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New World Order

from Tatterhood by Hana Zara

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I wrote this song after a few weeks in New York City. I was living in upper Manhattan, ten minutes from the Bronx, and I was playing music in the subways in Williamsburg. I would leave in the afternoon, ride the subway for an hour, play on the platform for tips, take the subway back to apartment, and when I would finally step above ground the sun would be down. At the time I was very much enjoying the high energy buzz of the city, but I also had the almost creepy feeling that human beings were never meant to live this way, flying through the earth in silver bullets, and going home to send signals into a coded network… New world order takes a wide-lens snapshot of what it means to be alive in today’s world.

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i am just a child of the new world order
a chemical dependence and an eating disorder
and a mind that flickers faster than a times square billboard
and i always am alone among a million strangers

and i never fall in love i just find you in the dark
and i do not know where i'm going cause i can't see the stars
i gave my money to the man who's operating the ride and i went on blind
i went on blind

i am just a child in a world of madness
a body and a mind designed for fields and forests
now neurotically entwined in a machine collective
sending signals in the dark without a true directive

and i never see the sun cause i am 6 feel underground
in a New York City subway station scrounging around
collecting money for the man who's operating the ride and i go on blind
and i go on blind

and i thought you were the man of my dreams
till i saw the track marks that you hid beneath your rosary beads
cause i guess it's hard to be a mystic in the middle of the city
when you're praying to your china white queen

and now i'm not sure you ever fell in love
you just found me in the dark
white knuckle grip against anything that might tear us apart
you caught me smiling at the man who was operating the ride but i had no choice, it was cold outside

and the old man in the park remembered quieter times
he said either let go completely or consent to the ride
give your money to the man who's probably high as a kite and just go on blind
go on blind

and when it crashes i just hope that i've got you by my side and we go together now into the night
yeah we go together now and we hold on tight
yeah we go on faith and we go on blind

and we never see the sun cause we are 6 feet underground
in this New York City subway station scrounging around
collecting money for the man who's operating the ride
and we go on blind
we go on blind

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from Tatterhood, released September 3, 2013

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Hana Zara is an an evolving collection of musical thought-bytes, worlds turned inside-out, and the scattered debris of our psychic oneness

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