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Everybody Wins

from Careful in the Future - LP by James O'Brien

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Everybody wins when the targeter is right
everybody wins in the middle of the night
with tracers incandescent and trajectories green
everybody wins, do you know what I mean
everybody wins when the fixer gets it fixed
everybody wins when the wag-the-dog sticks
when the payoff is un-trackable, the alibi is tight
everything is plausible, evidence is out of sight

Everybody wins
darkest ashes blocking up the sky

Now, everybody wins, are you tired of what he’s saying
everybody wins, even atheists are praying
for the washing floods to thunder down and strip this juke joint clean
everybody wins in the purifying stream

Everybody wins
darkest ashes blocking up the sky
everybody wins
darkest ashes blocking up the sky

Now, if your pain it is intolerable, your bill’s too big to pay
your heart is inconsolable and your conscience in the way
just put your bloodstained money on this cool green velvet tray
because everybody wins in the third act of the play

Everybody wins
darkest ashes blocking up the sky
everybody wins, baby
darkest ashes blocking up the sky
everybody wins
everybody wins
everybody wins

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from Careful in the Future - LP, track released August 15, 2020
Written, performed and recorded by James O'Brien
Mixed and mastered by Matt 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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