Gaslight

from The Pandemic Songs by HAMELL ON TRIAL

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They're moaning their baloney I be stay at home, they're phoning like they own me and I'm all alone, I'm roamin' with a homie and it's virtual, my pact, I'm cracked the facts you kill. In this age with the rage giant decimal, in a cage with no sage infinitesimal, I wonder at the blunder with the gas light fire, arrested, tested, ass inspired.

( Chorus)
Someone lit it and you get it, someone lit and forget it. Someone said it and you said no, someone said you should forget yo, someone said it and they turned it, someone said it and they burned it, someone said it don't recall it, now you wonder if at all it happened are you crazy? And the memory is hazy, and reality is shattered and you wonder does it matter? And they're master of the gaslight, when it's wrong then they say right, when it's right then they say wrong, when it's weak then they say strong.

Bring the dogs and hogs seen it all before, now I wait hesitate, could he bring me more, this is new so untrue, yet I mop the floor, unleashed feces what they got in store. No blame, no shame does his mind relate? This game, Satan's name, never hesitate. All this fame truth wains and they propagate, and there's germs and worms and then all too late.

(Chorus)

Been around up and down for a century, not before I abhorred honey can't you see? IQ up and flew with the wings askew, I ask you what you do when it's black and blue? And I trust when it's bust that you stay afloat, it's a must when you rust cuz that's all she wrote. Is it wrong when it's gone that you pray a lot? When you're home all alone and that's all you got?

(Chorus)

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from The Pandemic Songs, released June 9, 2020

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HAMELL ON TRIAL Austin, Texas

Hamell on Trial is loud, fast music informed by politics, intelligence and a wicked sense of humor.
1995-Mercury Records-Big as Life, The Chord is Mightier Than the Sword.
1997- Choochtown
2003-Righteous Babe Records-Tough Love
2005, Songs For Parents Who Enjoy Drugs.
2007-“The Terrorism Of Everyday Life,” (Edinburgh Fringe Herald Award)
2012-New West Records -The Happiest Man Alive. ... more

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