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You're My Little Vietnam

from MAINS HUM by Buzzing Strangers

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Check out where the salt crystal radioactive inspiration comes from here (amazing!): www.lanl.gov/newsroom/publicati…docs/tru-waste.pdf

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You're My Little Vietnam

We all wonder who you are
Americium (241)too far gone
Underground the crystal hums
Dried out oceans, numbers, sums...

You're my little Vietnam
You're my little Vietnam

Diamond rays of sunken sun
Warm me with plutonium
Salt dried fish, we drive our cars,
Over the transuranic little stars

You're my little Vietnam
You're my little Vietnam
Agent Orange, napalm balm

You're my little Vietnam
[Guitar]
You're my little Vietnam

credits

from MAINS HUM, track released November 11, 2014
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Featuring the brilliant Ray McGinnis on slap bass. Ray volunteered to add slap to the embryonic stems and I bit his hand off. Luckily he could still play. Once Ray had sent his bass line over from CaliforniA, I was inspired to add the funky rhythm guitar. You have to walk a Nile (Rodgers) in another man's shoes… then it was a transatlantic 9/4 dance number (!) that just needed some vocals and no-one was looking, I was all alone…

My wife suggested adding the twinkle, twinkle little star section…

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Buzzing Strangers

Buzzing strangers into the building is a dangerous pastime. Letting them back out again is kind. Buzzing Strangers came from elsewhere after hearing distorted rock music drifting across the stellar distances. They visited, stayed, and thought it was the best way to communicate... ... more

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