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Xiu Xiu – Guantanamo canto (2008) | Track profile | Dork

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Xiu Xiu
Women as Lovers
Guantanamo canto

TRACK

Guantanamo canto

Release date: 29th January 2008

From Women as Lovers

Track 5

2:37

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About This Track

"Guantanamo canto" is a track by Xiu Xiu, from the album Women as Lovers, released 29th January 2008. The track is 2:37 long. It's filed under Rock. Full lyrics are available below.

About the Artist

Xiu Xiu

Xiu Xiu

Lyrics

Guantanamo canto

Confess, tied to a stretcher
No longer animal
Red white and blue, choking on peace

Your suicide, his politics
Nay misery
My country needs this freedom
To contradict your humanness

Meow meow meow meow
La la
Now we are safe
Now we are safe
You'll never know how you've made us safe
And your son grows to kill us all
We say thank you complicity
Your daughter grows to kill us all
And we say thanks to ease our shame

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Track details

From Women as Lovers

2:372008

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Album

Women as Lovers

29th January 2008

Track number

5

Release year

2008

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5Guantanamo canto

2:37

6Under Pressure ( Feat. Michael Gira )

7Black keyboard

8Master of the Bump ( Kurt Stumbaugh, I Can Feel the Soil Falling Over My Head )

9You Are Pregnant You, You Are Dead

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Credits

Production & Engineering

Writer: Ches Smith, Jamie Stewart
Lyricist: Jamie Stewart
Producer: Ches Smith, Greg Saunier, Jamie Stewart, Thee Fallings Out Brose
Guitar: Jamie Stewart
Vocals: Jamie Stewart
Castanets: Jamie Stewart
Electronic Percussion: Jamie Stewart
Mixing Engineer: Greg Saunier
Snare Drum: Ches Smith
Synthesizer: Jamie Stewart
Vibraphone: Ches Smith