Touched​!​!​! By The Invisible Hand

by John The Rabbit

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1.
Whatever It Is 04:37
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nothing between it & me whatever it is whatever you call it it is sand on my chapped lips whatever it is whatever you call it its tide troubles my dark shores whatever it is whatever you call it its is safe as shattered glass whatever it is whatever you call it roll on river, roll on raise your wet hands scroll on, skywheel, scroll on disrupt our plans & I know this isn't gonna get easier no no no this isn't gonna get easier bigger than my mind can hold whatever it is whatever you call it as if my life had not been whatever it is whatever you call it drive on, moonlight drive on unveil the stars turn round planet, turn round show who we are & I know this isn't gonna get easier no no no this isn't gonna get easier as if my heart & blood meant nothing as if my words & songs unravelled sometimes I face you you are the dark sometimes there's no fire only a spark & I know this isn't gonna get easier no no no this isn't gonna get easier & I know this isn't gonna get easier no no no this isn't gonna get easier
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Well I Suppose 01:15
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It Ain't Alright 05:35
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We were up late talking about the end of time & you held me sleepy with my mind on fire had a bad dream we were watching the ship go down until daybreak brought the drones buzzarding round The gunmetal sky & the devil’s arctic breath bringing winter back while the polar ice caps crack & I felt invisible in this sweet land of liberty In the rolling blackout speaking in tongues or poetry it ain't alright just look at the clouds rattling my teeth a wrath is coming down pray for thunder but not the lightning strike feels like summer in the middle of a January night the market's crooked hand reaching out to me my soul gone haywire like this city on the brink it ain't alright just look at the clouds tremor in my bones a wrath is coming down I should be choking this air's too thick to breathe here come the angels to pour it out on me and I need your touch though all it'll change is me might have to be enough in the last days of history it ain't alright just look at the clouds a boiling in my blood a wrath is coming down
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One Day I'll 03:44
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time ain't my friend down to bones in the end even with the way I've been voting & keeping my mind open time ain't on my side sooner or later we all ride on that grey moonlight train swallow coal & shovel rain time ain't gonna stop the grave won't be robbed ain't no cash, cars or couture keep the hound from scratching at my door time won't give way we all have our day don't matter all the books I read or what kind of life I led one day I'll one day one day I'll one day no time won't relent after all the money is spent there's still the cold logic of the clock countdown til them boney fingers knock time won't back down there ain't no wiggling out I asked the angel & the angel said the hungry ancient mouth always gets fed one day I'll one day one day I'll one day
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Explanation Of Benefits 02:44
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Superhero Movie 04:35
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aint gonna be no billionaire in a rocket suit come to save the day aint gonna be no president with a potty mouth scaring us straight ain't gonna be no hip hop star with a fancy car fixing the economy ain't gonna be no journalist with a bone to pick changing everything take a good look around we're the only ones here now I can't say that I know how but we can't let 'em keep us down ain't gonna be no judgement day when the wicked burn or change their ways ain't no end to history no paradise no easy solutions take a good look around we're the only ones here now I can't say that I know how but we can't let 'em keep us down who said that we should be the change we want to see honestly I don't know what that means but I want more than just getting by take a good look around we're the only ones here now I can't say that I know how but we can't let 'em keep us down
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Adulting 03:30
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G / B / L / M 03:33
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behind the mind of the economy there's a burning eye always eyeing me great big lying mouth great big lying mouth big mouth grinning like a bad romance in a colosseum of sycophants great big lying mouth great big lying mouth smartphone autocrat fail to the thief smartass big mouth commander in grief great big lying mouth great big lying mouth great big lying mouth disrupt & plunder pull it all apart pretty for the tv sticky sickly heart great big lying mouth great big lying mouth great big lying mouth tossing & turning in such times as these big mouth opens up screams away my dreams great big lying mouth
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The Gig Economy 03:02
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The Art Of The Steal 04:38
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here comes that invisible bloody hand junking up your life, chewing up your plans with its winning grin of icepicks & razors handsome devil always on his worst behaviour say a little prayer to the economy sharpening its nails with its killer credit history like god its everywhere you want to be just skim the terms of service & click I agree ghost money haunts you like a payday loan & the President's eyeballing that little red phone while a billionaire rapper chants watch the throne & the rest of us work our bodies to the bone & the social network dealing bad advice weighing your biography with hungry eyes none of this is as fun as was advertised when the bill comes due we're in for a big surprise it's the art of the steal at the heart of the deal third time this week you woke with a headache & your weary soul feels like it used up all its sick days if you had a moment to think you'd feel the heartbreak but no amount of surgery will make you love your own face the tightwads on Wall Street are deciding our fate the cheapskates in Congress are counting their take it gets harder to tell between real news & the fake & here comes that bloody hand again knocking at your gate it's the art of the steal at the heart of the deal
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Moneyweak 03:57
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i dont want to have to sharpen my teeth this time dont want to get used to the taste of ash i don't want to misunderstand my own life don't want to keep on poking at the gash i aint gonna bloody my knees crawling from some sin aint gonna kiss some pissant emperor's ring i ain't gonna open my mouth for the hammer again aint gonna enter my details into that thing but I'm so tired yeah so tired of wearing the world like a coat that doesn't fit I'm so tired yeah so tired of crawling on the surface of this spinning planet I don't wanna spend my life swinging fists don't wanna hold off living for some mythical payday I don't wanna watch my burnt friends throwing fits market targets on sale signalling mayday & we're so tired yeah so tired of trying to memorize all the things we'll soon forget just so tired yeah so tired of protecting our faces in case we take another hit eyes, songs, dreams money-weak, thinner than milky light fluttering from glass screens night in our mouths, commerce in our ears empty algorithmic music lives blistered by fear
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Location Data 04:00
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13.
Little Fight 03:28
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when the moth comes & the bankers come & the teenagers with guns & the loan sharks slinging credit cards & the internet says I should be having fun & my days run & my heart drums & I might be coming undone while the online stars act like life ain't hard after their photoshoots are packed up & done well there's fake news & too much to do & these ordinary blues while I can still breathe I think I need to see what I might be if I can make sense of me I think might have a little fight left in me
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A.I. Will Eventually Replace You 02:29
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15.
White Knight 04:36
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you don't know if they want you because they really want you of if they only want you because they know you want them to you tell yourself you don't want this power but you don't know yourself without this power
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Personalized Content 05:13
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just let me bleed if I need to bleed you can't give me what I won't receive this nation keeps what it needs to free all underneath its history don't ignore me I need to grieve I've been reaching for some relief bury this seed hope for a tree tastes like defeat just let it be I see us come apart at the seams and I know a country's just an agreement and what are we supposed to be then without each other to believe in then shall we weep for what we've seen sharpen our teeth breathe gasoline now we're in deep & unredeemed I don't believe heal thou my unbelief I see us come apart at the seams and I know a country's just an agreement and what are we supposed to be then without each other to believe in
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Do Not Track 04:57
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If You Say It 06:51
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daydreams decisions I really need to be in your arms past-due doldrums I really need to be in your arms headlights & sirens I really need to be in your arms smartphone bear witness I really need to be in your arms ice hand blood swimming I really need to be in your arms sifted through this city I really need to be in your arms bad songs & worse luck I really need to be in your arms night moves & train stuck I really need to be in your arms don't say you're crazy what does that even mean tell me you love me if you say it I'll believe data mined for my state of mind I really need to be in your arms anxious on caffeine I really need to be in your arms left behind by the last train I really need to be in your arms grey sky winter rain I really need to be in your arms don't check your email don't take that call tell me about love I'll believe it all we'll make an interesting life from what life brings open hearts & strength of mind build a love to weather time don't say you're crazy what does that even mean tell me you love me if you say it I'll believe don't check your email don't take that call tell me about love I'll believe it all
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Confluence 03:13
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love i like when, without a plan we end up riding on the same train there are probably reasons; probably there are algorithms, systems we are in that governs it all when i see you step on through the sliding doors from the platform i don't care what they are
20.
Here Now 01:36
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21.
Little Blue Dot 05:21
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i used to get so lost jumbled turned around i used to think the world was a place that I moved through you got the whole Earth in your little phone it knows where you are & where you want to go i got a photo of you in my little phone it glows like you do like you always do no matter where you stand center of the universe it builds itself around your every little move my country in your hand you're the little blue dot you light up the map you little blue dot it moves when you move little blue dot invite me to your world little blue dot little blue dot little blue dot I got my own world held here in my hand tell it where you are that's where I want to go I fell in love with you & your face became my home & now I point to you no matter where I go you know where I am I'm the little blue dot this could be our map us little blue dots I move when you move little blue dot come in to my world little blue dot little blue dot little blue dot love I wanna share location with you do you wanna share location with me
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The Gift 01:50
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23.
A Map Always Describes The Past 05:53
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my face tells the story of what happened to my face my heart is a map of suffering & grace the present's just the way the past takes up space my arms tell the tale of what I've embraced
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At Night At Home At Last 03:45
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about

I was supposed to be working on something else. While fixing a technical problem with a microphone for a collaborater, I needed to sing into it, and I started singing the lyrics to what would become the song "Moneyweak." I coudn't get it out of my head, so i decided I was set up to record, and I may as well sing everything that was coming to mind. Songs were soon pouring out me and it wasn't long before I realized I was writing a new album. I'd been listening to some movie soundtracks and I liked how regular pop and rock songs were interspersed with instrumentals, and I decided to make a soundtrack to living under late market capitalism. I know a lot of people struggling to make ends meet, struggling to deal with the emotional, social and financial traumas authored to serve capitalism and I wanted to explore those struggles, fears, doubts and even the sometime-joys.
I've also been listening to the music of a lot of outsider and experimental musicians, from early Brian Eno to 1980s Tom Waits, and to composers pushing the envelope of what counts as music at all, like LaMonte Young and Harry Partch. This music sounds like none of them, but I was thinking of them and their approaches when I was composing and producing. Can I make a song about the end of everything with an out of tune guitar? Can I make the track with my singing clip on purpose?
Mostly, though I wanted to make the album I'd like to hear, one that doesn't exist but I need. Maybe someone else needs to hear these songs too. Maybe that someone is you.

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released February 19, 2019

All instruments and singing: John the Rabbit

Engineered, mixed and mastered by John the Rabbit

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John The Rabbit is the nom du guerre of poet, programmer and musician John Paul Davis.

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