Wounded Knee

from The Stranded West by Swampland

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The debut album from Swampland. 12 songs reminiscent of The Gun Club, Nick Cave, and Dead Moon. White vinyl version limited to 100 copies. Each record comes with digital download.

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The debut album from Swampland. 12 songs reminiscent of The Gun Club, Nick Cave, and Dead Moon. Black vinyl version limited to 400 copies. Each record comes with digital download.

Includes unlimited streaming of The Stranded West via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.

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lyrics

only takes one direction unheard
before you’ll fire at close range
watching from a water bed
gun barrels rattling like change
men lying on the crooked gulch
women and children down the ravine
nursing, grasping for the flag of truce
nation’s hoop snapped to dying dream
friendly fire followed by snow
a blizzard to make all of this land clean
the bodies stacked like crumbling chimneys
with slow release, reluctant steam
men reflected along the creek
widows bow in a shaken silence
sliding their bodies down the trenches
below new crosses from tattered fences
one last shot for a ghost dance plea
no red cloud redemption for the scattered coyote.

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from The Stranded West, released October 20, 2015

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Swampland Long Beach, California

discography

Badlands EP

Feb 2017
The Stranded West

Oct 2015
Demo

Jun 2013

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