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East Palestine Ohio

I happened to be re-reading White Noise by Don Delillo when the East Palestine train derailment happened. Just felt real weird about it and wrote a song, basically. #eastpalestine #singersongwriter #ohio #derailment #trains #dondelillo #whitenoise #americana #folk #country Words: In 1985 Don Delillo wrote a book called white noise relating self worth to the value of the things that we buy in order to forget about our ending But all you really need to know for this song is that in that book a train derails and explodes like a bomb releasing toxic gas and that used to be fiction It ain't us said the CEO of Norfolk Southern ain't us either said the government Musta been god, or luck that ain't so good It ain't us said the people of East Ohio No one to blame and all the while East Palestine's a poisoned neighborhood (A preventable tragedy everyone understood) In 2014 congress passed a bill that required trains that could toxic spill to have Electronic Pneumatic brakes that were shiny Those old air brakes do fine with freight But with toxic material cant make mistakes six million dollars in donations that bill was gone On February third, twenty twenty three a freight train carrying vinyl chloride's speed was too much for its 1970's bearings Fifty cars derailed spilling their contents Risking explosion, so Norfolk Southern Started burning all that stuff and watched the smoke The Ohio Department of Natural Resources estimates the spill killed four thousand fish poisoned children, killed pets and all the deer The smoke kept growing in that giant column We still don't know the extant of the problem And somehow I'm not sure we ever will Norfolk Southern's worth fifty billion It issues shares to executives in millions and buys back stock in billions to show they care They fired half their workforce to wallstreets praise Cause the Safety Oversight folks were overpaid and its cheaper to poison children than to upgrade brakes White noise ends with a beautiful sunset enhanced by the chemicals the train erupted It's beauty a distraction from our deaths Norfolk Southern wants to play that game The government looks like it wants the same Without having to admit they made the mess