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Withstand EP

by Cornelius Eady Group

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1.
Your Freedom 05:29
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Your Freedom Words: Mary Molyneux Music: Cornelius Eady You Freedom has been made possible By no text-book fairy-tale forefather By no likeness molded on a coin Not worth the bending over To pick up off the street. Your Freedom is a Boeing, flying Your Freedom is a Chrysler, gliding Your Freedom is a steel girder, bending In a hurricane wind. Your Freedom is on-going. It is material, and moving Like a sprit captured in a Lucite cube It is a weight that oppresses Nothing. Your Freedom works overtime It’s forever on the phone It’s forever traveling in a briefcase Overflowing with reports of Good Will. Your Freedom never sleeps. It cat-naps in a foreign city Where it dreams Only of you.
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Living With A Sranger 03:15
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Living with a Stranger Words and Music: Cornelius Eady Had a buzz in my belly and a bell in my head Wet coals in my chest, and tears of lead I went to the doctor, and my doctor said: When it’s all said and done You’re living with a stranger, son Living with a stranger. Who’s the man that flattens my heart Who’s the beggar, who’s the thief? Who turned the wine to muddy water, Filled the sails with grief? When it’s all said and done You’re living with a stranger, son. Used to be a wild young cat. I can barely remember that. The stranger creaks, the stranger groans Fat or thin, he haunts your bones. The stranger stoops and sings your name. The mirror swears you’re both the same. When it’s all said and done You’re living with a stranger, son Living with a stranger.
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Tearing Down The Masters House 02:55
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Tearing Down The Master’s House Words and Music: Cornelius Eady A half-loaf is better than no loaf You do you think you are? A bad attitude and a frank opinion Won’t get you very far The Nat’l guard wants you off their yard But I was too busy Tearing down the master’s house There’s two sides to every riot Whom do you think you are? If you don’t believe it, come down and try it They’ll kiss your head with stars! The Pastor said to keep a cool head But we were too busy Tearing down the master’s house. Summertime and the living is cryptic. Where do you think you are? The streets are broken but they never fixed it The old crow didn’t fly far. The men at the gate will ask you to wait But we’re all too busy Tearing down the master’s house.
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Crazy Bible 04:56
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Crazy Bible Words and Music: Cornelius Eady Crazy Bible won’t turn me ‘round Crazy Bible won’t turn me ‘round Crazy Bible won’t turn me ‘round Crazy Bible won’t turn me ‘round Drag Killer won’t turn me ‘round Drag Killer won’t turn me ‘round Drag Killer won’t turn me ‘round Drag Killer won’t turn me ‘round Book Hater won’t turn me ‘round Book Hater won’t turn me ‘round Book Hater won’t turn me ‘round Book Hater won’t turn me’ round Crazy Bible won’t turn me ‘round Crazy Bible won’t turn me ‘round Crazy Bible won’t turn me ‘round Crazy Bible won’t turn me ‘round No Justice, no Peace No Justice, no peace No Justice, no peace Gonna throw a party When the Bullshit cease. Crazy Bible won’t turn me ‘round (It’s self-evident) Crazy Bible won’t turn me ‘round (It’s self-evident) Crazy Bible won’t turn me ‘round (It’s self-evident) Crazy Bible won’t turn me ‘round (It’s self-evident)
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Withstand 03:23
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Withstand Words and Music: Cornelius Eady What can you withstand, now? What can you withstand? All the fights they taught were right Is shifting through your hands All the birds exiled in the sky Got no place to land. What can you withstand, now? What can you withstand? The weathers trying to change Your clothes, A stale wind covers the land Thunder rolls like an exit poll Like some mad judge’s hand. The ground beneath your feet Is turning into sand And it ain’t who’s gonna win Or lose, It’s what you can stand. What can you withstand, now, What can you withstand? All the fights they taught were right Are shifting through your hands All the birds exiled in the sky Got no place to land What can you withstand, now What can you withstand? The weathers trying to change Your mind, Seems you made a mistake; You thought you’d been A citizen, But now they claim you’re A fake. The ground beneath your feet Is shifting into sand And it ain’t who’s gonna Rescue you, It’s what you can stand. What can you withstand, now, What can you withstand? All the fights you thought were right Are shifting through your hands All the birds exiled in the sky Got no place to land. What can you withstand, now, What can you withstand?

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released August 7, 2023

CORNELIUS EADY GROUP:

Cornelius Eady: Vocals
Charlie Rauh: Electric & Acoustic Guitars, Electric Bass & Percussion
Lisa Liu: Keyboards & Percussion
Tracks recorded by Eady, Rauh and Liu
Arranged and mixed by Rauh and Liu
Mastered by Charlie Rauh

All songs by Cornelius Eady, except “Your Freedom”
(Words, Mary Molyneux, Music, Cornelius Eady)

Photo credit: Aliki Barnstone (cover) Karen Kolhmeier (group)
Cover design: Sarah Micklem

A City of the Id Production.

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Cornelius Eady New York, New York

Cornelius Eady is the author of 8 books of poetry, lives in NYC and is the co-founder of Cave Canem. The band Rough Magic came out of the sessions for his CD/Chapbook BOOK OF HOOKS. (Kattywompus Press, Jan. 2013)

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