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Wasted the Day (Demo)

from Resistance [EP] by Miel Noir & Changes

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The final version of “Wasted the Day” was released on the album “Defiance” by Miel Noir & Changes.

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lyrics

"The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. It is its natural manure."
Thomas Jefferson to W. S. Smith, 13 November 1787

Verse:
So thirsty for many years
But the calls fell on deaf ears
Thus always (1) – to water the tree (2)
But you thought you’d keep it all for free

Chorus:
Squandered away
What they left you to hold and to guard
An oath to betray

Squandered away
The ruins all ashen and charred
Just wasted the day

"If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be."
Thomas Jefferson to Colonel Charles Yancey, 6 January 1816

Never thought it would fall
Never thought you’d lose it all
Didn’t heed the gun – advise (3)
Didn’t want to pay the price

Chorus:
Squandered away
What they left you to hold and to guard
An oath to betray

Squandered away
The ruins all ashen and charred
Just wasted the day


"To attain all this, however, rivers of blood must yet flow, and years of desolation pass over; yet the object is worth rivers of blood, and years of desolation."
Thomas Jefferson to John Adams, 4 September 1823

Verse:
Dissolution (4) – but just for you
And all your power they took that too
No rights to claim (5) – just bend the knee
You broke the axiom of liberty (6)

Chorus:
Squandered away
What they left you to hold and to guard
An oath to betray

Squandered away
The ruins all ashen and charred
Just wasted the day

What’s left to say
But a curse to the end of the earth
To see their decay

What’s left to say
If there are any left of some worth
Somehow make them pay

“I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.”
Thomas Jefferson to John Adams, August 1, 1816



Footnotes:
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(1) Sic semper tyrannis -> thus always to tyrants
(2) The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. (Thomas Jefferson)
(3) As to the species of exercise, I advise the gun. (Thomas Jefferson)
(4) When the representative body have lost the confidence of their constituents, when they have notoriously made sale of their most valuable rights, when they have assumed to themselves powers which the people never put into their hands, then indeed their continuing in office becomes dangerous to the state, and calls for an exercise of the power of dissolution. (Thomas Jefferson)
(5) A free people [claim] their rights, as derived from the laws of nature, and not as the gift of their chief magistrate. (Thomas Jefferson)
(6) It is an axiom in my mind, that our liberty can never be safe but in the hands of the people themselves, and that too of the people with a certain degree of instruction. This it is the business of the State to effect, and on a general plan. (Thomas Jefferson)

credits

from Resistance [EP], released December 23, 2022
Music by Widar. Lyrics by Marcel P.

Widar - Guitars, keyboards, percussions
Nicholas Tesluk - Vocals, guitars
Marcel P. - Vocals, bass

Original quotes by Thomas Jefferson
(Founding Father and third president of the U.S.A.)

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Miel Noir started out as the solo-project of Dimo Dimov. Later Marcel P. joined the project.

Ever since, Miel Noir has undergone a radical expansion, turning it from an experimental 1-man-project into a full-blown band, covering a wide variety of styles.

The first album of Miel Noir as a band, HONEY & ASH, was released by Steinklang Industries in 2011 ... more

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