Overt Like a Shirt

from The Milk by Ortega Fuerte

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We're winding like a wind
Across the long gray land
Where an ocean used to sway
Stretching our peninsular point of view
Across the long dry day
See them threshing the grain
Mountains in the distance,
Battleship gray
Defending the mouth of the long dry bay.

Somebody poisoned the well/ he did it for himself
The message on his shirt/ was just too overt
A million people bought it/ a million people hurt
A million people hurt a similar hurt/
Ain't it surprising that the marketing's sound:
You're either upper crust or underground

But in the morning, there were shores
There were people fishing the shores.
There was ground, people walking the ground--
There was sound, people touched with the sound.
There were stars
There were people drawing lines.
There was time/
There were people marking twine.

Something that happens briefly/
Something that happens briefly/
Something that happens briefly...

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from The Milk, released February 18, 2006
Words and music by Hugo Grayling

Hugo Grayling: Vocal, percussion, inverted guitar, bass
Chris Rohlf: Keyboards, vocal, percussion

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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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