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I looked in the book
I'm told, the one and only holy book
I stole from myself
from the only shelf that I could reach
to teach me the truth
all about my transgressions
and youthful indiscretions
and sin and damnation....

and I thought to myself
if I showered in a rainbow
and bathed every night
and I blew away my kilo
believing in the myth...that
...It was time for dealing with
this sin around my midriff
and ridding all the world of it
god pray, curse sin and damnation
god pray, my control
to take away the guilt of implications
and pillage mammon gold

So I called all the brotherhood
and cousins from the projects
from Mercer Street in Tangle-wood
with all their stolen objects
and rented all the Legionnaires
back stairs banquet halls
to get them there to tell them all
we're praising God with alcohol
god pray, curse sin and damnation
god pray, my control
to take away the guilt of implications
and pillage mammon gold

(bridge)
stillborn brown stone babies
war torn down Delancy Street
dead armies beaten silent
still cry for their Mother's ....
love, .....but for her crimes,
pain and strife, passed along
......and on and on...and on and on

I was born to this quest
like a virgin to the fire flies
to get it off my chest
all the weight of the worldwide
and purify my heart
but still inside the torture cries
and even when I close my eyes
still I see the fire flies
god pray, curse sin and damnation
god pray, my control
to take away the guilt of implications
and pillage mammon gold

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from Archipelago​/​Baby Boot Box, released January 7, 2020
Baby Boot Box is:
George Engel
Scott Genereau
Craig Malone
Produced by Scott Genereau for Sling Slang Records

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George Engel Hartford, Connecticut

George Engel, a singer/songwriter and for MANY years the owner and operator of Connecticut local music label, Sling Slang Records, has recorded his own songs with his bands, Baby Boot Box and George Engel and the Wedding Band.

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