Staying Power II

from The Outer Rings by Smalt Mine

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I believe at the end of the world there will be
people in terror huddling in their
homes with friends and family
don't you?
Or will it be more like an enormous curve where the
rich or the strong or the smart
will be the last to survive
You believe, I believe, we could be
stronger or smarter, that
we could be the ones
don't you?
You believe, I believe, we're gonna
be there in the end

We're gonna be there in the end

You'd wanna get drunk and I'd wanna get high and
we'd all get along
and we'd all be alone in our lies
But we'd wanna be together there at the end
Oh my friend, oh my friend, oh my friend, oh my friend
And we would reenact our forgotten violence
bathe in the river
feel like we'd never before
And we would burn all our American dreams and be
freer than we ever
thought we would be
And we'd become like primordial man
I am the one
I will be gone
And no one else will ever know what it's like, and it's
like nothing else, and it's
only a thing in our minds
You believe, I believe, we could be
pieces of something
that we'll go on and on
don't you?
You believe, I believe, we're gonna
be there in the end

We're gonna be there in the end

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from The Outer Rings, released September 3, 2014

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Smalt Mine Appleton, Wisconsin

Smalt Mine makes music: infinitely re-listenable songs with unpredictable bends. Recorded and produced at home, these are songs to take you places nostalgic, unsettling, and exciting.

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Intent

Jan 2015
The Outer Rings

Sep 2014
The Holidays

Dec 2013
The Dead

Mar 2013

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