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Absolution

by The Delfino Trio

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1.
Draft '65 01:34
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2.
War 04:35
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In ’69 the headlines said recruits on the decline They said it’s time to send more to the frontline Conscription we want to shun Selective Service System Don’t draft me Calling me on TV, numbers choose my destiny It’s robbery, no-one wants to win this lottery Still too young to drink wine But old enough for doing time Don’t draft me The decision, the mission, stamp out communism In a country full of peasant citizens Genocide? Corporate lies? Or just neuroticism? Don’t draft me Mama, don’t make me go to war What are we fighting for? I don’t wanna go to war They’re banging on our door Wanting me to go to war Nothing to be fighting for We don’t need another war Please don’t make me go Oh, no no no no no Whoa-oh, no no no no no Rich family or a degree, so which one are you blessed to be? Stay home and free, LSD, smoking weed They take us poor, working class And induct us en masse Don’t draft me! Mama, don’t make me go to war What are we fighting for? I don’t wanna go to war They’re banging on our door Wanting me to go to war Nothing to be fighting for We don’t need another war Please don’t make me go Oh, no no no no no Whoa-oh, no no no no no
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Until This Song Is Over 04:23
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My dear family Been so long since I’ve seen you I’m with my troop of Marines Behind the DMZ as I’m writing to you I’m the FNG You don’t want to know what that means They all call me Cherry, they dirty up my greens And don’t seem to want me in the team Spent one day on the beaches But now I’m digging trenches Getting eaten by the leeches Can never stop the bleeding It rains here like a cyclone Bugs bite me when I’m down prone Get me back into your time zone I can’t wait ’til I get home But I’m gonna carry on Until this song is over Yes, I’m gonna sing along Until this song is over Say they don’t wanna die for me See me as a liability We’re always fighting back, but I don’t know what we’re shooting at Can’t even see the enemy They yell at me me to get down Because I always move around And I’m talking too loud Risk getting Charlie aroused But I’m gonna carry on Until this song is over Yes, I’m gonna sing along Until this song is over
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Hanoi Hannah 04:09
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On air three times a day Seems to know where we hide away Tries to lead us in disarray On fears and doubts she preys Brings news and songs from home Says we're surrounded and all alone Casualties from the combat zone Warns we're gonna need a gravestone Transistor dragon lady crackles to life Tells us of strife and our cheating girlfriends and wives She's always in the know, throw our boots at the radio She's always in the know, throw our beer cans at the radio She's always in the know, shoot our guns at the radio She's always in the know, Hanoi Hannah's on the radio She tells us our friends have died Tells us when more arrive Says that we won't survive Says we'll never get out alive That DJ wicked witch of the north Warns an artillery barrage is coming forth She's always in the know, throw our boots at the radio She's always in the know, throw our beer cans at the radio She's always in the know, shoot our guns at the radio She's always in the know, Hanoi Hannah's on the radio It seems our country also wants us deceived All this misinformation who do we believe? She's always in the know, throw our boots at the radio She's always in the know, throw our beer cans at the radio She's always in the know, shoot our guns at the radio She's always in the know, Hanoi Hannah's on the radio She's always in the know, and yet another fuse will blow She's always in the know, when Hanoi Hannah's on the radio
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China Beach 03:06
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6.
Dear John 03:46
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“Dear John” started her letter We could no more be together As she met another fella a while ago I started basic training But then she started dating I thought that she’d be waiting there when I got home What did I know? Oh, what did I know? He’s a got a draft deferral From a college referral To avoid the Yellow Peril, he’s a fortunate son I feel numbed by her betrayal So shameful and so painful I’m in mud up to the navel with a machine gun I guess I’m done. Oh, yes, I’m done Well, I didn’t see it coming Her loving, oh, so cunning Was she only bluffing me? I was sent to serve my country But going home to nothing I’ve lost my homecoming queen Dear Johnny “Dear Jane” I wrote her “Remind me who you were” “Too many to remember, it’s all just a blur” Bet she didn’t see that coming Her letter, oh, so cutting My loving was worth nothing it seems I was sent to serve my country And now I have no worries The girls here they’re more stunning to me Go, Johnny
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Metro-a-Go-Go 03:30
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Rest and recreation Taking leave vacation Cyclo-Taxi from the station in the big city Walking round the streets It’s so hard to be discreet With the endless smiles sweet “Buy me Saigon Tea?” “Hey, you, Number One” “Come inside and have some fun” A look at her and I was won “you pay me MPC” At the pool and card tables With a Carling Black Label Jimi on the turntable Can’t get one for free At the Palace Continental Full of beauties Oriental Another cigarette essential and a “33” Creedence played by the band As the go-go girlies dance Miniskirts and hotpants mesmerising me Time to let the beer flow (At Metro-a-Go-Go) Fluorescent colours aglow (At Metro-a-Go-Go) There’s a place that I know (Just down on Tu Do) Called Metro-a-Go-Go (Yeah, Metro-a-Go-Go) Let’s go! Her face so radiant Her scent so fragrant She could win a beauty pageant “but cost many P” She said “upstairs, let’s go” How could I say no? But I’ve run out of dough “don’t be Cheap Charlie!” Time to let the beer flow (At Metro-a-Go-Go) Fluorescent colours aglow (At Metro-a-Go-Go) There’s a place that I know (Just down on Tu Do) Called Metro-a-Go-Go (Yeah, Metro-a-Go-Go) Let’s go!
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Fields of White Gold 01:17
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9.
Fields of Fire 04:26
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In the heat getting woozy, hack our way through the Boonies Machetes ploughing our path Our platoon turning looney, acting kooky and screwy From smoking way too much grass Get us higher, in the paddy expanse Our Zippo lighters, lost in a trance Shots barely miss us, sniper fire from a distance From those hooches there made of thatch So much rice for so few, who they hiding from view? Drop a grenade right down the hatch Light a fire, we’re looking askance Our Zippo lighters, taking no chance Losing our concerns as another reefer burns Here in these fields of fire All our heads will turn as another village burns Here in these fields of fire Civilians or military, just who is our enemy? Now, could it be that old man? Insurgents infiltrate, use peasants as bait Look the same, they’re all wearing rags Let’s ignite her, we’re looking askance Our Zippo lighters, taking no chance All our heads will turn as another village burns Here in these fields of fire Diminishing returns as another village burns Here in these fields of fire Impossible to know friend or foe in the throe So our lighters are not only for tobacco, no So no-one ever learns as another village burns Here in these fields of fire Losing our concerns as another reefer burns Here in these fields of fire All our heads will turn as another village burns Here in these fields of fire Losing our concerns as another reefer burns Here in these fields of fire All our heads will turn as another village burns Here in these fields of fire Impossible to know friend or foe in the throe So our lighters are not only for tobacco, no So no-one ever learns as another village burns Here in these fields of fire
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Riding Shotgun 04:16
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Now we’ve taken the hill Ditch the white pills and chill in the greenery And now we gather the team Load up the green and take in the scenery Watch the setting sun Senses overcome Zoned out riding shotgun And now we’ve taken the beach To the stars we reach as all the boys gather Seeing the mountains and streams Kaleidoscope dream, the lysergic acid Watch the setting sun All the colours they run Senses overcome Zoned out riding shotgun Keep passing that shotgun Now in our bunkers we cower Melting the powder, escaping the madness It’s striking us hard like a viper Riding the tiger and chasing the dragon Watch the setting sun Consciousness numbed Senses overcome Zoned out riding shotgun Watch the setting sun All the colours they run Senses overcome Zoned out riding shotgun Keep passing that shotgun
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Contact! 04:03
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12.
Psychonaut Express 07:42
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Floating down through the clouds Darkness is all around Hear no sound, gagged and bound Don't crash into the ground Knock down walls, perception doors Rising up from the floor See with open eyes, hear with new fresh ears Invalidate all life's fears Sailing a sea of consciousness Riding the psychonaut express Float in the womb free from life's tomb Immune from impending doom Sailing a sea of consciousness Maybe just pseudoscience? Or is this pure avoidance? Psychonaut express Is this just pseudoscience? Or a new wave of clairvoyance? Or is this just annoyance? Psychonaut express The psychonaut express Mere words cannot express The psychonaut express
13.
Intelligent Life 04:31
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Millions of lightyears of flight We find a pale blue light With the remotest of signs of intelligent life Our excitement soon turned to fear As we travelled ever near Our studies soon made it clear it's people cavalier How will the creatures survive in a world where mass destruction is rife? This planet can it not be revived when it's riddled with chaos, desolation and strife? What happened to those signs of intelligent life? One species out of its mind Kills and enslaves its own kind Subjugates all that it finds over time Now infested their entire sphere These beings, oh, so cavalier All creatures run and hide in fear and disappear How will the creatures survive in a world where mass destruction is rife? This planet can it not be revived when it's riddled with chaos, desolation and strife? What happened to those signs of intelligent life? How will the creatures survive in a world where mass destruction is rife? This planet can it not be revived when it's riddled with chaos and strife? How will the creatures survive in a world where mass destruction is rife? This planet can it not be revived when it's riddled with chaos, desolation and strife? What happened to those signs of intelligent life? Should we tell them we've arrived or shall we just euthanise?
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Beautifully Bizarre 05:13
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Messages from a distant past Light up the sky at night History there in a free telecast Beamed to us at the speed of light To look up is to look back in time Our past is written in the skies To our world for now we may be confined But ties unbind as we get more wise Searching - In darkness we peer With open eyes the truth becomes clear Exploring - In darkness we peer We’re lost in wonder and not in fear We are the children of the cosmos So far, the only living outpost, so far we are the beautifully bizarre The deeper you dig the harder it gets More difficult and more complex Scientific scrutiny, balances and checks Find the truth in all of the nonsense Creation is mythology, trust in astronomy Evolution has no disproof It’s written in geology, found in archeology Our ancestry has been proved Searching - turn your mind on Science shines the light of reason Exploring - turn your mind on Floods the darkness of superstition We are the children of the cosmos Sons and daughters of a trillion stars So far, the only living outpost Savour how lucky we all are, so far we are the beautifully bizarre We are the children of the cosmos Sons and daughters of a trillion stars So far, the only living outpost Savour how lucky we all are We are the children of the cosmos Sons and daughters of a trillion stars So far, the only living outpost Savour how lucky we all are, so far we are the beautifully bizarre
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The Tears of Love 05:20
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The heart lies dormant in a tomb of stone Lost for 1,000 years, location unknown Off the chart, it’s shrouded in the mists of time Preserved in brine and all alone The tomb lies buried under metres of sand Lost in the desert, in the dry of the land X marks the spot, I follow the path on the map The mummy is wrapt, and on remand I’m out here looking for affirmation And cry the tears of love Desolation in all directions I cry the tears of love The sand lies still beneath an ocean of stars Clouds and constellations and the Moon lit by Mars The starry sky whizzing by and it lights up the night It gives me insight, and heals the scars I’m out here searching for absolution And cry the tears of love Looking everywhere for resolution I cry the tears of love The heart lies beating in a cage of bone Our flesh and blood from Mother Nature on loan Look at the sky and see why we are never alone Inside us the universe is home So now I see the revelation And cry the tears of love I see it is no aberration And cry the tears of love
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It's a Beautiful Life 04:47
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Did you read the news today? Good love has come my way Blown away those Monday blues And clouds of grey Blue skies opening my eyes Butterflies as the stars arise Hypnotised by the moonlit night And the fireflies Breathing and dreaming It's a beautiful life without you Such a beautiful life through and through In the dark for, oh, so long Wondering where I went wrong I've moved along, I've come on song And now I've gone All around me positivity All I see is all the greenery Mesmerised by the scenery And the harmony Dreaming and breathing It's a beautiful life without you Such a beautiful life through and through Waking, I'm seeing the love that we're making I'm living life now for the taking, I'll fly It's a beautiful life without you Such a beautiful life through and through And no need to be blue It's a beautiful life Such a beautiful life through and through No, I'm not blue Starting anew Without you

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"Absolution" is an ambitious concept album, which our favourite retro-rock connoisseur Cameron MacDonald​ says is a "superb pastiche. Massively impressive. Great performances. Good songs. A Vietnam War mini series would kill for this soundtrack".

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released May 22, 2020

Written, performed, mixed, mastered, etc, by The Delfino Trio (featuring original radio stagers, station IDs and jingles by the American Forces Vietnam Network).

Art: David Belcastro.

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