Mandibles - Rock Beats Paper

from SpinTunes #16 Round 1 by Spintunes

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Based on the final paragraphs of Shirley Jackson's "The Lottery"
www.newyorker.com/magazine/1948/06/26/the-lottery

lyrics

I knew that this could happen
but I never thought it would
and looking in your eyes
I see I never understood

Once I stood among you
and gripped my rock unwittingly
But the weight of our traditions
finally now is hitting me

Come on, come on, everyone
Come on, come on, everyone

It isn’t right, it isn’t fair
To lob your stones through the air
it goes against our natural lot
for rock to beat paper if paper meets dot

In your Stoney silence
Sound the cries of victims past
There is no explanation
And my life won’t even be the last

chorus

'Lottery in June,
Corn be heavy soon,'
That's what you say,
But you'll be changing your tune
In some future June
When you're in my place.

It isn't right, it isn't fair....

credits

from SpinTunes #16 Round 1, released February 2, 2020
Writing Credits:
Cybronica
Truth
Estaphonia

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