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Song For Ricky

from See You There by Wayfairy

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Sampled with permission from Angela Davis' speech "The Fallacy of Prison Reform" at Keene State College in September of 2015

Dedicated to Richard Zepeda, who spent over a decade in solitary confinement at Pelican Bay in so-called California.

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inside
waiting for release
pacing
spilling words to me
pen pressed
to the page the ink
tracing memories
hold them close now they’re
FADING

outside
stamped with bloody ink
fingers
letter opening
gulls fly
screeching over head
wish was me instead
hold me close now I’m
WAITING

for the collapse
twist open bars
boil down the herbs
slather on scars
left by the lash
out of the ash
fire to the prison
industrial complex

soon you’ll be released
but you will never be free

your voice
comes thin through the line
minutes
click so quickly by
our eyes
ever fiercely dry
pacing the outside
you still wait inside
TIME TO CHOOSE SIDES

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from See You There, released December 25, 2019
recorded by Tennessee Mowrey

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Wayfairy started with a banjo on the turnpike and has grown into a six piece music project that fills the sonic space between mournful folk and riotous punk. Wayfairy has grown into a collective project that blends accordion, banjo, violin, washboard and upright bass with soft vocal harmonies punctuated by raw wails. ... more

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