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There Is No More Evil In This World

from Yogi: Any Raw Flesh? by Shawn Farley

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My favorite song on the album. Inspired, if you can believe it, by Stone Temple Pilots's song "Trippin' On A Hole In A Paper Heart."

A lot of the songs on "Any Raw Flesh?" were written when I was deep in the grip of my King's X obsession, and it's pretty obvious. This was one of my first steps away from that paradigm, and it points to all sorts of interesting detours I was to take in the years after.

This was one of the hardest songs to mix, because there is SO MUCH STUFF going on. First albums are tough, because you want every nuance to be perfect, you want every single idea you had on every song to be perfectly audible, and everything has to be "just so." The lesson I learned from Darin back then is still very true now - sometimes, the idea you thought was so important doesn't even need to be there.

But it can take a LONG time to get to that place.

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Careful, watch just what you say
‘Cause somebody might repeat it
Did you wash your hands today?
Better hide that dirt before they find it

“We’ll break through, somehow, some way
We don’t tend to ask permission
We’ll erase or blur the lines
What else are they there for?”

Oh – you frighten me
“How can you question my thinking
when you know the source?”

“Hear, nor see nor evil speak
But if you do, pay up, we’ll fix it
Yes, we know what’s best for you
So shut up, sit back and take it!”

And I don’t know what I did
To deserve a close encounter with a zealot
Of the absurd kind

Hello, if you’re up there
Maybe you can take a little credit
For the ones who act in your name

Oh – you frighten me
Compromise isn’t a word that will enter your mind
Oh – enlighten me
Freedom of goes hand in hand with the freedom without

They won’t stop until…
There is no more evil in this world

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from Yogi: Any Raw Flesh?, released March 13, 2001
Words and music by Shawn Farley.

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