The Chalice (Dead Gentry)

from The Chalice by Highlife

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Let's have a warm winter
The high sun is out
It's dripping from your mouth.
If we get it started
Well I'll really turn it out
Banish any doubt.

It's either Olde English
or a bottle and cork
Here in young New York
And if you're young and black
Cops they track you down the block
To a door that never locks
While all the dead gentry
Line for brunch and moan
Whining at their phones.

And we all take pride in
Knowing all the news
So there's nothing we can do huh?
Here on the big island
Far removed from filth
All laid out and built up.

Out on the reservation
Where the natives are confined
by the bullying old rhyme
There'll be a pyre burning
Smouldering the ground
Built from every crown.

I've seen you kept up thinking
You're sinking down into the cut
Boy you're just sipping from the cup
Sipping from the cup
Sipping from the cup...
The Chalice
The Chalice
Chalice...

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from The Chalice, released October 17, 2019
"The Chalice (Dead Gentry)" written, performed and recorded by "Sleepy" Doug Shaw. Mixed and Mastered by Tim Dewit aka "Dutch E Germ"

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Highlife New York, New York

HIGHLIFE is the moniker of London born Singer, Guitarist, Songwriter "Sleepy” Doug Shaw a member of Gang Gang Dance, formerly of White Magic, Janka Nabay (R.I.P.). Shaw has contributed to albums of Cass McCombs, Eric Copeland and has toured and shared the stage around the world with Lou Reed, Lee Scratch Perry, Animal Collective, Terry Riley, Yoko Ono, Michael Hurley, Bert Jansch, Black Dice, etc ... more

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