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Love Through Chants A Thousand​-​Mouths Wide

from Protest by Gene Pritsker & Friends

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Love Through Chants A Thousand-Mouths Wide
By Gene Pritsker
featuring the poem ‘The Wolves Have Thrown Us To The Wolves’
by Erik T. Johnson
For classical guitar & narrator

performed by
Erik T. Johnson - narrator
Warren Nicholson - classical guitar

I asked Erik T. Johnson for a poem inspired by the current social changes happening in America so I can be inspired to write a solo classical guitar piece, and he gave me 'The Wolves Have Thrown Us To The Wolves' from which I took the line 'Love Through Chants A Thousand-Mouths Wide' and wrote this composition. Warren Nicholson learned it and recorded it in Toronto, I combined that recording with Erik reading his poem.

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The Wolves Have Thrown Us To The Wolves
by Erik T. Johnson

I.
Yeah, the country, the city’s gone to pot, sucks, man
A citizen’s life no more than a
double-dunked
dental dam
scudding
down the Hudson

O, Dude, shit—I mean shit, but they’ve got us screwed
Tear-gassed, run over, pepper-sprayed and pellet-shot

The wolves have thrown us to the wolves.

And those fangs ain’t no joke

But, here’s the good part:
Now we finally get to howl like we mean it

II.
So hear me my friend
come be my promise-brother, sworn-sister
my family who speaks love through chants a thousand-mouths wide:

If they’re gonna
Kick our
kidneys with steel-toed boots
Lay on the hot cock-tongs
Crunch with truncheons
Fuck with our fingernails

Well, shit, then
Let’s scream like we more than mean it
From a place where purpose is weakness

Let our howls be the weapons
That finally deafens
the bastards
So they never get to hear another confession

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from Protest, released June 23, 2020

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Gene Pritsker New York, New York

Composer/guitarist/rapper/Di.J./producer Gene Pritsker has written over eight hundred compositions, all of his compositions employ an eclectic spectrum of styles and are influenced by his studies of various musical cultures. He is the founder and leader of Sound Liberation; an eclectic hip hop-chamber-jazz-rock-etc. ensemble and co-director of Composers' Concordance and Eclectic Music eXtravaganza ... more

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