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Knocking At The Door (live). Recorded onstage at Rumba Café, March 30, 2016. Happy on keyboards, self-samples, & vocals; Nathan Parker on drums and percussion.

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Knocking At The Door

Politicians' lies
They always try
When they cast their eye
Like dapper John offering apple pie
Them know none of they cause the rot inside
While abetting the nation's ritual heist.

It angers me to see
Such fools to fall
For such fools as these
Who try and rewrite our history
Now they're pumping their
Fists in victory
Engineering economic slavery
Betting on greed & Jesus

(heaven help us all)

The fix is in
Milk-cow begins to bleed
Lo, as she dies
Reckoning slowly
History of flies
Scene repeats
And it's enough just once
To feel sick inside
Derivative theory
Plain people trapped
By a factory farm's
Financial arm,
Again and again
Fattened maggots
Feeding upon hungry men.

Derivative theory (knocking at the door)
Derivative theory, plain people (knocking at the door)..Derivative theory, plain people trapped, (knocking at the door)..etc.

..slapped masses
Knocked on their asses
Thrown out of houses
And meantime
Hotshot upper crust doing just fine.

(coda)

poor people - poor people
poor people - poor people
shut-out people - shut up people
hurtin' people - hurtin' people
working people - working people
sold-out soldier - sold-out soldier
good people - good people
knocking at the door.

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from Knocking at The Door & Sanctify (live) Digital only, track released April 22, 2017
Music by Happy Chichester & Shawn Smith, lyrics by Happy Chichester

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Happy Chichester Columbus, Ohio

Happy Chichester is a singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, & producer from Columbus, OH. An original founding member of Royal Crescent Mob, Howlin' Maggie, & Twilight Singers, he has amassed an impressive discography on independent & major labels
including Sire, Columbia, & Elektra. Happy has worked as a sideman & collaborator with Afghan Whigs, Shawn Smith, Brad, RJD2, & Umar Bin Hassan.
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