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"Manifesto" is the lead single from Muhammad Seven & The Spring's self-titled debut album.

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Manifesto

Next time they ask
You where you're from
You tell them
I'm from every god damn place
You're crushing with your thumb

Next time they ask
What kind of name
You tell them
It's the kind you're scared of
But I'll say it just the same

And if they wonder
Who you are
This time don't say nothing
You just pick up your guitar...

I...I...I...I...I...

I am
I am
I'm the poet
I'm the prophet
I'm the oil in the sand

I am
I am
I'm a menace
And this music
Is the weapon in my hand

I am
I am
I am everything you love
And I am everyone you've banned

Next time you speak
Don't bite your tongue
You can't let them keep pretending
That their deaf and that you're dumb

Sometimes the truth
Will make them mad
If they don't want to hear it, well
That's just too fucking bad

And if they make
your words a crime
Write your manifesto on the fabric of their minds

I am
I am
I’m a decorated sergeant
in the army of the damned

I am
I am
I'm the seventh son of Abraham,
No ordinary lamb

I am
I am
I’m remorse's dearest friend
But I'm redemption's biggest fan

I...I...I...I...I am the people
These are my demands

BRIDGE

All my life they told me
“Son, we make the rules
Know your station,
We don’t suffer fools

You'll always be an immigrant you'll never lose the stain"
But a stain is what I'm made of and this country's in my veins

credits

released February 26, 2019
Vocal harmonies: Kelly-Jo Reed
Bass: Pat Mussari
Lead vocals and acoustic guitar: Muhammad Seven 
Drums: Colin Lester Fleming
Lap steel guitar: Steve Saddler
Hammond Organ: Brooks Milgate
Santoor: Ali Karimi
Violin: Ludovica Burtone

Produced and mixed by Colin Lester Fleming at Herd Studio, Keep the Edge Studios and Q Division Studios
Single Art Photo courtesy of Danny Schissler

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Muhammad Seven & The Spring New York, New York

M7 is a blue collar Americana songwriter hailing from Boston, MA and currently living in the Finger Lakes region of New York. The son of an Iranian immigrant father and French-Canadian mother, he and his music were born in the fallout of the '79 Islamic Revolution and the Regan/Bush era, and draw influences from '60s protest music, '70s rock and roll, '80s pop, '90s hip hop and 20th century folk. ... more

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