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Monuments

from Stone by Stone by Tret Fure

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We live in a country where we don't look closely at our history of enslavement and we tend to immortalize the Civil work through monuments and statues. It is something that is finally changing, I hope.

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Tear down the walls
Tear down the monuments
To end ignorance
Is our main pursuit
Take away the hatred
Take away the arrogance
Why can’t we all focus on truth

Some say the past is the past
That it’s no longer real
But that only opens wounds
That have never healed
The result is the same
Whether by force or a sleepy driver
We all are complicit
In the face of the survivors

Tear down the walls
Tear down the monuments
To end ignorance
Is our main pursuit
Take away the hatred
Take away the arrogance
Why can’t we all focus on truth

Each generation has questions
Where they find different ends
To make sense of a world
On which their life depends
So much goes unsaid
When the saying is imperative
How do we find our voice
In this ever changing narrative

Chorus

As old as the civil war
As new as black lives matters
Society disrupted
Democracy in tatters
Celebrated by some
And detested by others
In the end we must remember
We’re all sisters and brothers

Chorus

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from Stone by Stone, released November 3, 2020
Tret - vocals, guitar
Mark Goldstien - bass, piano
Janelle Burdell - drums, percussion
Cathy Fink - banjo

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Tret Fure Newport News, Virginia

Tret Fure began her career at 16, singing in coffeehouses in the Midwest. At 19 , she moved to LA and within a year was performing as guitarist and vocalist for Spencer Davis, penning the single for his album “Mousetrap”.  In 1973 she recorded her first solo album on MCA/UNI Records, with Lowell George of Little Feat as her producer. 
Tret has released 16 acclaimed albums in her long career..
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