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From the 2012 indie/handmade LP Down in the Grove.

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Take a look around you, everyone’s the same
Just another number, just another name
Step outside the matrix and they call you insane
Whatever happened to freedom?

All the myths and stories passed along as facts
The stands of politicians, every one an act
The lying and the cheating
The back door alley pacts
Whatever happened to freedom?

It seems the liars and the thieves do just what they please
And there’s nothing you can do
But it’s hard to turn the tide
When criminals reside in the places above you

The way that we are livin’ plays into their hand
The choices we are given fall into their plan
You’ll always be outnumbered
Don’t dare make a stand
Whatever happened to freedom?

Take a look around you
If you can even try
Before they break your courage with their evil eye
Sometimes it don’t take death before a person dies
Whatever happened to freedom?

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from To St. Jude with Desperation: Best Acoustic Tracks, released March 18, 2020
Erik Ritland - acoustic guitar, tambourine, vocals
Marshall Nystrom - slide guitar, bass, harmony vocal

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One of the last great American songwriters in the tradition of Bob Dylan, Johnny Cash, William James, G.K. Chesterton, Jeff Tweedy, and Jim Varney.

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