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No People Are Supreme

from Harmonium by Patrick Ames

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Track 1: No People Are Supreme

The refrain came in an instant. I don’t know from where but maybe a result of my constant doom-scrolling on the mobile. World news is tough to digest but one message kept coming back during these dark times: no people were supreme. After the first take it started to sound like the Doors and then it became a magnet for more similes as we progressed. I put in some trippy lyrics for 1960’s Jim Morrison, and Jon Ireson, the producer, piled on with vinyl record scratches to start the track. But Jon’s instrumentation is both present and supportive, a difficult task with such subject matter. At the end I wanted to showcase the refrain and its ability to make the listener sing the words, repeat the phrase, and make it true if only by repetition. To be frank, I wish this had been written so many decades ago – maybe it would have done some good by now.

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- No People Are Supreme-
© 2022 by Patrick Ames.
It’s time to show up for this democracy
It’s time to wake up No people are supreme It’s time to show up It’s time to see
<Your spirit binds thee>
It’s time to show up for this democracy
<Your spirit binds thee>
Your spirit it binds thee
Your spirit it binds thee
It’s tie to show up It’s time to see It’s time to ban the hate
That Keeps us from being free
<Your spirit binds thee Your spirit binds thee>
No people are supreme No people are supreme No people are supreme No people are supreme No people
No people
No people
No people are supreme

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from Harmonium, released June 1, 2022
Patrick Ames: Guitars and vocals
Jon Ireson: Bass, Guitars, Keyboards, Programming, Producer
Chana Matthews: Backup vocals

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