Name: August: Unconditional Love
Duration: P00H04M49S
Description: I had been carrying this song around in my pocket for something like 30 years. It was actually the first song I ever wrote on piano. Ive written no less than 3 sets of lyrics to it, although for whatever reason the 1st verse has always been the same. Verses 2 and 3 were definitely tailored to capture this moment in historical time to keep it on brand for this series.

August: Unconditional Love

from MMXXI by Buck AE Down

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I had been carrying this song around in my pocket for something like 30 years. It was actually the first song I ever wrote on piano. Ive written no less than 3 sets of lyrics to it, although for whatever reason the 1st verse has always been the same. Verses 2 and 3 were definitely tailored to capture this moment in historical time to keep it on brand for this series.

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well the streetlamps are like stethoscopes
on all our teenage dreams
and the heartbeats are the engines
fuelled on by magazines
while the adolescent superhero watches over our defeat
with the last of the zit faced losers genuflecting at his feet
and we're dying to be like them
while they die at what they do
if i could touch the hem of his blue jeans
i believe he'd make me cool
and while the world spins like a drunk in bed
of everything i'd like to prove
the only thing i have worth having
is the thing i have in you
and everything is nothing next to you

we got that unconditional love
unconditional love
because it's unconditional love that you want
and it's all you been dreaming of

watch the new religion
as it reaches apogee
on the steadfast imposition of it's core of disbelief
Onward Christian soldiers marching off to civil war
while the last of the true believers are all filling up the morgues
some will die for country
and some will die for kicks
some will die on ventilators
just to own the libs
some are trapped in 1930s psycho-sexual berlin
some are dying at the hands of cops
from the color of their skin
the roof has raised but the walls are caving in

they got that unconditional love
unconditional love
because it's unconditional love that you want
and it's all you been dreaming of

the invisible hand is at the neck
of the people's marketplace
like the smell of long lost lovers
still upon your pillowcase
like a governor's high school pictures
smiling in blackface
we got 10 million people starving
but there are billionaires in space
we're just neo-feudal peasants
not to be outdone
like a city garbage truck
driving straight into the sun
while the dangerous propaganda
erupts across the TV waves
rattles the population
like an explosion in a cave
this is no way for a people to behave

they need that unconditional love
unconditional love
because it's unconditional love that you want
and it's all you been dreaming of

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from MMXXI, released March 31, 2021
written, arranged, performed, produced, and mastered by
Buck AE Down
at Lanai Soundworks Studios
Pasadena, CA
July 2021

c+p 2021 All The Way Down Music (ASCAP)

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