What We Saw (solo acoustic)

from Solo Acoustic by Matt Harlan

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Acoustic version of "What We Saw"

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Well, the country’s on fire,
It’s like Vegas in space.
The stakes are so high – man, there’s no time to waste:
All the darkness surrounding, the punches all landing too low.

‘Cause we stepped off the edge,
Got lost in the crowd.
Found out it’s not what you say but how loud.
We ain’t given up, just settling in for the show.

We’re all stallions, spooked and wild in the stall.
Soldiers – too quick on the draw.
Teachers left wondering, what’s that I hear down the hall?
You would be too if you saw what we saw.

‘Cause we grew up on Cosby
Sex, lies, and dreams.
Baptized in cars burning cheap gasoline.
Our disease just keeps spreading like lead down some Michigan stream.

Then we take from sickest ones,
Steal from the the poor.
If it can’t fix itself, that’s a problem ignored:
Living high on the gun and getting low on the floor.

We’re all movies, with an ending too sad,
Mothers, with our babies gone bad.
And we’re dreaming of something that maybe we ain’t ever had.

Is this your civil war?
Or is this our revolution?
Well I guess it depends
On which side’s giving in.

So This is America –
Standing in line.
John Wayne ain’t dead, and the markets are fine,
But the bullets cost money, and I ain’t got a dime.

We’re all stallions, spooked and wild in the stall
Soldiers – too quick on the draw.
Children left wondering, what’s that I hear down the hall.
You would be too if you cared much at all…
Struggling to breathe with your back to the wall…
Wondering which body will be the last straw…
You would be too if you saw what we saw.

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from Solo Acoustic, released March 5, 2021
Written by:
Matt Harlan (Ghost Moon Music, BMI)
Nicolette Good (BMI)
Charles Andrew Harrison (BMI)
Thomas C. Lewis (BMI)
Shawn Parks (H.R. Clown, BMI)

Matt Harlan - vox / guitar

Recorded by Paul Beebe at Beebe Gunn Studio in Houston, TX

Mixed / Mastered by Jeff McDonald in Houston, TX

Photo by Brian T. Atkinson

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Matt Harlan Houston, Texas

Matt Harlan is a troubadour of the first degree, bringing songs of bus-stops, coffee-shops and lives overlooked to stages across his home-state of Texas, the USA and Europe. His expressive vocals recall Chris Smither and Chris Knight, shading his poignant songs with soaring heart and aching grit. ... more

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