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We're All We Have

by Divine Weeks

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Fight for Love 04:31
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FIGHT FOR LOVE Love is love is love is love is love… You stand up there looking down below, You say it louder, does that make it so? You pander to a god that you don’t love Why are you trying to blow us up? I am a child of god just like you, I pray to the same god you’re praying to You demonize me like I’ve got leprosy, But your Jesus is not ashamed to walk with me. ch. You look down on me from above, in the face of hate, Will you fight for us? And fight for love? Love... If you’ve got a heart, why don’t you show me? I know you hate me ‘cos you don’t know me. But you don’t know me ‘cos you hate me Why won’t you come down and face me? ch. You look down on me from above, in the face of hate Will you fight for us? And fight for love? Love...because love is love is love is love. I’m talking to you… Fight for Love…. Right now!
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We're All in One & One in All 03:35
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WE’RE ALL IN ONE & ONE IN ALL Every night my baby and I, we sit and watch the world unraveling We can’t believe what’s happening. But if a fight is what you want, well, then a fight is what will be ‘Cos we won’t take this on our knees. ch. No, we can’t wait on Judgment Day ‘Cos there’s gonna be hell to pay. I believe that we can shine like stars light up the night And don’t you know that only love can bridge this deep divide? Those you try to demonize are the keepers of the dream We’ve got to reclaim who we’ve been. Me and my soldier girl, we hold fast and fight for love Now you’ll see what we’re made of. ch. We’re all in one and one in all -- for all And one for all and all for one -- for all ‘Cos all in all is all we really are… ch.
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Don't Get Caught on the Wrong Side of History 06:00
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DON’T GET CAUGHT ON THE WRONG SIDE OF HISTORY Oh beautiful, land of wonders, we’ve come to save you from those thieves. You know, we used to be the dream that dreamers dreamed, No, they won’t bring us to our knees. I’ve got black eyes from all I’ve seen, I just can’t believe my ears. They divide us and demonize us, distract and prey upon our fears. ch. Oh, we all rise up to our feet From sea to shining sea So, lift the lamp of mercy… Or get caught on the wrong side of history. We all looked up to see that shining city, but the light has gone out on that hill. Resist and dissent, you’re not our president, and you won’t bend us to your will… No you won’t! ch. Time now to leave behind the old world Come with us now and join the future. In my heart of my heart, in my soul of my soul Gonna keep fighting ‘til the day they roll me Love will light the darkness tonight. In the sky of the sky, in the root of the root Deep in the soil of the truth of truth Love will light the darkness tonight. So come on sisters and come on brothers We can still save the land of wonders Love will light the darkness tonight. We’re the gays and the dreamers and the Muslims and Jews And the ones that do the work that you’re too good to do Love will light the darkness tonight. So, listen to us now, a new day’s begun Gonna keep marching ‘til the victory’s won Love will light the darkness tonight.
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The Indomitable Force of Love 03:41
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THE INDOMITABLE FORCE OF LOVE I dreamed the nightmare was over, I still had my heart on my sleeve…we were Reunited with the Mother of Exiles and our humanity. Then a voice on the TV woke me, I knew then what I had to do. The only thing to me that matters is holding on to you. ch. Come to me baby, don’t you worry. I won’t let you go…I’m the one who guards your soul. Calling all rebel lovers out there, hate is too great a burden to bear. We’ve seen this kind of hatred before, something we already fought and died for. Here I stand with my brothers, my child, mother and lover, And if this is our last song that’s sung, let’s all sing it as one. ch. What’s all this blood and toil over empires of sand? Because when the lights go out…we’re all we have. ch Come to me baby, don’t you worry. I won’t let you go…I’m the one who guards your soul. I’m always with you, always inside you. No matter how far you roam…I’m the one who guards your soul.
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Soldier Girl 05:54
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SOLDIER GIRL Our love is storming like the ocean, let the waves crash down on me And our love is beyond our knowing…it’s all a mystery. I feel your body move beneath me, I feel your breath mixed with mine. You are the only thing to me holy…nothin’ in this world more divine. Be brave little solider girl, it’s us against the world Oh my little solider girl…it’s us against the world. ch. All my life, I’ve been running, I was nothing, you made me something. The future’s not what it used to be…we’re holding on to love desperately. Oh, my little soldier girl…it’s us against the world. In our refuge, hallowed haven, we lose our minds and find our souls. Dancing from the inside out, we speak a language all our own. I love to love you, a love sublime, I can’t get you out of my mind. You smiled and put your little paw into my hand, We take a leap a faith that won’t ever land. ch. Be brave little solider girl It’s us against the world Oh, my little soldier girl It’s us against the world. Come on now, take my hand, the whole world’s gone mad. We’ve gotta hold on to each other because we’re all we have.
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Too Much Beauty 05:01
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TOO MUCH BEAUTY I shuffle through the crowded halls, looks like I’m lost in a dream. No one sees me at all, but not everything’s what it seems. Some days I’m right here, and on other days I’m gone. I don’t know where it is I go, or how I manage to hold on. I’m counting numbers in my head, my OCD goes 1, 2, 3. And no matter how hard I try some things can’t be unseen. And it’s not that I don’t see all this joy and beauty, But it’s just too much to bear…it all seems so fleeting. ch. Well, this world has way too much beauty, I can’t take it all inside. Some of us feel too much, so we lie And all the while I just smile and say that it's all right. Well, the hours turn into days, and the nights feel like years. The carousel keeps on spinning, it’s all dread and fear. You’ll remember my smile, and that note I wrote for you. You’ll get a lot of questions, and you’ll say you thought you knew. ch. Now all the eyes are on me, above me, thoughts and prayers And songs of comfort and mercy ring hollow through the air. Maybe now you’ll understand, I couldn’t go on living a lie Maybe now I can be who I am…on the other side. Well, the world had way too much beauty, just too much to take inside But no one can hurt me now… I keep telling myself, it’s gonna be all right. Well, the world had way too much beauty, I thought this was paradise But it’s all an illusion to me now… So, I keep telling myself, it’s gonna be all right.
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Darkness Brings Out the Light in Me 03:47
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DARKNESS BRINGS OUT THE LIGHT IN ME I got a call today, a stranger says he’s dying and wants to meet me. And now he says he needs me, but I don’t need him to complete me. ch. Don’t come around here and tell me now that you wanna be my father And if you thought you destroyed me, now, it only made me stronger So long, and get thee gone… Now nothing frightens me ‘cos darkness brings out the light in me Nothing frightens me…darkness brings out the light in me. I’d vowed to God and to the stars that I would never become who you are. And now as I take my stand, I’m the father that I never had. ch: Don’t come around here and tell me now that you wanna be my father And if you thought you destroyed me, now, it only made me stronger So long -- and get thee gone… Now nothing frightens me ‘cos darkness brings out the light in me Nothing frightens me…darkness brings out the light in me
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Every Little Once in a While 04:58
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EVERY LITTLE ONCE IN A WHILE Through the darkness, I passed through you and came into this world. You gave me my voice to sing out, now listen, my soul is stirred. You gave me these crazy feelings, they go down deep as the sea. But you showed me how to take the sadness and turn it into some beauty. ch. I’m looking down that road again, I can see for miles and miles I know that’s you when that song comes on as I roll on down the line So just let me know that you’re still out there -- every little once in a while. I watched you speeding toward me, I reached out, but you went racing by. You turned me into the father, and you became the child. ch. Then one night a dream came to me, I was five and you were still young and wild. You spun me around and ‘round and ‘round and ‘round…underneath a diamond sky. Then I watched you dance into the light. ch. I’m looking down that road again, I can see for miles and miles Every time that song comes on, it just tears me up inside So just let me know that you’re still out there -- every little once in a while. Every little once in a while…
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Love is a Mixtape 04:15
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LOVE IS A MIXTAPE I’ve been sitting on something, it’s time that you knew Love is a mixtape, I made one for you. If you wanna know me, just listen to Nina Simone And that high lonesome of George Jones. If you’re feeling lonely, feeling like there’s no one around Just listen to Aretha make a joyful sound. ch. Just gimme your love, just gimme your love Just gimme your love, just give me your… I’ve been trying to tell you what’s really going on inside, But I’m scared if you knew you’d probably run and hide. You tell me the world is heavy and your heart feels like a ton I just want you to know you’re not the only one. If you’re feeling lonely, feeling like you can’t go on Just listen to my heart beat in this song. ch. No one knows what I’m feeling, it’s like holding oceans inside. I only know one way to tell you…these songs could save your life. You opened your heart to me, straight down to your soul All the beautiful heartbreak no one saw before. We went out riding around singing songs in your car. We sang for our sanity rolling under the stars. Just gimme your love, just gimme your love…
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Holes 04:40
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HOLES I only know one way to love you, I only know one way to feel With all the madness in my soul, you’re the only thing that’s real. We’ll shine like silvery comets, won’t you come and lift me up? I wanna feel as deep as the ocean, love is love is love is love is love… ch. Well, I’ve got this hole inside, I see you’ve got one too. Yours is shaped like me and mine’s like you. I was just whipping in the breeze ‘til you stepped out of my dreams Then something was awakened, you lit the darkness in me. The carousel is spinning in my head, I need you more than the sun and the wind. I can’t live with or without you, you’re like Jesus and heroin. ch. Your lighthouse eyes guide me through this tempest sea. Brilliant, blinding, colors colliding unto me. I was lost out in the twilight, my heart riddled with holes I was a stranger, you took me in, I’ve got nowhere left to go. I know you don’t need me like the way I’m desperate for you But there’s no one in this whole fuckin’ world who loves you like I do. ch. This petty world can’t stop us now. ‘Cos our love will go on and on and on and on and on…
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Hold on to Love in a World Gone Mad 03:47
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HOLD ON TO LOVE IN A WORLD GONE MAD In my dream I keep falling, and I cannot speak, I roam a hall of mirrors, but I can’t find my feet. The future dangles by a thread that we’re hanging on to As we wait for the old to pass and all the things turn new. ch. They say this too will pass and this too will change And so, we’ll let it all go and see what remains. Oh my sweet lovie baby, we’re all we have We’ve got to hold on to love in a world gone mad Fear, it goes down easy, but it makes you so cruel. It makes you do the kind of things you vowed you won’t do. We’ve only this moment, may our songs be sung About the world before the world when all the souls were one. ch. They say this too will pass and this too will change And so, we’ll let it all go and see what remains. Oh my sweet lovie baby, we’re all we have We’ve got to hold on to love in a world gone mad Oh my sweet lovie baby, we’re all we have We’ve got to hold on to love in a world gone mad.

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The new and final ever record from long time L.A. underground band, Divine Weeks, is a heart on the sleeve, desperate two hand reach to reclaim America's humanity.

LINER NOTES:
On July 16, 2017, we gathered in a little room in Culver City to start writing this record. Before long, it became impossible to ignore the divisiveness and inhumanity pervading our country. We’d go home and watch the news with the ones we love, and we’d all feel the uneasiness in the air and like things were unraveling and slipping beyond our control. When that happens, it’s tempting to give in to the kind of hate that closes your heart, and it can turn you into someone you’d vowed you’d never be. You can lose yourself in that kind of darkness. But you gotta hold on tight to who you really are and to the ones you love. Because at the end of the day, we’re all we have.

Over the last year, there’s been plenty to get angry about, and while anger is an energy that fuels a lot of great rock and roll, we were instead drawn to the dauntless idea of two people holding on to love and humanity in a world gone mad. Because the fight for the preservation of the soul of a nation begins with the resolve to love one another, through and through. That’s what’s at the heart of this record.

For a couple of months we searched for an identity for the record. Then during a long improvisational jam at the end of a rehearsal last September, the framework for “Don’t Get Caught on the Wrong Side of History” came…a song that would very much inform the writing for the rest of the record. At its core, it’s a song about love of country, not for the one it’s become, but for what it is at its best and for maybe what it could be again. America, the land of wonders…the dream where dreamers dream. This record was inspired by those who have used art, comedy, ingenuity and love to remind us all of that America and the crucial task it is of reclaiming it. This is our little contribution to that end.

But that’s not all this record is. There’s a song about making mixtapes for someone because sometimes music is the only way to say how you feel. There’s a song for a mother. Another for a father. Another about how hard it is to see someone who’s trying to disappear until it’s too late. And another about loving someone so much it feels like a kind of sublime madness.

We still believe in the redemptive powers of love and music. And we still believe in the audacious choice to fight the darkness of inhumanity with light and love and joy. In the face of hate, fight for love. Come join the future. We need you.

Love is love is love is love.
~ Divine Weeks, 10/2/18

credits

released November 9, 2018

Raj Makwana: All Guitars
Bill See: Vocals, Harmonica
Dave Smerdzinski: Drums, Percussion
Steve Soto: Bass

Produced by Divine Weeks
Recorded & Mixed at Grandma’s Warehouse Studio, Echo Park, CA June 2 - October 2, 2018
Engineered by Andrew Bush
Mastered at The SoundLab

Photos: Oleg Bolotov & Devan Makwana
Artwork: Anita Maya

Melody Muraca: vocals on “Fight for Love,” “Soldier Girl,” “Love is a Mixtape,” and “Darkness Brings Out The Light In Me”

The D.W. Choir on “Don’t Get Caught on the Wrong Side of History” & “Holes” is: Carolyn Felden, Greg Franco, Kathleen Hayes, Ron Jolly, Tania Jolly, Cindy Maya, Lisa Muraca,
Melody Muraca, Doug Nyland, Evie Sands, Laura Smith, Steve Soto, Dave Soyars, Neal Weiss & Dean Westerfield

Special Thanks & Gratitude to the Inner Circle:
Devan Makwana, Cindy Maya, Maeve Yates Mayfield, Shannon Smerdzinski, Kimberlie Traceski & Susan Harper Yates

Eternal Thanks to:
Ericka Acker, Ned Acker, Erin Amar, Abe Abdelhadi, Tyler Alexis, Don Bechtel, Marie Bechtel, Sandy Behar, Howard Behar, Randy Bird, Oleg Bolotov, Jennie Brook, Akshay Chudasama, Bina Chudasama, Sejal Chudasama, Priscilla De Leon, Mick DiMaria, Mary Ann DiMaria, Peder Draxton, Shawna Draxton, Hazel-Dawn Dumpert, Greg Franco, Fret House, Corrie Gregory, Conrad Heiney, Kris Homsher, Ron Jolly, Tania Jolly, Mimi Kent, Rick Kent, Joy Knapp, Mike Lawrence, Matt Mahler, Gita Makwana, Kanti Makwana, Haresh Makwana, Anita Maya, Maureen McElroy, Dennis Mehaffey, Neal Mendelsohn, Nancy Yates Mekelburg, Lynda Modaff, Colleen Morrissey, Jennifer Ann Mortimer, Melody Muraca, Doug Nyland, Juan Ojeda, Veronica Ojeda, Steve O’Laughlin, Jay Parmar, The Praties, Casey Riddle, Roccaforte Amplification, Mark Sanderson, Doug Schoemer, Chris Skura, Christy Skura, Laura Smith, Robert Sobul, Dave Soyars, Eric Steinberg, Ivey Steinberg, Pat Thomas, Jennifer Traceski, Shane Traceski, Matt Volpe, Kenny Wagner, Amy Washburn, Neal Weiss, Jeff Weiss, Dean Westerfield, Scott Weston, Ed Whitelock, Drew Wicks, Steve Wynn, 13th Street Guitar

Always and forever, to our brother: George Edmondson

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Named one of the 15 best unsigned bands by the L.A. Times, Divine Weeks were signed to Dream Syndicate's Steve Wynn's Down There label releasing debut "Through & Through" in '87. In '91 they released "Never Get Used To It." After a lengthy hiatus, singer Bill See's memoir "33 Days" was the catalyst to reforming & releasing "See Those Landing Lights" & the politically charged "We're All We Have" ... more

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