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Bitter Tales

from Fervet Opus by CAREY

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Bitter tales
Sitting on my grandfather’s knees, I spent nights and nights hearing stories of all the violence of the strike of 49, and why it changed nothing at the end of the line. Weak and regarded merely as expendable means for making money. “Again we had to find a way to unite all workers, to release them from dust exposure”. An inch of dust on every porch of this city. “We just wanted a way not to expose our families”. Working conditions were at the lowest of the low. “We had no power, the syndicate just had to grow”. The tales of a bitter old man who had no more grain in the quicksand. Tired of the clouds of dust you could cut with a knife. Wanting something more for his kids and wife! The companies owned everything, the workers didn’t have shit. If a whole neighbourhood had to be moved to expend the pit, they would do it! Tired of losing their lives trying to earn it. “If we want justice, we’ll have to take it!”. This anger towards the
machine was rebuilding. This is a climate my grandfather had already seen. As organized as the syndicate was getting, harder the fall would be for the kings. Something was coming.

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from Fervet Opus, released November 15, 2023

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This is a page where I will post songs recorded with all the projects I have been involved with :

Love In Fear
Broken Words
Carey
Inblood
Reversal
The Sleep
Stand As One ... more

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