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Bolshevik Bank Robber

from Ten Songs for the Machine Age by Useless Grant

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Muddy streets and rotted fruit
and blood from long gone fights
When out a foggy boulevard
come two pinpricks of light.
I run around the corner
and veer off to the right
but the engine noises follow me
from a taxi black as night.

The taxi man he pulled me in
Shot down narrow streets.
He says, “tonight we’re going bank robbing
for revolutionary cash.”

“Carnegie’s got more than enough,
and J. P. Morgan too,
They'll be glad to still be breathing
when we’ve done what we’ve set out to do.”

When dawn broke through the drifting clouds
we counted out the cash.
It came out to many millions
and we distributed the stash.
Millions went out to shanty towns
and to tenements around the world.
For starving bums and peasants
and to houses of raw wood,
from just one night of robbery
in my old neighborhood.

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from Ten Songs for the Machine Age, released May 24, 2015
Conor James - Guitar
Jasper Saah - Bass, Accordion
Isaiah Silvers - Vocals
Molly Beckett - Mandolin
Kalanzi Kajubi - n/a
Marco Saah - Drums

Featuring Jonas Farah-Bumstead on Violin.


Words by Isaiah Silvers, Music by Useless Grant

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