Blood, by Patsy Moore

Blood

from EXPATRIATES by Patsy Moore

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"Blood" is the fifth track on EXPATRIATES.

Pictured on this page is Peter, a slave in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, soon after being whipped by his overseer in 1863.

"And when we found ourselves at last taken away, death was more preferable than life, and a plan was concerted amongst us that we might burn and blow up the ship, and perish all together in the flames." -Ottobah Cugoano

lyrics

In dank cavities not three feet high
Branded bodies in fixed positions
All to break apart the ties that bind
To work the fields
To keep the kitchens
(Keep the kitchens, work the fields)

My blood is
Their blood is
My blood is
Their blood is
My blood is
Their blood is mine

The clang of manacles, the stench of waste
Wretched evidence of conscience faltered
Moaning women and men debased
By heads bowed low at mammon’s altar
(Mammon’s altar, heads bowed low)

My blood is
Their blood is
My blood is
Their blood is
My blood is
Their blood is mine

Their blood is mine

“This one here is strong as an ox
He’ll bale your hay, bust up your rocks
‘Worth his weight in gold!

“That one there is prime for placement
Ample breasts to suckle ivory infants
And suffer midnight visitations, your repeated violations
Going once, going twice, and sold!”

My blood is
Their blood is my blood, my blood
My blood is
Their blood is my blood, my blood
My blood is
Their blood
Their blood
Their blood

Their blood is
My blood is
Their blood is
My blood is
Their blood is
My blood is theirs
Their blood is mine

credits

from EXPATRIATES, released 15 March 2011
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words and music by Patsy Moore
Copyright © 2010 Patchouli Grove/SESAC

Patsy Moore: guitar, synths, programming, backing vocals
Les King: bass
Lauren Wood: backing vocals

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Patsy Moore is an award-winning, critically-acclaimed singer/songwriter who, in the 1990s, released two albums on Warner ... more Bros.. Numerous performers, including jazz world favorite Dianne Reeves, have recorded her tunes. Moore's self-produced full-length recording, *The Most Private Confessions of Saint Clair*, was released in 2008, followed by the ambitious concept album *Expatriates* (2011). less