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It Can't Happen Here

from Broken Grace by Matthew Stewart

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This is one of my oldest tracks...I began writing it even before 9/11/01. It seems to have taken on new relevance lately.

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He's just your neighbor
You couldn't know
The kind of sickness
That a man could sow
Another number
Was called today
You turn your eyes off
Make it go away

So sure you're not blame
(nothing ever changes you)
So sure you're not blame
(you hide your head to get you through)
So sure you're not blame
(nothing ever changes you)
So sure you're not blame

Hand around a wound that's bleeding
Same routine we keep repeating
All the while reciting
"It can't happen here"

Another city
On a different day
The current surges
And the building sway
A grieving nation says there's
Hell to pay
But you change the station
Make it go away

So sure you're not blame
(nothing ever changes you)
So sure you're not blame
(you hide your head to get you through)
So sure you're not blame
(nothing ever changes you)
So sure you're not blame

Hand around a wound that's bleeding
Same routine we keep repeating
All the while reciting
"It can't happen here"

So sure you're not blame
(nothing ever changes you)
So sure you're not blame
(you hide your head, you hide your head)
((Hand around a wound that's bleeding))
So sure you're not blame
(nothing ever changes you)
((Hand around a wound that's bleeding))
So sure you're not blame
(nothing ever reaches you)

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from Broken Grace, released June 19, 2020

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Matthew Stewart San Diego, California

Matthew Stewart is a San Diego-based producer, singer/songwriter, multi-instrumentalist and modular synth enthusiast who enjoys various roles in several different musical acts in San Diego (June Water, Tribute, Network, Ingenue, Scratch). He is an artist on the ambient/electronic label Spotted Peccary Music (ambientelectronic.com). ... more

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