Grace Petrie - Deliver Us From Evil b/w The Redundancy Hymn

Right after three beautiful hallelujahs Grace winks and proclaims "when the chips are down you can count on us to screw it up". Philosophy ripped from the truth of the human condition with a steady beat. Redundancy Hymn explores the employers practice of laying off workers so they will be freed to collect unemployment. Prophetic because just weeks after this song was recorded employers started giving their employees less working hours with the reasoning that the employees are freed to purchase their insurance from the government instead of being offered the substandard employer based insurance. It's always amazing to discover the oppressors continuously coming up with new ways of using their power to appear as the "good guys" as they line their pockets with more money and blood from the poor. Shoutouts for the humorous Protest Singer Blues ("there's no answer blowing in the wind") and thoughtful The Best Thing I Never Had ("I grieve what never was alive").
Grace Petrie - Love Is My Rebellion