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My father had a country
But the government was taken
Their citizens forsaken
By the dignity of God

When a holy man in exile
Put a bullet through the Peacock Throne
My father fled to San Anton
With the puppet master's daughter

He had been rich
Ain't rich no more
They made money from the
Spoils of a long forgotten war

So he moved to California
in the ass crack of the '80s
With his wife and little babies
For to start his life again

A bitter taste was tethered
to his tongue by revolution
And his immigrant solution
Was to rent an ice cream parlor

It would be sweet
Cold piece of mind
He made flavors from the memories of a home he left behind

California Sour Cherries
Pomegranate
Bastani
Watermelon
And persimmons
Color his American dream

Mama scooped the flavors
While my sister helped him churn 'em
Me, I didn't want to learn
'cause I was playing my guitar

As Reagan turned to Clinton
He and I began to argue
One day it went too far
and he told me to hit the highway

My mother cried
He yelled some more
I stopped to kiss my little sister as I headed for the door

I left the Westwood hills and caught a ride to Massachusetts
Sometimes the home you choose
Is not a home you'll ever love

Now 20 years I've labored
On a garbage truck in Boston
And late at night I'm lost in
Rock and roll and smoky bars

The Distorted whine
Of my Silvertone
When the sun sets in the west I close my eyes and think of home...

California Sour Cherries
Pomegranate
Bastani

Watermelon
And persimmons
Color my American dream

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from Muhammad Seven & The Spring, released March 26, 2019

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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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