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The Great Divide

by The Big Net / Lightning Bug

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The Big Net - The Great Divide 02:02
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One can't know another's pain Like the sun won't feel the falling rain Not the one asleep on the empty train Not the longing mother of the child who was slain, as hunger runs tears across the plains Not the steadfast hold of rooted chains Not the steadfast hue of ancient chains In the darkest corners of the winding brain I touched it once and went insane Oh, one can't know another's pain
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Lightning Bug - The Great Divide 02:23
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One can never know another's pain The sun will never feel the falling rain Not the longing of the mother for the child who was slain Nor the loneliness of those who go to sleep on empty trains While the hunger runs a trail of bitter tears across the plain. Not the steadfast pull of the rooted chains Nor the steadfast hue of the ancient stain In the darkest corners of the winding brain. Oh, I touched it once and I went insane For one can never really know another's pain.

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"The Great Divide" we face is not just legislative, not just monetary, but also internal. We face a collective change of mind. An eradication of a weed that lives in every garden in America, one that can't be burned out, or plucked, but must be painstakingly unrooted, one by one. The Big Net and Lightning Bug are each releasing a version of this song as a single, all the proceeds of which will be donated to BlackTableArts.com in support of Black art and community. The words speak to the great divide between each person, but today especially between people of color and the rest of America. We cannot and will not fully know eachother's pain, and so we must listen. Deeply and truly listen to Black America. They are in pain. And this remains in red on ALL of our ledgers, until we change our collective mind. So thank you in advance if you listen to this music, but listen closer and harder and forever to your countrymen/women in pain. With love, Kevin. 


One can never know another's pain
The sun will never feel the falling rain

Not the longing of the mother for the child who was slain
Nor the loneliness of those who go to sleep on empty trains
While the hunger runs a trail of bitter tears across the plain.

Not the steadfast pull of the rooted chains
Nor the steadfast hue of the ancient stain
In the darkest corners of the winding brain.

Oh, I touched it once and I went insane
For one can never really know another's pain.

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released June 5, 2020

Words by Audrey Kang
Music by The Big Net and Lightning Bug
Photo by Natalie Agre

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The Big Net New York, New York

The Big Net is led by songwriter Kevin Copeland on guitar and vocals, with Andrew Emge on the drums, and Logan Miley on bass and as the band's recording engineer. They are a folk-rock power trio based somewhere in the Northeastern United States, and their sound is not unlike the sweet howling of a dog in a moving car.

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