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This Ain't Who We Are

by Marc Platt

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This Ain't Who We Are 02:35
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Nothing like food and shelter The comfort of a warm embrace When families are torn apart By the politics of disgrace This ain’t who we are Or who we’re meant to be Why look down on my fellow man Because he thinks different than me Cuz this ain’t who we are The future repeats the past Did we ever learn the lessons? Or is our judgment built to last This ain’t who we are Or who were meant to be Why look down on my fellow man Because he prays different than me It’s better to open my arms Then it is to bear those arms Cuz this ain’t who we are Or who we’re meant to be Why look down on my fellow man When I’m no better than he This ain’t who we are Or who we’re meant to be ©2015 Marc Alan Platt
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The Loneliness Game 02:44
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I’m by myself all the time/With my thoughts and my dreams Just when I think it’s all fine/I’m hit by the loneliness game Been going on for years/Through the smiles and the tears It’s this loneliness game Chorus: You’ll never know/That it’s all a show Behind some hidden pain You’ll never know/All the sorrow and the shame In the loneliness game I once knew a girl/She changed my world With her smile and brain Didn’t take long/To see that something was wrong In her loneliness game Chorus: You’ll never know/That it’s all a show Behind some hidden pain You’ll never know/All the sorrow and the shame In the loneliness game Bridge: You never see it until it hits you/Right between the eyes You think you’ve got it beat/and then you realize Chorus: You’ll never know/That it’s all a show Behind some hidden pain You’ll never know/All the sorrow and the shame In the loneliness game © 2016 Marc Alan Platt
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What I Mean 03:03
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Life can get so hard I can hardly breathe When I'm caught off guard Don't know what to believe I say what I want and what I mean I’ll say what I will… I’ll say what I mean When the old tricks Don't work anymore I just can't get my fix I just want more I say what I want and what I mean I’ll say what I will… I’ll say what I mean Bridge: No more vagueness Only clarity The road to Happiness The road to sanity I say what I want and what I mean I’ll say what I will… I’ll say what I mean C 2017 Marc Alan Platt
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We The People 02:31
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It’s we the people/march along We the people/left to sing the songs And we the people make the biggest sacrifice It’s we the people /taking to the streets We the people/Feel the heat It’s we the people Who vote and roll the dice What about our hopes and dreams? Shut down by corrupt regimes Shouldn’t be as crazy as it seems It’ll be we the people/left to figure it out we the people/scream and shout It’s we the people as we make that final last stand It’s we the people/have to carry the fight We the people/left to see the light It’s we the people All across this great land What about our rights and more promises made like the times before Soon someone will be shown the door By we the people, we the people It’s we the people forevermore It’s we the people/have to carry the fight We the people/left to see the light It’s we the people All across this great land Indivisible Indivisible With liberty and justice for all ©2017 Marc Alan Platt
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Alone On The Streets 02:52
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Get in the car/Turn up the heat Seems sad and Dark/Alone on the streets tonight Under the cold moonlight Thinking ‘bout us/ Thinking ‘bout you All the things we used to do/ Alone on the streets tonight Under the cold moonlight *Alone on the streets tonight Wanna call you up and make things right Not worth a fight but I’m alone. Alone on the streets tonight Set in your ways/So set in mine I’m trying to change, to fall in line Alone on the streets tonight Under the cold moonlight *Alone on the streets tonight Wanna call you up and make things right Not worth a fight but I’m alone. Alone on the streets tonight © 2016 Marc Alan Platt
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Wrong or Right 03:09
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A man died alone on the street tonight No friends or family/It don’t seem right He once had dreams/Once owned a home No wife, no kids to call his own *But someone else is getting paid that’s right The world keeps turning from day to night And that won’t change a thing - wrong or right I don’t know/It just ain’t fair The rich protected /No one cares Lord have mercy, so hard to defend When we turn our backs on our best friends *But someone else is getting paid that’s right The world keeps turning from day to night And that won’t change a thing - wrong or right It’s all spinning out of control Gotta keep digging out of this hole Wrong or right A man died alone on the street tonight His heart grew cold with no hope in sight Lord have mercy, so hard to defend When we turn our backs on our best friends *But someone else is getting paid that’s right The world keeps turning from day to night And that won’t change a thing - wrong or right ©2016 Marc Alan Platt
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If I Don't Believe 02:23
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If God can free me from this pain I feel Test my faith, break this contract under seal Will God heal me? Will God reveal me? How will God deal with me? If I don’t believe If God can hear me in my darkest night Will God clear me for my blasphemous slights? Will God heal me? Will God reveal me? How will God deal with me? If I don’t believe As God is my witness I can’t bear witness to God If I don’t believe…For now I Believe in God ©2017 Marc Alan Platt
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Winning 02:43
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Feels like I’m winning again Happy I’m winning again I try to breathe/Always fighting for air Turn it around, no more despair Feels like I’m winning again Chorus: Plastic people, they’ve got no soul I try my best, it’s out of my control Open myself up…That’s how I roll…Winning Feels like I’m hopeful again happy and dreaming again I always said I had it figured out You came along, erased all my doubts Feels like I’m winning again Chorus: Plastic people, they’ve got no soul I try my best, it’s out of my control Open myself up…That’s how I roll…Winning Bridge: Only the beginning…Winning Feels like I’m winning again Happy I’m winning again Feels like I’m winning again Happy I’m winning again Winning… ©2017 Marc Alan Platt

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This is an acoustic album with some electric instrumentation and each song has meaning and significance to me.

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released April 19, 2017

Written & Produced By Marc Platt
Photo: Gregg Kstny Shore
Special Thanks to Karen Sternfeld, John Ferriter & Liane Curtis

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Marc Platt Los Angeles, California

Marc Platt has been a singer-songwriter since the early 1980's. His band The Real Impossibles had music that was featured on MTV and ESPN. His Radio Candy company and radio shows have helped other artists since 2015.

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