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Point Less

from Point Less by Ola Onabulé

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POINT LESS
‘Point Less’ is the title track of the album and for good reason. It is on the face of it, an exploration of the pointlessness of violence, but it aims to delve a little deeper and asks why in the modern era there seems to be a tendency to point the finger of blame at the victims of violence. The song addresses how peoples who are afflicted by subjugation to a violent culture, ironically have a tendency to enact greater violence on one another . It uses a play on the words point and less and the word pointless to explore these complex relationships.

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POINTLESS
Ola Onabule 2018

Pointless, is the point of it all,
To hold you down where you fall,
On the fragments, of a dream, you saw come true.
But wasn't meant for you.

Point less, those shattered fingers of blame,
You were never in their game
Like the echo, of a lie, you tell yourself.
When no one's there to hear,
I am pointless

Naked in leaden rain,
Raised by betrayal’s pain,
Watch the children come enrolling,
Down degradation’s drain,
Gouged out of hollow frames
All too soon, they’ll come to see hope's...

Pointless, is the point of it all,
To hold you down where you fall,
On the fragments, of a dream, you saw come true.
But wasn't meant for you.

Point less, those shattered fingers of blame,
You were never in their game
Like the echo, of a lie, you tell yourself.
When no one's there to hear,
I am pointless

Red, white and blue, her ghosts
Lives that once mattered most,
Locked in hearts, too late for houses
Ruthless this ebb and flow
Uneasy status quo
Far too late, she knows that love is…

Pointless, is the point of it all,
To hold you down where you fall,
On the fragments, of a dream, you saw come true.
But wasn't meant for you.

Point less, those shattered fingers of blame,
You were never in the game
Like the echo, of a lie, you tell yourself.
When no one's there to hear,
I am pointless

With pyrrhic advantage,
And reason held hostage
By counterpoint,
The victor seems victim
If truth lies beside him
On our worlds disjoint

What you went looking for?
Is what’s missing inside you
You couldn’t see it,
But we knew it’s all ver when,
That little baby just watched her daddy die
Oh no, oh no,
you all saw it but you just walked on by

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from Point Less, released August 30, 2019
Drums - Jack Pollitt, Bass - Phil Mulford, Guitar - John Parricelli, Piano - Ross Stanley, Percussion - Will Fry

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Ola’s new album, POINT LESS has been critically received worldwide. The new album is on the DownBeat list of Best Albums of 2019. .

Onabulé is a rugged individualist, a deeply soulful musician. Possessing an emotional intensity and vocal virtuosity, a poignant storyteller and capacity to cross cultural and musical boundaries with an unflinching lyrical pursuit of truth and justice.
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