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(The chorus is built around a French folk saying that I encountered in the work of Jaques Ellul, Christian anarchist theologian and prophetic critic of technological society and its inherent facelessness and destruction of human relationships, cultural depth, ethics and the environment. The hummed bridge is taken from a Sacred Harp song, Come Ye Sinners Poor And Needy.)

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Well, I fell so far I thought that I was flying, then slept so long my friends said I was dying
The operation was successful, but the patient died

Now my mind on fire burning memories of Eden, open-eyed nightmare, cattle-car screaming, so many folks huddled inside
Alone and along for the ride

My headphones on, yeah I’m plugged into the family, electric sugar, a filling for each cavity, a drink that’s not been tried
Alone and along for the ride

What a circus! What a threat it is to rest!
Prison walls falling down, singing with the fellowship
The operation was successful, but the patient died

Well, the fruit always grew just fine without the factories, don’t believe me? Check online, the web will tell you everything, getting faster all the time
Alone and along for the ride

Now the crowd goes wild, yeah, the gladiators scream and bleed, ever wonder why the circus bread is always free?
The operation was successful, but the patient died

Slick and clever plastic manufacturing
Pull the lever, never better, something new, the same old thing, a carrot on a fishing line
Alone and along for the ride

I don’t need no more of these machines to make me free, but I’ll sing your freedom song, love, until it’s singing me
The operation was successful, but the patient died

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from Halfway Home, released October 8, 2014

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Seth Martin (aka Seth Mountain or 이산), is a roots musician originally from the Pacific Northwest (US).

Continuing in the radical tradition of artists like Pete Seeger, Woody Guthrie, and Utah Phillips, Martin has been living in Seoul since 2015. He regularly performs with Korean and foreign folk, indie and rock acts.

"Quite possibly the closest thing we have to Woody Guthrie."
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