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Digging Up the War

by Hugo Grayling and the Deserters

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Johnny found the gun
It was bricked into the wall
Then he chipped away all night
To expose it all
The others seemed distressed
They said to throw it in the sea
No good can come of this
You're gonna see

Digging up the war

Day of the parade
Selling fragments of a bomb
So you can fetishize what terrified
Your dad and mom
Granddad's house explodes
Into an opening of light
That you can drive into museum rooms
Of what survived

Digging up the war

It's not a play to put on, put on, put on

Milk goes into this
And bread comes out of that:
This is life, forever now
In seconds flat.
But someone's at the door
Now the gun's behind the chair
and 'this is always that--I'm sure,'
Does that seem fair

Digging up the war

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released December 1, 2018

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Ortega Fuerte Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

Ortega Fuerte are a group of songwriters and multi-instrumentalists founded in 2003 by core member Hugo Grayling and often including the contributions of Air Anchor's Chris Rohlf.

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