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Cry and Fight

from Sleep Like A Noble by The Planes

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Cry and Fight is the 3rd song on Sleep Like a Noble. I remember listening to Obama's farewell speech, and the line that stuck out in my head was his declaration that American needs a "new social contract." It is clear to me, as I'm sure it is to most of you, that our current social contract is broken (I am also well aware that it never really functioned for many marginalized groups in the first place). We simply no longer have an economy where the average person can work full-time, buy a home, save for retirement, afford healthcare, and put their kids through college. Conventional thinking has always been that companies who want to make more money need to hire more people, but in today's world, markets are so saturated and production is so cheap, that often the best way to improve profits is to actually lay people off. And that, my friends, pretty much flips the script on how this whole thing is supposed to work. So cry if you get hired to a pointless, insecure job, and cry if you get laid off, and cry whatever the market does... it's ok, we all do. But be ready to fight too, because 2020 is the first election that we're going to outnumber the Boomers, and if anyone is going to pull this world out of a downward spiral, it's going to be us.

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Hey kid, don’t you know it’s your fault,
We wasted the spoils, and sharpened the tools,
For a monochrome generation of entitled fools.
Now we’ve borrowed all that we can,
And we pin the interest right on you,
And the old guard gets so upset when you don’t,
Want to play by their rules.

Cry if they want you,
Cry if they don’t,
Cry if the market falls,
Cry if it won’t,
It’s the burden of expectations,
Plus the pointlessness of heart,
While the boat that you’re captaining,
Is stuck in the locks,
While they burn down the docks,
That you know.

And they wave it right in your face,
The document they swear you’ve signed.
But you know it’s not your signature,
Scrawled on the line.

So Fight if they want you,
Fight if they don’t,
Fight if the market falls,
Fight if it won’t,
It’s a tough realization,
That the lights won’t come on,
And the long road you’re traveling,
Winds out of the park,
While you grasp in the dark,
For a home.

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from Sleep Like A Noble, released December 11, 2018

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The Planes are a three-piece indie rock band from Brooklyn, NY. Since their founding in 2010 by guitarist/singer Stephen Perry, they’ve earned a reputation for writing catchy indie rock jams, showing up to gigs on time, and taking that last drink ticket off your hands, y’know, if you’re not going to use it anyway and it would just go to waste. ... more

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