Name: Titties, Guns, and Lawyers
Duration: P00H04M16S
Description: This song was written in a day, in a wave of nausea and anger after having watched a video of a man being shot to death by a police officer for no reason.

Titties, Guns, and Lawyers

from N O by Emanuel Ayvas

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This song was written in a day, in a wave of nausea and anger after having watched a video of a man being shot to death by a police officer for no reason.

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I watched a man kill another man on camera.
Talked calmly of it sitting at my table.
Moved from talk of a television show
To the terror that was thrown upon our screens.

What have we won to know as one,
to watch, discuss, and rerun;
Re-watch, discuss again, defend, or take to trying
while we

Watch a man kill another man on camera,
Watch his family fall to pieces like a scene
That we watch on the television shows
That are all my people ever choose to see.

What has to be to take our feeling from our entertainment?
What will we be when all we need is somebody dying?

Everywhere they howl like a chorus,
Everything titties, guns and lawyers.
If titties, guns, and lawyers are all we ever see,
Then titties, guns, and lawyers are all we'll ever be.

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from N O, released June 18, 2020
All music and lyrics written and performed by Emanuel Ayvas.

Music recorded live by Ted Young in Brooklyn NY.
Mixed and Mastered by Emanuel Ayvas.

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Emanuel Ayvas New York

Emanuel Ayvas is a composer/songwriter/multi-instrumentalist. He also leads the bands Emanuel and the Fear, Pale Ramon, and Ayvas and Baller.

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