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My Anger

from Refuge in Genre by Hank IV

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WHAT STARTED OUT AS JUST A LITTLE LUMP
SOON TURNED INTO A BIG OLD BUMP
A WEEK WENT BY IT’D TAKEN UP THE DELL
I WAS ONLY PASSIVE TO ITS SWELL

CLIMB ABOARD YOU KNOW
GOTTA KNOW WHERE TO GO
ALTITUDE IS NO NO-JOKE
KILLS THE MIND AND EGO
RARE AIR AND WINDS BLOW
WHERE EVER YOU GO
WATCH IT GROW
WATCH IT GROW
WATCH IT GROW

SAT AND WATCHED IT UNDULATE
SHIFT AND GRIND ALONG ITS LONG LONG PLATE
PRESSURE BUILDING OVER TIME
ALL ALONG MY OWN FAULT LINE

CLIMB ABOARD YOU KNOW
YOU GOTTA KNOW WHERE TO GO
ALTITUDE IS NO NO-JOKE
KILLS THE MIND AND EGO
RARE AIR AND WINDS BLOW
WHERE EVER YOU GO WATCH IT GROW
WATCH IT GROW

AS TIME PASSED BY I WATCHED IT RISE TIL IT BECAME A HILL
I SAT BY IDLY WATCHING AS IT GREW MUCH LARGER STILL
A SMALL YOUNG MESA, OF GROWING EARTH
RISING EVER UPWARD, TAKING ON MORE GIRTH

A SHINGING MOUNTAN SOARING IN THE SKY
I SIT ON TOP OF IT WONDERING THE WHYS
YOU CLIMBED TO MEET ME, I PUSHED YOU DOWN
THERE’S ONLY ROOM FOR ONE UP HERE ABOVE THE CLOUDS.

I SIT UPON MY MOUNTAIN TOP,
ALONE, JUST BY MYSELF
SO TRAPPED AND ISOLATED, I CAN’T SEE NOBODY ELSE

OH OH OH WATCH IT GROW

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from Refuge in Genre, released October 7, 2008
lyrics - Bob McDonald, music Hank IV

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Hank IV San Francisco, California

Hank IV's hard-charging and visceral dual-guitar rock punk has been likened to “Crime meets Viletones meets Styrenes punk” (Z-Gun Magazine) and by WFMU’s DJ Terre T as “a sick combination of Volcano Suns and Blue Cheer and Chain Gang!”

Hank IV is not related to Hank Williams or any of his descendants.
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