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Rick Berlin - HOW CAN I HATE PEOPLE I DON'T KNOW?

from CATHEDRAL by Rick Berlin (now playing w/ THE NICKEL & DIME BAND)

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did not make it onto THE NICKEL & DIME BAND’S GREAT BIG HOUSE record. For that reason I am releasing this as Berlin/solo. Proud of both song and video. Seems to me that time for this is now. It was also yesterday. And tomorrow. I don’t write protest songs. Others more insightful than I cover that base. In this case I guess I’m protesting myself.

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HOW CAN I HATE PEOPLE I DON'T KNOW?

why do everybody try to make other people look bad
make em tall make em small call em anything
when ya can
yr a faggot
a fatso
yr a fuckin' cunt
it's the same to me
we're all racist pigs
i say
we're sunk

how can I hate people I don't know?
it's easy
i do it all the time

prejudice is simple
you just make up a lie
judgemental is mental
it make you die inside
yr old, yr ugly
yr a frisbee freak
i hate you, why not,
my face is buried
in the ass of sheep

how can I hate people I don't know?
it's easy
i do it all the time

you say you are my daddy
well i guess i am yr son
but it's worse than that mister
cuz we just fightin' over crumbs
red v blue
guns shootin' up bystanders
arabs killin' jews
vicitmized or victimizer
what you teachin' me gang boy
we're all stupid here
lightin' fires

how can I hate people I don't know?
it's easy
i do it all the time

check out narcissus over there
he thinks he's the cat's ass
why look at polyester house wife
why she do anything her daddy ask
(get outa town)
how drunk can you get barfly
yr time is up
mr priest w the acolyte boy
take yr dick out
fill my cup

how can I hate people I don't know?
how can i hate?
it's easy

credits

from CATHEDRAL, released July 12, 1999
All audio tracks: Jane Mangini
Bass: David Goodchild
Vox: Berlin

Mix: TJ Wenzl
Bitch Kitty Studios

Mastering:
Brian Charles
Zippah Recording Studios

Song:
Rick Berlin
ASCAP
Lobsterland Publishing

Camera:
Mahlon Hanifin

Edit:
Berlin

www.berlinrick.com

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A giant on the Boston music scene. His colorful songwriting + strong stage presence have influenced countless other artists since the early 1970s. He continues to make music w/ intelligence + integrity, building an international reputation around his knotty, singular piano playing, straight-from-the-heart singing and a style of character-based songwriting that's drawn comparisons to Waits + Cohen ... more

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