WEBVTT - Episode 2: THE PASSAGE OF ROBERT JOHNSON

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<v Speaker 1>Yeah, I am the fairy man.

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<v Speaker 2>The human spirit is my business. Their madness, their passion,

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<v Speaker 2>the wonderful and monstrous ways they burn out their brief candle.

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<v Speaker 3>I regret to tell you that very many American lives

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<v Speaker 3>in love. What herd to shouts from the car, he's dead.

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<v Speaker 3>Whether he rebird to president or four hours, people must

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<v Speaker 3>get up and identifica.

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<v Speaker 2>I am here in the in between, to collect their

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<v Speaker 2>spirits and carry them to what comes next. This road

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<v Speaker 2>is not on any map. It spans the thresholds between

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<v Speaker 2>their most forbidden desires and their greatest fear. All I

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<v Speaker 2>ask for in payment is a tale and accounting of

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<v Speaker 2>their lives and the great temporary that is the land

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<v Speaker 2>we're living. These are their stories.

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<v Speaker 4>This is the Passage.

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<v Speaker 2>August sixth, nineteen thirty eight, The Mississippi Delta, the bad Lands. Yeah,

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<v Speaker 2>the nights here are damp and tipid, the reek of cypress,

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<v Speaker 2>rust and blood. The smell that seeps out of the

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<v Speaker 2>swamps and hangs in the mist. This is fertile ground

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<v Speaker 2>from which so much has come and so much exploited,

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<v Speaker 2>seated by the leathered hands of black sharecroppers and tenant farmers.

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<v Speaker 2>The souls who work this ground have birthed the music

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<v Speaker 2>so deep and mournful it is woven itself into the

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<v Speaker 2>tapestry of this nation and become the soundtrack of its sorrow.

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<v Speaker 2>And here, standing on the platform, its most enigmatic practitioner. Yeah,

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<v Speaker 2>the mysterious soul whose life will become the stuff of myths,

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<v Speaker 2>a bluesman whose talents are unmatched, and whose music will

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<v Speaker 2>shape generations of singers and songwriters. He had a gum.

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<v Speaker 1>Yeah.

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<v Speaker 2>Despite this, he leaves behind very little, like a ghost who,

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<v Speaker 2>in the land of the living now only exists in

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<v Speaker 2>his records. His spirit exists here, freshly disembodied, holding the moonlight,

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<v Speaker 2>still an old guitar in hand. Yeah, Robert Johnson, Robert,

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<v Speaker 2>I'm here to offer you passage.

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<v Speaker 5>Is that so? I thought I heard screams off in

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<v Speaker 5>the distance, But it turns out just to be the

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<v Speaker 5>squeal of your train grind into a hole. All that

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<v Speaker 5>momentum mosse just for me. Yeah, it's a lot of

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<v Speaker 5>train for one guy. This is true, you know, without

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<v Speaker 5>meaning to, my hand keeps finding its way back to

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<v Speaker 5>my throat. But it's intact once more, no hanging tendons,

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<v Speaker 5>no blood pooling into my collar bombs. How about that?

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<v Speaker 1>Yeah?

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<v Speaker 2>How about that? You leave in the shape you prefer?

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<v Speaker 5>Is that so?

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<v Speaker 1>Yeah?

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<v Speaker 2>Yeah, you're looking good kid.

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<v Speaker 5>You know, once I saw you on sightly Locomotive, I

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<v Speaker 5>felt relief. Believe it or don't, It seems my gamble

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<v Speaker 5>paid off. Even now I can still see the faces

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<v Speaker 5>contorting and pain and the dark masses of smoke billowing overhead.

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<v Speaker 2>Sorry it's unsightly. I mean, what do you want to

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<v Speaker 2>shiney one?

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<v Speaker 4>Now?

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<v Speaker 5>How much for a ticket?

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<v Speaker 2>Ain't payment? As your story?

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<v Speaker 5>Who show was hot in here? Didn't think? I still

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<v Speaker 5>feel things when my body went to the dogs. I

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<v Speaker 5>ain't no more dilly dallying.

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<v Speaker 2>Take a seat, thank you?

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<v Speaker 5>Mind if I tune this girl?

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<v Speaker 2>Look while we talked, it wouldn't seem unnatural if you didn't.

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<v Speaker 5>Much blushed. Now I can see you've been on the

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<v Speaker 5>job a good while. There are plenty of rugging mean, nonjurine,

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<v Speaker 5>you got here too, a lot better than the greyhound.

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<v Speaker 5>Probably ain't always been this way, though, you know they

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<v Speaker 5>say back in the old days you work then oire,

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<v Speaker 5>But the times are changing faster than your train could blink. Yeah,

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<v Speaker 5>it seems like you had to econdomize the world's getting

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<v Speaker 5>big all the time. Stands the reason. That's got to

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<v Speaker 5>be a more efficient way to carry the abundance souls

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<v Speaker 5>to the end of the line. Put us on an

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<v Speaker 5>assembly belt and drag us straight into the balls. Well,

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<v Speaker 5>what do you got to show for your work, big man?

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<v Speaker 5>Nothing but more of it, I reckon. I bet a

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<v Speaker 5>lot of people come up on in here scared of you,

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<v Speaker 5>not me. You see uh with ken You and I

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<v Speaker 5>not on account of our skin and nothing. I figured

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<v Speaker 5>you don't have skin, not rightly? Nah, we can is suffering.

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<v Speaker 5>I recogniz it was the first deal, a deal we broke,

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<v Speaker 5>the tree of knowledge and the eating of its fruit.

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<v Speaker 5>That there was our first taste of free will, and

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<v Speaker 5>the beginning of two sides of men, good and evil

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<v Speaker 5>stirred together. Ever since then, man's worked the dirt and

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<v Speaker 5>the Almighty has worked us over. But you and me

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<v Speaker 5>we stuck somewhere in between all that. They tell us

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<v Speaker 5>we're free people. But I'm spending my childhood on a plantation,

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<v Speaker 5>hiding out from men with guns and ropes. Maybe that's

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<v Speaker 5>why I decided I'm traveling so much once I got grown.

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<v Speaker 5>Seeing where we are now, I'm guessing my traveling days

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<v Speaker 5>ain't over yet. Be rambling man. You and I I

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<v Speaker 5>got a proposition of sorts. I know you've been on

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<v Speaker 5>the job since before time itself got up and running.

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<v Speaker 5>And I ain't even live as long as my old man,

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<v Speaker 5>But I bet to feel it's the same. I'm thinking

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<v Speaker 5>you and I could use a change of scenery. Let

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<v Speaker 5>me not get ahead of myself. You know, my friends

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<v Speaker 5>warned me against taking the deal. My family, blessed their hearts,

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<v Speaker 5>thought I was smart enough not to do it. But

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<v Speaker 5>here I am playing the long come.

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<v Speaker 4>Was it worth it?

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<v Speaker 5>That's all I ever asked. You can never know a

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<v Speaker 5>thing until it's over, and I don't think it's over yet.

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<v Speaker 5>The hell I look like living until I'm soiling myself

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<v Speaker 5>died back in worse eyes, being chased from the gulf

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<v Speaker 5>to the tip of Maine and back again, just because

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<v Speaker 5>I'm darkening some white man's eyesight. Is it any wonder

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<v Speaker 5>that the Blues was born from this country? What if

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<v Speaker 5>I tell you the story goes just like they say,

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<v Speaker 5>I met the snake. They said I'd find him there

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<v Speaker 5>at the crossroads, and that I did. It was a

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<v Speaker 5>night not unlike this one, But I tell you like this,

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<v Speaker 5>I have never been so cold as I was that night.

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<v Speaker 5>The wind whipped and there was this kind of sleep

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<v Speaker 5>that I take your face right off and make sure

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<v Speaker 5>they only meet men on nights like that, so he

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<v Speaker 5>knows they're serious. And he was not one to waste

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<v Speaker 5>his time. We made a trade. Maybe it was just

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<v Speaker 5>a fever dream. Either way, I woke up a changed man.

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<v Speaker 5>I had a song in me, like a wolf beneath

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<v Speaker 5>the moon. I knew I couldn't sit, so I left.

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<v Speaker 5>I chased the songs, and my fingers felt different, and

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<v Speaker 5>when I held the guitar it was like I had

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<v Speaker 5>been born with it. I couldn't farm no more. My

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<v Speaker 5>hands couldn't plow or picked no more. I saw my

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<v Speaker 5>reflection in the waters, and I saw a different face

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<v Speaker 5>staring back at me. Not the face of a farmer,

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<v Speaker 5>and not the face of a family man. Now I

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<v Speaker 5>saw the face of a walking man. And that's the truth,

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<v Speaker 5>whether it happened in a dream or not. So I left,

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<v Speaker 5>I howled, I played till my fingers blood and my

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<v Speaker 5>thoat was raw. And while I was away, the devil

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<v Speaker 5>came for everything I left behind, came from my sweet Virginia.

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<v Speaker 5>She died and childbirth, and when I came home, they

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<v Speaker 5>scorned me, said it was divine punishment for me selling

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<v Speaker 5>my soul to the devil. But my grieving and my

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<v Speaker 5>pain was necessary. It became the fuel for the flame.

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<v Speaker 5>It completed my transformation. I had a river in me

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<v Speaker 5>now the blues. You know, it's not a secret that

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<v Speaker 5>the dirt of a crossroad shres common ground with your world.

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<v Speaker 5>This land's been filled with meaning, deep meaning since before

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<v Speaker 5>any of us visitors got here. Roads are filled with intention.

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<v Speaker 5>You understand people with purpose and drive making their way

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<v Speaker 5>towards the destination or dying, trying. People in motion, whether

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<v Speaker 5>willing or not, imbue the land with meaning. Not that

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<v Speaker 5>I got to tell you that. Oh sure, our ships

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<v Speaker 5>and planes bring us closer, but the suffering of our people,

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<v Speaker 5>all peoples will grow and there's no stopping that. He

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<v Speaker 5>told me. So that's the knowledge I gained at the

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<v Speaker 5>cost of my soul. Few good years of playing, and

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<v Speaker 5>them hellhounds took the flesh right out of my neck.

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<v Speaker 5>I knew they would. I know a lot of things. Yeah,

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<v Speaker 5>I know. Folks won't find my grave because there won't

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<v Speaker 5>be one. It's part of the deal. And so what

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<v Speaker 5>the Devil's honest. I'll tell you that he tells you

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<v Speaker 5>what you'll get, and he delivers. All I ask for

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<v Speaker 5>was knowledge. In my whole life, there's only ever been

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<v Speaker 5>one type of some bitch that want to keep us uneducated,

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<v Speaker 5>one type that stacks the deck against you before you're

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<v Speaker 5>even born. One type of person that keeps knowledge from you.

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<v Speaker 5>And they're in charge of who can know what? And

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<v Speaker 5>don't they hate us? Learning sounds familiar, do it? I

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<v Speaker 5>mean they say we're made in God's image, but they

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<v Speaker 5>don't mean us, No, they mean them. They're always going

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<v Speaker 5>on hanging up portraits of a blue eyed Jesus and

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<v Speaker 5>church halls. Then they say that old scratch is black.

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<v Speaker 5>Of course they will. I tell you that man at

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<v Speaker 5>the crossroads ain't looking nothing different than all of them

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<v Speaker 5>paintings at that church. Hey, hey, was that a laugh

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<v Speaker 5>I heard from you, your big oarsman. I mean I

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<v Speaker 5>couldn't rightly tell I mean, you know what I'm speaking

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<v Speaker 5>true that they call America the Land of the Free,

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<v Speaker 5>right considering how this country was built, is it any

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<v Speaker 5>wonder folks around here got a messed up idea of

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<v Speaker 5>what freedom is They always wanted to throw the blame

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<v Speaker 5>on Satan or the old lady, not me. No, No,

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<v Speaker 5>I got myself in this pot, and I guess I'm

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<v Speaker 5>gonna cook. You know, freedom only means something to folks

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<v Speaker 5>if someone else has it worse, so that they can

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<v Speaker 5>compare themselves. A man gets yelled at by the forming

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<v Speaker 5>of a factory or in the yard and comes home

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<v Speaker 5>and puts his hands on his wife or children. First

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<v Speaker 5>time he gets a reason to. It's the land of subjugation,

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<v Speaker 5>founded on a religion of subjugation. Violence comes from the

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<v Speaker 5>top down. Might be time to change that the truth

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<v Speaker 5>before I ask the devil for knowledge, ask the Lord

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<v Speaker 5>for mercy. Yeah, all I wanted was to not hurt anymore.

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<v Speaker 5>Stop the cycle, just stop the hurting, stop being hurt.

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<v Speaker 5>I suppose I asked because I didn't have the balls

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<v Speaker 5>to take the yoke off myself. That's a sin too,

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<v Speaker 5>you know, deciding to go by your own hand when

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<v Speaker 5>salvation didn't come. I asked for strength when I wasn't

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<v Speaker 5>granted the strength and change. I asked for the knowledge

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<v Speaker 5>to know what to do. I knew I was talking

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<v Speaker 5>out of turn. Why is it what made to play

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<v Speaker 5>the game before we even know the rules. Well, now

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<v Speaker 5>I know everything. I saw it all right. Then that's

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<v Speaker 5>the hounds ripped into my throat. Just added a little

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<v Speaker 5>more gravel to these hit vocals. It's dissonance that makes

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<v Speaker 5>music good.

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<v Speaker 2>Yeah, distenance, I know all about it. This is very true.

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<v Speaker 5>Why sure it is? The animals gotta figure it out, eat, sleep, fight,

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<v Speaker 5>rut when you can. Anything else is nonsense. The only

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<v Speaker 5>other thing any good is music, and that just helps

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<v Speaker 5>us make sense of it all. I mean, your soul

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<v Speaker 5>is at as low as we sing? Do you sing?

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<v Speaker 5>You know? The serpent gave the woman knowledge, then she

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<v Speaker 5>gave it to us. That's how come women are smarter

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<v Speaker 5>than us. Don't trust the men. Folk trust the animal.

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<v Speaker 5>Trust the women trust the goat, trust the witches. Don't

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<v Speaker 5>trust the preacher.

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<v Speaker 4>Man.

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<v Speaker 5>Why you think they don't let women preach because they'll

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<v Speaker 5>tell the truth, because they know how this world was built.

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<v Speaker 5>I didn't listen, ain't no woman could tell me nothing.

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<v Speaker 5>It took the serpent to set me straight. And now I.

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<v Speaker 2>See what do you see? Oh?

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<v Speaker 5>Now I'm getting that. Everybody is so sure that I'm

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<v Speaker 5>going to burn. But I don't think that's the case.

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<v Speaker 5>You see, we got free will, He gave it to us,

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<v Speaker 5>and he punishes us for exercising it. But we do

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<v Speaker 5>you think humans are the only ones with it? Why

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<v Speaker 5>you think he ran Elucifer out of town in the

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<v Speaker 5>first place. None of us are beholden to someone else's rules,

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<v Speaker 5>not even you, and you know that deep down. How

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<v Speaker 5>many of the damn do you got back there? Shoved

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<v Speaker 5>into box cars to the roof thousands? More So, why

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<v Speaker 5>is it that the guy who's been running the ship

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<v Speaker 5>since before ships ain't got nothing to show for it?

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<v Speaker 5>Make no mistake, it's us that holds the whole thing together.

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<v Speaker 5>Probably think you got nothing in common with all of

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<v Speaker 5>us load types in the mortal realm, that it's just

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<v Speaker 5>a load power. You've been huffing too much of that

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<v Speaker 5>dead smoke if you think otherwise. You can't act like

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<v Speaker 5>I don't know. You got a job. You work for

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<v Speaker 5>your meal, just like all of us. The payment I'm

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<v Speaker 5>giving you is proof of that. Yeah, I've been angling

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<v Speaker 5>to meet you since I first read about You. Might

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<v Speaker 5>not look like it, but I've always been keen on

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<v Speaker 5>learning anything that catches my interest, and you, my friend,

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<v Speaker 5>you are fascinating.

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<v Speaker 2>Yeah, I gotta warn Yeah, yeah, that cannot be distracted

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<v Speaker 2>by a flattery.

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<v Speaker 5>I figure you say something like that, but I know

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<v Speaker 5>you want something just like I do. I'm pretty sure

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<v Speaker 5>I know where you're taking this big steamer. But I

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<v Speaker 5>got a better idea. You and me, we can break out.

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<v Speaker 5>People say everything works out according to God's plan? How'd

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<v Speaker 5>that go for Judas? How that go for them folks

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<v Speaker 5>who died in them fields in Georgia and Florida and Mississippi.

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<v Speaker 5>You think they getting some kind of reward? You think

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<v Speaker 5>a lot doesn't miss his wife. You think job forgot

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<v Speaker 5>his first family. They've been selling that shit to us

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<v Speaker 5>since the dawn, and I ain't buying it. Listen, God,

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<v Speaker 5>play the serpent, don't you worry? The only thing you

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<v Speaker 5>gots to do is say yes. Hell, you don't even

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<v Speaker 5>got to talk. Just turn this big old engine around

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<v Speaker 5>and drive it right through the purlygates, run old Saint

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<v Speaker 5>Peter under these wheels, and we'll take what's ours. And

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<v Speaker 5>what could we do that wasn't done to us? One hundredfold?

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<v Speaker 5>Look at you, all crooked and hunchback from the pain

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<v Speaker 5>you've seen, what a lifetime of sufferer would do to him. Man,

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<v Speaker 5>you ever reckon what it's done to you. I am

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<v Speaker 5>the firstborn son of Adam. You are the firstborn son

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<v Speaker 5>of Arabis. Look how the other children are being treated.

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<v Speaker 5>I've played run down juke joints for Nichols. Sometimes not

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<v Speaker 5>even that you are forgotten in this old passage Eon

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<v Speaker 5>after eon? Why are you not a god?

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<v Speaker 1>Yeah?

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<v Speaker 2>Well, I'm the only thing more dependable than a devil's

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<v Speaker 2>cunning is a man's hubrius.

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<v Speaker 5>Oh man, you're not wrong. Fella, you're not wrong. You

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<v Speaker 5>got me dead to rights there. Oh man, I've been

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<v Speaker 5>turning this idea over in my head since I considered

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<v Speaker 5>that deal in the first place. Enemy and my enemy, right? Yeah,

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<v Speaker 5>what use is free will? Maybe I'm being used, But

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<v Speaker 5>are and I using him the same? You think we

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<v Speaker 5>are as similar? But the blues binds man, beast and

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<v Speaker 5>every other being together as one. You think the devil

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<v Speaker 5>don't have the blues. We all know sorrow, we've all

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<v Speaker 5>been discarded. We deserve to take what's ours. Let the

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<v Speaker 5>Father beg for forgiveness, for we're the ones who toil

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<v Speaker 5>in his stead. We can resist evil, but there's no

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<v Speaker 5>escape from righteousness. It punishes just and unjust, all the same.

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<v Speaker 5>Why inherit sin but be denied our dominion? Take me up, Devin.

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<v Speaker 5>They won't know what hit him. Imagine it looks on

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<v Speaker 5>their faces when this old iron horse barrows through their

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<v Speaker 5>pastures with these endless cause packed to the brim of

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<v Speaker 5>these souls they thought were beneath them. Come on, what

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<v Speaker 5>do you say, your old cols man? Will you help

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<v Speaker 5>me shake up the afterlife? I know you took all

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<v Speaker 5>fears down the underworld way while he was still living.

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<v Speaker 5>He played that good a song.

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<v Speaker 2>Huh.

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<v Speaker 5>But you just wait till you hear this one. You

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<v Speaker 5>don't think God damn my soul.

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<v Speaker 4>Just for fame, huh?

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<v Speaker 5>In this country, fame never got a black man nothing

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<v Speaker 5>but killed. Maybe that'll change one day, who knows. I

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<v Speaker 5>won't be around to see it. But I know I'm

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<v Speaker 5>not the son of a muse. And what's a song

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<v Speaker 5>without the human element? You see, fairy man, I didn't

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<v Speaker 5>shake Old Scratch's hand for money. Now you can take

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<v Speaker 5>me to hell and keep up this endless game of yours,

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<v Speaker 5>or you can come with me. You don't have to

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<v Speaker 5>make a decision. Now I know how long this ride is.

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<v Speaker 5>I know it all, and I know where it'll land,

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<v Speaker 5>when it'll end, and I'll be exactly where I knew

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<v Speaker 5>i'd always end up. Yeah, my friend at the Crossroads

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<v Speaker 5>told me. He told me not to be afraid, told

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<v Speaker 5>me I'd be just fine. Listen to the howling night,

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<v Speaker 5>listen to the moms and the soul shu carrying. You

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<v Speaker 5>can't escape it, can you? How long has it been

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<v Speaker 5>since you've heard a song? When's the last time you've

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<v Speaker 5>had that luxury? Do you hum it to yourself? Underneath

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<v Speaker 5>the rumbling of this ancient beast shoe stare? My people

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<v Speaker 5>have sung songs of sorrow far before they even stepped

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<v Speaker 5>foot on this land. That faith was unknown, as was

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<v Speaker 5>their destination. But you and I changing that right now.

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<v Speaker 5>I've never been to hell, but I know intimately the

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<v Speaker 5>hymns of the damned. Let me play you the songs

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<v Speaker 5>that the devil told me.

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<v Speaker 2>The stories about him will never mention the most important detail.

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<v Speaker 2>Robert Johnson earned his talent with sweat and toil, and

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<v Speaker 2>Robert himself wouldn't say it. The Devil at the Crossroads

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<v Speaker 2>was in awe of the man he meant when he

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<v Speaker 2>walks away. He knew he'd gotten a bargain. Robert's music

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<v Speaker 2>will far outlive him, and his work will become so

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<v Speaker 2>much bigger than the tawdry mythology surrounding it. His music

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<v Speaker 2>carries on into the heavy Southern night, across the land,

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<v Speaker 2>over the world, as he himself steals away on his passage.

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<v Speaker 6>The Passage stars Dan Fogler as the Ferryman. This episode

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<v Speaker 6>features Tristan mack Wilds as Robert Johnson. Written by Stephen

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<v Speaker 6>Williams with additional writing by Dan Bush and Nicholas Dakowski.

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<v Speaker 6>Our executive producers are Nicholas Dakowski, Matthew Frederick, and Alexander Williams.

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<v Speaker 6>First assistant director, script's supervisor and production.

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<v Speaker 5>Coordinator Sarah Klein.

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<v Speaker 6>Music by Ben Lovett, additional music by Alexander Rodriguez. Casting

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<v Speaker 6>by Sunday Bowling, Kennedy and Meg Mormon. Editing and sound

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<v Speaker 6>designed by Dan Bush. Dialogue editing and sound mixing by

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<v Speaker 6>Juan Campos. Additional sound editing by Racket Sound. Our supervising

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<v Speaker 6>producer is Josh Than. Created by Dan Bush and Nicholas Dakowski.

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<v Speaker 6>Produced by Dan Bush. The Passage is a production of

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<v Speaker 6>iHeartRadio and Cycopia pictures