Get all 9 Cornelius Eady releases available on Bandcamp and save 35%.
Includes unlimited streaming via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality downloads of Withstand EP, Withstand (single), THE STERLING BROWN PROJECT: CORNELIUS EADY & ROUGH MAGIC with Rowan Ricardo Phillips, Threnody, WHEN YOU GO TO SLEEP, DO YOU THINK YOU'LL WAKE UP IN AMERICA?, DECEMBER, CHEAP HOTEL EP, Seven Songs EP, and 1 more.
1. |
Your Freedom
05:29
|
|||
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.
|
||||
2. |
Living With A Sranger
03:15
|
|||
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.
|
||||
3. |
||||
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.
|
||||
4. |
Crazy Bible
04:56
|
|||
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)
|
||||
5. |
Withstand
03:23
|
|||
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?
|
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)
Streaming and Download help
If you like Withstand EP, you may also like:
Bandcamp Daily your guide to the world of Bandcamp