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On land that was never ours. In a country we refused to touch.
Create the words that mean no thing (enemy combatant).
Men become animals become nothing.
Steel shacks, steel traps, shackled beneath black hoods, orange jumpsuits.
Far from Geneva, close to shame, does your mother know how you
spend your days? Does she know how easy it is to simulate drowning
for the hundredth time? Does she know you dream about it now?
Does she know you dream about it every night?
If you lock a man in a room for six years will he emerge a man?
Will he ever learn how to forgive? Will he ever learn how to live again?
And O Guantanamo Bay. Life is a game we play.
Everyone has a dark side, but not everyone wins.

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from Spirit Animal, track released June 2, 2011
Tony Presley- guitar, vocals
Spencer Lee- guitar
Joel Bunch- bass
Dan Dean- drums

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Real Live Tigers Austin, Texas

Letters read aloud over AM radio, quiet guitar through motel room walls, loud electric guitar in summer basements, gravel parking lots in the rain, train sounds.

Real Live Tigers has had many line-ups since 2004. The project was started by Tony Presley and is often him solo, either on classical guitar or electric, but has been as many as 8 people crammed together on a tiny stage.
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