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I Write My Name

from Everybody Wants My Hat by Marc Black

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Visiting some of the Holocaust memorials brought up many feelings. I wrote this song walking along the sidewalk right after one such visit.

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I am Hutu in Rwanda
Secret Jew in Berlin
40 years in the desert
On a crazy promise

Diseased I fight the cure
A wealthy donor to the cause
This bird of prey can’t satisfy his hunger

Labeled nigger by Jim Crow
Bourgeois in the days of Mao
Always running. Always seeking shelter

From the soot that tell the tale
All our damaged dreams
I write my name with my finger in this filth

CHORUS:
And I write my name
I write my name
Look, see… Over and over and over again
I write my name
In this devil game

My song dying to be sung
Your dress never quite undone
Wallflower still waiting to be deadly

This news so old
Long ago grown cold
Flatters me, I see my face in that mirror

CHORUS:
As I write my name
I write my name
Look, see… Over and over and over again
I write my name
In this devil game

deal me in I say out loud
surprised by my own voice
I see no no choice
I take my chances

I feign shock today
As it all slips away
I raise both hands
In a sign of surrender

CHORUS:
But I write my name
I write my name
Look, see… Over and over and over again
I write my name
Keep me in this devil game

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from Everybody Wants My Hat, released April 30, 2021

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Marc Black Katonah, New York

Marc plays a finger style blues in the traditions of Mississippi Hurt and the great Tim Hardin. Right up to Covid, he was a proud road warrior, inducted into the New York Chapter of the Blues Hall of Fame in June of 2014. As WFUV DJ, John Platt wrote about Marc. "We need to hear his songs now more than ever." ... more

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