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Two Hands

Nobody believes the scientist
Who's got bad news to tell
But everybody believes the salesman
Who's got something good to sell

Nobody grieves for the ocean
But for the city in the sea
Lord I hear a sadness
After the laughter leaves

Singing what have you done
You son of a gun
You can't defend
The live you spend

The end is the beginning
The beginning the end
The bones of this young country
Got a long ways to mend

Through moments of hopelessness
As the road bends
You've got one hand to hold on
The other one to lend

Nobody needs to shoot the breeze
Just checking their phones instead
Reading about World War Three
As we're laying in bed

'Cause when it feels like facts attack
All the things that you thought you knew
I guess it's easier to believe
The things they'll promise you

Singing what have you done
You son of a gun
You can't defend
The live you spend

The end is the beginning
The beginning the end
The bones of this young country
Got a long ways to mend

In every heart there burns a flame
For the love of glory and the dread of shame
But oh how happy we would be
If we understood that
There is no safety but in doing good

You've got one hand to hold on
The other one to lend

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from Two Hands // Songs of Resistance, released June 29, 2018

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Eric George Burlington, Vermont

Eric George is a Vermont-based songwriter, sound engineer, and performer of original music and poetry. One of the most prolific folk musicians of the Northeast music scene, he is intent upon maintaining the integrity of American folk music while taking a contemporary approach to songwriting. ... more

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