Clay by Rising Appalachia

Album: The Lost Mystique Of Being In The Know (2021)

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This song came out of the volatility of the 2020-2021 COVID-19 pandemic and the civil unrest that accompanied it. Rising Appalachia had always built their brand on political activism, so the 2020 events in response to the death of George Floyd and other acts of police-related violence hit them especially hard. "Clay" is not directly about any of those things, but it came out of that pressure cooker.
The song is a sound portrait of Rising Appalachia's home in the Appalachian Mountains. As Chloe Smith told Songfacts, the song is, "Abstract poetics framing the black mountain of our Appalachian home."

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Reformed from EarthAhmazing! Rising Appalachia, frontier of feminism and globalism.
'Raised in dirt church' yet toes the line of the system that they espoused to let's all "bring down to its knees" - how? by conforming to its anti-human, anti-nature tenants of coercion, guilt, shame, pressure, and oppression to inject into our sacred bodies another anti-nature mRNA encoded adenovirus technology packaged into a simian cell matrix "vaccine"?

It is as if to say:

"Don't come to OUR shows if you don't take this pledge of allegiance to the patriarchal power system we all bow to to save us in our Moment of truth, our Moment of fear, the one in which we chose submission to its strength; the one real test in our lives that up to now we had only to simply pay rebellion-lip-service to (personal and communal agency vs groupthink and conformity) ; the one real test to date that challenges ideals now shown to be so hollow as we have proven that we won't physically show up for and stand AGAINST the systems of corporations of Johnson and Johnson, Pfizer, Moderna, and their government sympathizers - the same systems destroying this planet and human lives with anti-nature technology"

Get your injection, Get your PCR test, Get into your Pod.

How brave! How "of nature"! How utterly hypocritical at the time when your ideals are firmly put to the test, and you not only failed, but pulled other sick, weak, and susceptible followers into the same pit of control.
All the while either conforming to the systems requirements for the sake of your "need" to stay in business of music or remaining violent in your silence rooted in compliance to the man's system of contempt for all of us actually free people's agency.

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