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Old Green

from The Idle Wild by Wooden/Apple/Heart

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Opening verse of "Old Green" taken from the English translation of Ramon Pelegero's "A Un Amic D'euskadi"

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Old green, new green, your country’s moving
It’s the new tasting everything
But before you leave let me stitch your heart up on my sleeve
I don’t love you but you’re part of me

Old red, worn red, the flag of the wounded
Still so many of your songs swimming around in my head
Please let them ring, you set a fire when you sing
You’re here and fearless, not a memory

Mercy isn’t shown, it is given
It’s not a candle if it’s blown out but living in the flame
Whether or not you can feel them, they are chains
But the question is who made them, and who wears them
And who breaks them like a bone

Soft white, off white, always a war of some kind
Why do you bite the hand that feeds you every night?
Are you done being choked out, smoked out by the burning hills of history?

Nation is the game that we’ve been playing
And these borders keep us all the same
if there's no home to defend then language is the end
so until you say their name, they will never surrender

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from The Idle Wild, released October 23, 2015

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