“A thousand eyes are gazing down like bullet holes shot into the roof, as I lie here scratching for a grain of truth.”

— Tod A

"Balalaika", Get Off the Cross (We Need the Wood for the Fire (October 22, 1996).
Lyrics, Firewater

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American musician 1965

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