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Not Berlin Before the Fall

from Streetcar Curtsy 0002 by Cam Jones

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China is notorious for government control of the media.

It was difficult to miss the irony, especially after a two week blackout of CNN and the BBC in my apartment in the Tianjin Economic Development Area, when reports of academics losing their scholarly freedoms under the Bush Administration, illustrated just how close to home othering can become.

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Academics line the wall;
it’s not Berlin before the fall.
Exodus of minds and debate,
dumbing down of the state.

Chorus:
Treason takes the form of dissent.
Here we don’t burn books, they don’t get writ.
Here we all speak from a script,
written by ventriloquists.

The healthily engaged lose their voice.
Drowned out by ambient noise.
Liberal-humanist jeopardy:
Who are you to challenge belief?

Chorus

Bridge:
And the canvas falls to the floor.
And the oil paint runs below the door.
It’s an execution, the most deliberate sort.
Kill the only form of retort,
Hang from the walls freedom’s corpse.

Academics line the wall;
it’s not Berlin before the fall.

credits

from Streetcar Curtsy 0002, released September 21, 2012
Sounds - Cam Jones
Recorded - Meech Creek Studios (Neal Sundet)
Mixed - Fiddlehead Studios (Stephen Rapos)
Mastered - Fiddlehead Studios (Stephen Rapos)

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Streetcar Curtsy Ottawa, Ontario

One VOICE, one GUITAR.

Cam Jones is a singer-songwriter, solo-acoustic-electric- rhytmic-folk-rock evolution based in Ottawa, Canada.

At the heart of Cam's songs is an agenda with words. The poetry of Cam's lyrics is an intentional attempt to diffuse basic structure by bringing the song in every poem to the instrument that rounds them.

"This machine kills fascists." - or, at least, debates them ... more

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