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Rules for Rulers

by David Karsten Daniels

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building a wall, takes no strength at all if you set another stone on another stone on another stone and it will grow tall, and not tend to fall if you fill up the tower with powerful men and then you begin to rule with a fist, if people resist that's when you cut out their tongues (so) they can't sing any song theyve ever sung and if people cry, well that's when you lie you say it never happened like that no it never happened never (n)ever It is a lovely kingdom, and yes it is strong and what I say is right here, it can never be wrong Building a force, if you stay the course is only adding an army to an army, man plus man man plus man plus you can go far, when there is a gaurd to shield the arrows from your back you will never be attacked while retreating not that you would, or that you should when the keys to the castle and every single vassal play right into your every hand, the king of the land that's right they'd never cross you never cross you theyd never dream of crossing you It is a lonely kingdom, even if it is strong but what I say is right here, even if it is wrong Digging a ditch, is kind of a bitch when you never thought that you would need a hole to climb out of who knew that that you'd need escape, the pillage and rape that you had brought down on your people's heads that they could ever think instead that you were lie, and deserved to die for all your wheeling and dealing yeah you took advantage of every gift that they ever gave, you'll burn at the stake! So you better get to digging, you had better dig, youre digging digging She was a lonely kingdom, even when she was strong and I won't forget her, even though she is gone

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How do authoritarians do it? This is how they do.

(Cassette version with tape only B side coming soon)

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released November 15, 2019

As is often the case, Perry Wright came up with the song title.

Ye olde saxophone was probably played by Jon Mackey. Yet truthfully, we do not remember.

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all songs published by smll thngs (ascap)
(p) 2019 smll thngs

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David Karsten Daniels Bend, Oregon

The albums of David Karsten Daniels inhabit a unique imaginary place where folk, rock, pop, ambient, jazz and field recordings bleed into each other seamlessly underneath musings on family, life/death, religion and love undeterred by distance and time. NPR named his collaboration with Fight the Big Bull, one of the ‘5 best genre-defying albums of 2010”. ... more

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