Did You Ever Break Down?

from All Your Days - LP by James O'Brien

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Did you ever break down
In the energized wash
With your shoulders white ashes
With the heat of the cross

On a river rip raging
Across a bridge of black thorn
In a medium wavelength
Did your fingertips burn

Were you raising that black soot
In a circle of night
Did an angel approach you
With silver daggers of light

Was it a ripple of thunder
Was it machine-gun fire
Did the red foaming blood race
Through the trenches of liars

Heaven isn't a place now
Heaven isn't a thought
Absent lords to be served, you
Throw a kingdom of darts

Did you ever break down
In the energized wash
With your shoulders white ashes
With the heat of the cross

Did you ever break down

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from All Your Days - LP, released January 11, 2022
Guitars, vocals: James O'Brien
Bass: Matthew Girard
Drums: Richard Adkins

Mixed and mastered by Matthew Girard

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James O'Brien New York, New York

James O’Brien toured the U.S. and the U.K. from 1998–2004 playing politically aware songs, sometimes solo and sometimes with a band, sharing billings with artists such as Hamell on Trial, Dan Bern, Michael McDermott, John Sinclair, Bill Miller and Freedy Johnson.

In 2017, after a 13-year hiatus, he began to release archival and new material, expanding his catalog to fourteen albums as of 2022.
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