Hoover Dam

from To A Deer Outside Ithaca by Rupe Shearns

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HOOVER DAM
It was the loneliest day for the River Colorado
All of her people red and white were blue
They who served the same God, country and terrain
Their terrain won’t look the same for long

It was the holiest river west of the Hebrew highlands
Now a municipal resource to reclaim
So it would remain by eminent domain
But the people could not remain where they were for long

You can sandblast a land mass turn it into a pillar of salt
You can make a dead fish twitch with an electrode in its heart
Just because you can does not make it God’s plan
If the Hoover Dam does stand it stands before God

Out with the rocks and the trees and the loose dirt underneath
The village streets the church steeple and all the townspeople
Let the tremble of machines make room for a desert lake
If you think you can spare our land for a monument to man
So too the souls of the perverts at the U.S.D.O.I. cannot be saved

You can sandblast an island turn it into a pillar of salt
You can make a dead fish twitch with an electrode in its heart
Just because you can does not make it God’s plan
If the Hoover Dam does stand it stands before God

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from To A Deer Outside Ithaca, released October 20, 2017
Matt Whyte: vocals, guitar, banjo, piano, organ
Noah Murphy: vocals, drums, percussion, muppetry
Daniel Rossen: banjo
Dave Smoota: trombone
Elizabeth Hanley: violin
Patrick Holmes: clarinet
Lucas Papaelias: mandolin
Joan Wasser, Parker Kindred, Heidi Beth Ferrell,
Jay Russo, Tara Autovino: additional muppetry

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