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we are gonna shine (15​-​05​-​2014)

from The Gamlestan Apartment Recordings (open process edition) by Alex Sharp Cole

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I met a girl in spain, she said the pain became overwhelming
she tried to end it with a knife
15 years of her small towns´ frustrated hopes and tears
crystalized in a moment on a bridge, in west Madrid, dressed in white

by the lights of the city below, you know, I could see that she'd been crying
*it was only then that i saw the vast beauty in / her eyes,
inside there was a dream and there was pain and then i knew we were the same, so i told her:
we are gonna shine

*I met a man who thought his past defined / his life /* he offered me some wine.
i broke the crust of cynicism. He begged me to stay with him, so I *answered* "we are gonna shine."

I told him around the world we are gonna shine
and take away the sadness with the light
i've seen *a lot* of people. I've seen the life in their eyes
we are gonna shine

and then I met a man who owned a corporation
the corporation owned a million lives
he said, "It's funny, all i have to do is pay them
and they'll do work that they don't even like.

and then i met a man who had a conversation with a nation
said the corporations made the masses blind
it doesn't take a TV station anymore to stop a war ( for instance) or, to change the world
this time

so lets start a new religion of the mind
without churches, or dogma, or steeples
we just travel land to land and when the people stop to ask us why,
we tell them: We are gonna shine

around the world we are gonna shine
we'll take away the sadness with the light
we've seen a lot of people. We've seen the life that's in their eyes
we are gonna shine

it's been more than a generation since the world has even tried
we are gonna shine

i seen a lot of people, i've seen the light they have inside
we are gonna shine

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Alex Sharp Cole Gothenburg, Sweden

In an interview with Boulder Weekly, Alex Sharp Cole spoke of his plans with New Media artist Will Epps to start a socially conscious artistic movement. This would manifest as the "Submadreamgun" exhibition in San Francisco, which was also the first "official" showing of the music in public... (continued on last page) archive.boulderweekly.com/060503/buzzlead.html ... more

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