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When first you feel the whirlpool it’s a tugging at your heel
a dominance of voices in the streetscape that you feel
it’s nothing like a cloudburst, you realize too late
the whirlpool’s claimed another, it’s an old machine of fate

A-ha

When next you feel the whirlpool you are certain you are saved
the ceiling bends above you, in the tunnels you’re unscathed
in the cave the water’s rising and your flame it flickers low
that’s the nature of the whirlpool and the way the race runs, so

A-ha

I have rectified the whirlpool, the last chapter of the book
forgiven five forefathers for not permitting me to look
in the whirlpool every lover is a life raft and a knife
and both are instrumental to the outcome of the night

A-ha
A-ha

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from Careful in the Future - LP, track released May 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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