Name: Bad Trade
Duration: P00H04M53S
Description: This is an alternate version of a track from the unreleased album "Let The World End Already".

Bad Trade

by Weird Year

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This is an alternate version of a track from the unreleased album "Let The World End Already".

lyrics

speak of the devil
he’s on your shoulder
he’s closing the border
with an executive order

speak or be leveled
what comes for your neighbor
will come for you later
will ask for some kind of paper

when the weakest ones get weeded out
the next weakest ones will be plucked from the crowd

but our safety for theirs is a very bad trade
and the devil would know, he makes deals every day
and the grapevine would say that the devil’s self-made
but at some point there won’t be a hand left to shake

our safety for theirs is a very bad trade
our safety for theirs is an evil so great
that if we just stand there, ass full of thumb
beg for mercy and pray

we might miss what the Lord said
about mercy embodied
mercy embodied
mercy embodied

credits

released October 23, 2022
Performed by Tara, Hana, Erin, Bea, Justin, Sean, Zach and Isac
Engineered by Brendon Massei (Epiphysis Foundation)
Mixed/Mastered by Don Peris (Innocence Mission)

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Weird Year Harrisburg, Pennsylvania

Harrisburg-based folk-adjacent band led by Tara Toms, featuring long-winded, heavily-harmonized love songs,
existential euphoria, linear melodies and circular conversations with a pinch of twang and the occasional polyrhythm.

discography

Wish and Lean

Apr 2016
Bad Trade

Oct 2022
HWY2

Feb 2016

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