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The Reminder Waltz

from Small Flames by Dylan Blackthorn

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A post-apocalyptic polka band, playing beyond the "Last Waltz", well beyond. Sorry Fury Road Cosplayers, but accordion is the official instrument of the apolkalypse now. This is my tribute to the bipolar-ness within us all, and I mean that with the best intention. I feel you on that, my friends. This is the only song I wrote on lap steel, but it transferred well to the accordion. The accordion may be terribly complicated, but the guitar grid is just too much for my squeezebox-based understanding of music. I wrote this song well before the plague hit, but it seems to be strangely prophetic. Isolation and fear are eagerly peddled by media of all stripes, warranted or no, these tools of control largely keep us 'common folk' from being able to organize to better our lives. To have hope, remember every day and be thankful for the light, the life, the unconditional love of The Sun. Death walks with us also every day, and when we become friends with Death - that is when we truly start to live. To be thankful for what we have,in the face of relentless fear-based programming. Let's do it. Relentless creativity, will, & limitless imagination will be the foundations of our new world - a world with compassion and dignity for all, once we break the shackles of control.

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History now has forever ended
Will the suffering of the past ever be mended?
Epitaph on the tombstone of humanity
From themselves, how they yearned to be free
Oh lord, let that sun keep on shining
shining down on you and on me
Oh lord, let that sun keep on shining
reminding us of what its like to be free... to be free
We lay here, in the darkness
of manufactured melancholy
taught to bend and to worship
just about any form of authority
Oh lord, let that sun keep on shining
shining down on you and on me
Oh lord, let that sun keep on shining
reminding us of what its like to be free... to be free
Let us bring forth the light
into the darkness of our lives
Let's run through the graveyard at midnight
Free the dead inside your head
and rise, RISE, RISE – from your grave!

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from Small Flames, released April 1, 2021
Written and composed by Dylan Blackthorn
Produced by Dylan Blackthorn
Recorded, mixed, & mastered by Matt Smith at 6-String Ranch studio in Austin, Texas.
Dylan Blackthorn - lead vocal, accordion
Samantha Blackthorn - flute
Dr. $ick - fiddle, guitar
Tom Crail - tuba
Michael Rubin - encylopediae harmonicae, backing vocal
Eldridge Goins - drums

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Dylan Blackthorn Austin, Texas

Accordion-driven singer, songwriter, composer, and band leader at THAT Damned Band, Thee Harlequine, & Mazel Tov Kocktail Hour.
Part time Quantum Mechanic with 999 EYES FREAKSHOW & SURREAL SIDESHOW.
Austiner Klezmer Bund member since 2013.
TIME TRAVELER'S Local 999 since 2030. ... more

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