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Walls Come Crashing

from Jubilee by Atlas & Oracle

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This song came from a lot of places, musically and lyrically. Unlike many of the songs on the album, I talk more about myself in this one, and share a bit about my journey from apathetic to empathetic.

They really teach you that what you should do is ignore everything that bothers you- don't get upset when things aren't fair, because "life isn't fair".

Is it just me, or are the people who say that the most (teachers, in my experience) also the people who are in a position to make things more fair, but chose not to while blaming the world?

The first step in changing yourself for the better lies in remembering the feelings you used to have before you locked them all away, and learning to feel them again.

This can be overwhelming at first. The temptation is there to just bundle it all up again and stop thinking about it.

But we need to think about it. We need to think every single day about why this world isn't fair, and what we can do to make it right.

I don't have one answer that's going to fix the world. I don't think anybody does. But I can tell you how to start: learn how to feel again.

lyrics

I find
There's never been a good defense
For my mind
Against the world we're living in
I find
Everything just makes it worse
How are we supposed to get by?
Some say
Forget that which you cannot change
I thought
That maybe I could be that way
So I ran
But I could not escape
The feelings that were locked up inside me
But now that they're free

She says are you alive and I say barely
She says are you ok and I say rarely
I find I can't feel fine
Because I can't rewind and turn back time
'Cause look I
Never smile on my own it kills me
I've been around the block and nothing thrills me
It's rotten to the ground now
So you can call me when the walls come crashing
Down
We can stop ourselves but we'll never stop the world go round
You can call me when the walls come crashing
Down
Call me when the walls come crashing
Call me when the walls come crashing
You can call me when the walls come crashing

She says are you alive and I say barely
She says are you ok and I say rarely
I find I can't feel fine
Because I can't rewind and turn back time
'Cause look I
Never smile on my own it kills me
I've been around the block and nothing thrills me
It's rotten to the ground now
So you can call me when the walls come crashing
Down
We can stop ourselves but we'll never stop the world go round
You can call me when the walls come crashing
Down
Call me when the walls come crashing
Call me when the walls come crashing
You can call me when the walls come crashing

Down, till the walls come crashing
Again and again they will keep rehashing
The same old fights they had back then
The same old tired arguments
Down, do we all deserve rights?
You'd think they would have picked a different fight
But here we are again
So you can call me when the walls come crashing
Down

credits

from Jubilee, track released November 9, 2021
Vocals & Keys: Atlas O'Clare
Bass: Gemini Jackson
Trombone: Orion Jones
Trumpet: Sam Copernicus
Tenor Sax: Galaxy Brain
Drums: Lorenzo Granget
Mixing/Mastering: Aladdin Vega

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Atlas & Oracle Boston, Massachusetts

Filling in the blanks between ska and pop.

Start with Jubilee. The demo EPs are mostly midi instruments.

Synth ska, ska adjacent, sometimes familiar, always fresh.

Modern messages that get stuck in your head.

Lyrical observations on life in America.

Do you believe that ska can save the world?
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