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Native Son

from 20 Years Old by Jesse Hultberg

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There has been a change in the way that I think
I am stopped somewhere between something unseen.
It could be just a feeling.
Oh wait I think I'm changing what I see
Coke bottle glasses don't fit me.
I romanticise community.

Breakdown of all you know, armageddon well under way.
No more This Land is Your Land.
No more Home on the Range.
What makes you so sure it aint
Suppose to be this way.
You're a part of evolution
And a healthy, natural chord change.
Every morning now you're on your knees and praying.
But on Sundays you sleep late yea.
Native daughter and son.
Making your own fun.
Singing your song and teaching yourself
How to read and write
And now you're giggling yourself to sleep tonight

I'm camped on your doorstep are you going let me in?
Cause I'm bleeding and secreting.
Now I'm feeling like I just can't win.
What a crowded planet with an empty heart
Alert on red.
Do you know what really sucks?
What's in my heart is left unsaid.

But every morning now I'm on my knees and praying.
But on Sundays I sleep late cause brunch is great.
I'm a native son.
Having the big FUN
Singing my song and teaching myself computer skills
And now I feel like a prescription filled.

Elevating our role to some dizzying height.
Some unknown altitude
With a human face always in a human place
But somewhere between tradition and invention
I haven't been seen.
At least not recently
And I romanticise community.

Boy I'm having fun.
I'm an American native son.
Researching and rehearsing.
Now I'm marketing myself just right.
Giggling myself to sleep tonight.

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from 20 Years Old, released December 8, 2014

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Jesse Hultberg Montpellier, France

Founding member of NYC band
3 Teens Kill 4.
Album "No Motive" Point Blank records 1982.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/3_Teens_Kill_4
Performed at Wigstock in NY in the 80s. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wigstock
Appeared in the film Longtime Companion with the Fingerlakes Trio 1989 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Longtime_Companion
Created Wildmonk Records and released the CD Jesse Hultberg 1994. ... more

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