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The Ballad of Hiroshima

from After History by Senseless Beatings

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On the steps of the first financial
I saw God explode from the sun.
It was nothing particularly special.
My mind was erased with the instinct to run.

I was a furious fire from mourning,
My grandfather's bones were cold in the ground.
Both of our candles blew out with out warning.
My name was burned into a book still unbound.

Do you know what they have found,
to split the air we breathe?
All chambers still their rounds,
and swords melt into their sheaths

All of my brothers, they honor me deeply,
Standing in line, with slips in their hands.
Paying to pray and silently weeping,
To rise from the ashes and glass covered sands.

Do you know what they have spoke,
To leave all lights but one?
My flesh was turned to smoke,
At the end of a sizzling gun.

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from After History, released January 3, 2011
Thomas Alverson-Guitar/Vocals

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Senseless Beatings Charlotte, North Carolina

Weaving together ephemeral semblances of meaning and vainly groping at values, Senseless Beatings is a musical project(ion) of people with no place to go. In spite of recognizing the vanity of their hopes (being-for-other-that-is-being-for-self), they wander about feverishly writing music that never quite satisfies their desires. ... more

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