, long way life is spinning like a plate on a stick all my balls in the air if they fall you won't catch them all don't even know why I care I can't stand the people got what I don't you married a lawyer, now you're trading up to a poor man wealth is crime enough
8.
Fuck, Fidel 03:50
well, there ain't no ham for the revolution man he comes swinging on his blade with a right-cross stunt and the devil's out in front spitting nails for the bed he made he retired to a bed on Brixton's bloody streets where he'd seen it all before for the price of his purse he set it all in reverse tending fires on the storeroom floor he swore that he was never going home put the pen back in its sheath what was black and then white is now completely out of sight a little shit on his bended knee va bien, Fidel whatever you say let the dead man have a little light a martyr's pose is all that you know you can't sing but you sure can fight this kind of courage it can't be measured explain this all to me in times of worry it can't be measured explain this all to me won't you, Joe? it's a little late for a fashion plate but they can't say you didn't try they wanted it worse but you got there first now there's no one left to cry the best would say there's going to come a day which they swore behind gritted teeth so they hid their burns and waited out their turns on the ass-end of History this kind of courage, etc.
9.
came down from the mountain with an offering to the sea left it on the desert and rode back over your dreams left out for the Wasteland the secrets are buried there the dirty business of History a prophet without a chair why did we waste all the visions? why doesn't God speak to me? what more do I have to leave? I can't see the end from here mercy is for suckers murder is divine we can help with your salvation let us love you by taking your life we can call the meanest Devils beat you at any game who wears the bloody mantle? who declares the fullness of time? send me destroying angels let no man take fruit from the vine if left to our own devices we know how to read our own signs
10.
Have No Fear 02:33
have no fear daddy's here it will all be clear by morning the sun is gone it won't be long clouds will blow away everything's gone away everything's gone to waste have no fear the end is near it will all be clear by morning the sun is gone it won't be long clouds will blow away everything's gone away everything's gone to waste have no fear breathe on this mirror it will all be clear by morning the sun is gone it won't be long clouds will blow away everything's gone away everything's gone to waste

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released October 23, 2017

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Sons of Hanzo Los Angeles, California

Hard-charging quartet straight from San Pedro CA USA.

Three parts Mike Watt & the Secondmen (Pete Mazich and Jerry Trebotic).

One part, Donzo.

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