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In the midst of the glee and excitement that any good public hanging brings out, the aforementioned gang of marauding hicks does what they usually do: start fighting amongst themselves. This gives our hero the opportunity to do what Christ probably should have done: run away and give up on humanity. The End of the World as We Know It starts as a redneck fight at an impromptu lynching and eventually leads to full scale nuclear war as the thin veneer of civilization falls away and humanity reveals itself to be just slightly more articulate monkeys flinging slightly more sophisticated forms of feces at each other.

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THE MADNESS OF CROWDS

Standing on the platform, mere seconds from the noose,
they've written words on my chest (and misspelled most of them).
A list of all my crimes for all the mob to see,
like the crime of being aware
and the crime of paying too much attention.

Trash flies from the mob, it skitters at my feet.
A bottle hits the ankle of the thug restraining me.
He does a little dance while bellowing in pain,
and loosens up his grip just enough for me to fall.

I fall to the platform (which buckles under my weight),
while the thug runs to his target and punches him in the face.
The punch becomes a fight, the fight becomes a brawl,
the brawl becomes a riot, soon to become a war...I run away.

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from The Quiet Earth Orchestra, released February 19, 2008
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John Ludi Madison, Wisconsin

John Ludi is a musician/singer-songwriter with a wide array of influences and lyrical interests who was "Indie" before the term even existed. Working outside of the music industry by choice has given Ludi the ability to release songs of a level of lyrical depth that are anathema to the minds of the "suits". Ludi lives off-grid in a yurt in the woods of WI and will "fight the power" til he dies. ... more

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