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The Book of The RAW

from Coincidence Theories by Weather Balloons

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when I wrote this song I had the lyrics about contra as a video game helping to cloud the existence of iran-contra in the public's mind as well as the abstract date of march 16 1988 because it sounded good and I liked the numbers, so I googled the date, and it turned out it was the date of a huge massacre with chemical weapons in Iraq as well as the date of the slightly less reported-on event of Oliver North's indictment over iran-contra.

THAT'S A HELL OF A COINCIDENCE
I'M ON TO THEM

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you are a pope if you can read
"hey no way"
you are a god if you can die
go and try

because in 1988
we'll travel through time
and hide in 1945

saying contra conjures a game
"that's a plan"
they charged me almost $50
"that's insane"

March 16

no thank you goodbye
my heart with a broken egg

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from Coincidence Theories, released February 1, 2012

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