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Every Body Knows

from UNDERNEATH by Isaac Fosl-van Wyke

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dedicated with gratitude to the Movement for Black Lives.

Words and music arranged by Isaac Fosl-van Wyke. “Blood on the leaves, blood on the roots” is from “Strange Fruit,” written by Abel Meeropol and popularized by Billie Holiday; “neutral on a moving train” is from Howard Zinn; “thin blue thread stitching laws into violence” is from Ruth Wilson Gilmore.

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see brutality we seen before
five centuries, even older
don’t want to fight the empire’s war
i don’t want to be a quiet soldier this time

not gonna swallow my rage and stand around
not while they’re pressin his face into the ground
you try to be neutral on this moving train
while the motion sickness screws up yr brain
and it shows

every body knows [2x]

some bodies sayin “i can’t breathe”
while some bodies on the other side of town
in the shade of the family tree:
blood on the leaves, blood on the roots, way down

whisperin: “i don’t want no body mad at me”
nah, you’d rather wallow in shame and apathy.
tell it to the newborn babe, cryin,
placed in the beartrap jaws of american irons
as they close

every body knows [2x]

hearin’ platitudes we hear every time:
that white noise, k-k-kodes of silence.
your body’s gonna walk that line:
the thin blue thread stitchin’ laws into violence.

O, my god, don’t you feel that fear and trembling?
oh and daddy don’t don’t you hear that rumbling?
coming from the deep-down place where the body heals,
the one that i can see in your face as you pretend not to feel
but it just grows…

every body knows [2x]

i don’t want your body to be let down, be let down [6x]

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from UNDERNEATH, released October 1, 2021
words and music arranged by Isaac Fosl-van Wyke.

“Blood on the leaves, blood on the roots” is from “Strange Fruit,” written by Abel Meeropol and popularized by Billie Holiday; “neutral on a moving train” is from Howard Zinn; “thin blue thread stitching laws into violence” is from Ruth Wilson Gilmore.

guitar and vocals: Isaac Fosl-van Wyke
background vocals: Joan Shelley
final choir: Joan Shelley, Lacey Guthrie, & Charlie Walsh
drums: Rafael Freitas
electric bass: Andy Myers
trumpet: Charlie Walsh
synths: Lacey Guthrie

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Isaac Fosl-van Wyke is a songwriter and puppeteer based out of Louisville, KY.

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