Label: Raytheon Defense Contractor Company Recording Artists of Northern Vermont

Release Date: September 19, 2025

Produced, recorded and mixed at SpIcYwOrLd in Burlington, VT by kevin bloom

Mastered at Turtlephonic in Rochester, NY by Sam Snyder

All songs are written by kevin bloom

Album artwork by Zack James
credits
released September 19, 2025

1. To Conflate Jewishness With Zionism Is Itself A Profoundly Anti-Semitic Act, And I Question The Motives of Those Who Do Things Like This

kevin bloom: bass, guitars,synthesizer, vocals
Zack James: drums
Owen James: guitar
Seelig W. Bush: guitar

2. We Will Continue To Offer Unwavering Support For Our Closest Allies In The Region

kevin bloom: bass, guitars, vocals
Zack James: drums
Owen James: guitar
Seelig W. Bush: guitar
Chuck Fay: glockenspiel, guitar
Lily “Seabird” Seward: vocals
Ivamae: vocals
Brenden Provost: pedal steel guitar
3. Mistakes Were Made (Mission Accomplished!)

kevin bloom: bass, guitars, vocals
Zack James: drums
Owen James: guitar
Seelig W. Bush: guitar
Lily “Seabird” Seward: vocals
Ezra Ouellette: vocals
Brayden Baird: vocals
Brenden Provost: pedal steel guitar

4. Raytheon’s Quarterly Profit Review

kevin bloom: bass, guitars, wooden xylophone, vocals
Zack James: drums
Owen James: guitar
Seelig W. Bush: guitar, vocals
Billy Weaver: saxophone
Sam Atallah: trumpet, synthesizer
Lily “Seabird” Seward: vocals
Ivamae: vocals

5. In 2024, The Average American Contributed A Non-Zero Amount Of Money To Assist In The Ongoing Genocide In Gaza

kevin bloom: bass, guitars, piano, vocals
Zack James: drums
Owen James: guitar
Seelig W. Bush: guitar
Yon Bui: flute, vocals

6. What Exactly Was The USAF Doing In 2024 Flying Over Gaza?

kevin bloom: bass, guitars, vocals
Zack James: drums
Owen James: guitar
Seelig W. Bush: guitar, American desert wind field recording

7. Whenever I Hear A Human Being Called A Human Shield

kevin bloom: bass, guitars, synthesizer, vocals
Zack James: drums
Owen James: guitar
Seelig W. Bush: guitar, piano, harmonica
Billy Weaver: saxophone
Sam Atallah: trumpet, synthesizer
Lily “Seabird” Seward: vocals

8. Silence Is Violence

kevin bloom: bass, guitars, piano, vocals
Zack James: drums
Owen James: guitar
Seelig W. Bush: guitar
Billy Weaver: saxophone
Sam Atallah: trumpet
Lily “Seabird” Seward: vocals

Lyrics:

1. To Conflate Jewishness With Zionism Is Itself A Profoundly Anti-Semitic Act, And I Question The Motives of Those Who Do Things Like This

Why do you think this album exists?
Why? Why?

Of all people, I can’t it’s me to say it
Work stops in Shaker world until I address it (it’s the least I can do)

Who me? I am
A child of ancestors
Who fled the
Holocaust

If I really have to listen to
Another Evangelical definition of Anti-Semitism
Then they too should have to hear me out about
Smoking pot with Jesus
Smoking pot, smoking pot

In my last conversation with my grandparents
They told me of my family
They survived stealing pies on the run
In my kitchen now
I am being busy doing baking
I am being busy doing baking

My ancestral people got by stealing pies left sitting on some windowsills
Both true and untrue

In my kitchen I keep busy doing baking
You can too! To leave a pie in your own way and in your own shape

Instead I invite you to be busy doing baking on your windowsill
I am busy you are busy too

Keep busy doing baking
For all the people of the world

Love is real
Mistakes were made
Raytheon is watching you
Where will the money sink to next?
Who’s watching who?
Whenever I hear a human being called a shield I freak out!
And remember
Silence is violence
Silence is violence
Silence is violence
Silence is violence
Silence is violence


2. We Will Continue To Offer Unwavering Support For Our Closest Allies In The Region

Sweep me off my feet
Like a drone strike
In a convoy we go to
The wedding venue
Becoming car parts
You’re tearing this family apart!

On the eastern seaboard
A spokesperson
Bemoans inconvenience as well as offers their condolences
“We’re really sorry this time
for tearing that family apart” As if they’d ever say that!
In the passive voice no one’s ever at fault
So you know that they used it recycling the car parts
Now that’s convenience!

Love is real
Love is real
Love is the only thing that’s real
Love is the only thing
Love is real
It’s the only thing that’s real

Sweep me off my feet
Like a drone strike
On a wedding in 2013


3. Mistakes Were Made (Mission Accomplished!)


Watch this revision…


By whom (dot com)
To whom
For whom
Mistakes were made
Mistakes were made

On the flightdeck George wears a flightsuit
Mistakes were made
Mistakes, mistakes

(Mistakes mistakes mistakes)
Mistakes were made
(mistakes mistakes mistakes)
Was it even a mistake?
Mission accomplished
Mistakes were made
Was the mistake was mission?
Mission accomplished
Mistakes were made
Mission accomplished
Mistakes mistakes, mistakes (mistakes hey! hey!)


George Bush is a war criminal
(pew pew pew!)


By whom
For whom?
To whom?

Mistakes were made
But we’ll do better in the future
Mistakes were made we’ll do better in the future
George Bush
Sorry about that folks mistakes were made but we’ll do better in the future
Mission accomplished mistakes were made
The future
I wrestled with e cedar once and I won
In the future
He lives in Kennebunkport, Maine
In the future

Could it have been for you?
I’m just askin’ questions!

Mistakes, mistakes
Nope nope nope nope
Mission made mistakes accomplished
Mistakes mission accomplished
No no no no no
Accomplished mistakes
Mission accomplished
(who who who?)

Mission accomplished
Mission accomplished
Mission accomplished
Mission accomplished
Mistakes were made
Mission accomplished
The worst kind of mission
Mission accomplished
Mission accomplished
For you?
For whom?
Was it for you?
For whom?

Who is asking all these questions?
What an awful mistake.
Mistakes, mistakes
Mistakes, mistakes
Mistakes were made
Mistakes were made


4. Raytheon’s Quarterly Profit Review

I’d like to see a receipt
Of all of my purchases
With Raytheon

I don’t remember coming in
But the money’s gone

I must be acquiring armaments in my sleep again

Raytheon
Raytheon
Raytheon
Raytheon
Raytheon
Raytheon
Raytheon

Quirky young professionals, in the office we have fun here
Last weekend I dropped acid at a music festival
It was sick, it was crazy–
Fast paced like my semi-professional family
I’ll never tell my family

Raytheon
Raytheon
Raytheon
Raytheon
Raytheon
Raytheon
Raytheon
Raytheon

You and I, you and I, WeWork, side by side, for Raytheon
Each American holding hands withholds small love for Raytheon
Every single American works for Raytheon

Raytheon
Raytheon
Raytheon
Raytheon
Ra ra ra Raytheon

O-N-E-R-T-X
You, you and I
work together
O-N-E-R-T-X
You and I
work together
O-N-E-R-T-X
You, you and I
work together
O-N-E-R-T-X
O-N-E-R-T-X
You and I together forever
O-N-E-R-T-X
O-N-E-R-T-X
You and I together forever
O-N-E-R-T-X
You and I together forever
O-N-E-R-T-X


5. In 2024, The Average American Contributed A Non-Zero Amount Of Money To Assist In The Ongoing Genocide In Gaza

With each gallon of gas
Both myself, my fellow Americans
Are complicit
It’s simple
The children are starving
It is now 2025.

Imagine, imagine
If all our top operatives
Were cookin’ hot meals for the people of the world

By my participation
In the local economy
Imagine, Imagine
A world with
Big Peace skimmin’ off the top
Instead of starvation we could have drinking water
For all the people of the world
But instead we got another submarine (womp womp)
Imagine, Imagine
A world!

It is possible if not probable if you demand it!


6. What Exactly Was The USAF Doing In 2024 Flying Over Gaza?

Think of yourself as a child
Think of a child you know
What is similar to the two?
Somewhere else a child is blown apart with your tax dollars
In hot pursuit

In the great American desert
In an air conditioned office
Sometimes even the drone operator cries too
Sometimes even the drone operator cries too

Does it really matter
Who pulls the trigger
When you’ve bought the bullets either way?

Da-da-da-da-da-da-ah-ah-oo

Rattles me to see
Another child blown apart
If I was elsewhere too I could have been blown apart, odds are I would have been too

Targeting and observation is a helping hand or they wouldn’t do it
Think about that child that you know
In your community
Freedom isn't free.
How many dead children is it worth to you?
Freedom for whom?

Pro-life conservative what do you have to say?
Evangelical conservative what would Jesus Christ say?
Rattles me!

Sometimes even the drone operator cries too
Sometimes even the drone operator cries too
Sometimes even the drone operator cries too
Sometimes even the drone operator cries too
Sometimes even the drone operator cries too
Sometimes even the drone operator cries too
Sometimes even the drone operator cries too
Sometimes even the drone operator cries too


7. Whenever I Hear A Human Being Called A Human Shield

Whenever I hear a human being called
Anything other than what they are
Anything other than what they are
I freak out!

Now that’s what I call missiles & bombz 4 the children!
Whenever I hear this or that type of story
I stop listening, I stop
And I question the teller too
How apocryphal!

If you’re unwilling to
Shoot a child
I think it should be unallowable to hire out!

Whenever I hear a human being called
Anything other than what they are
Shields are meant for shooting
Shields are meant for shooting, I freak out!
I freak out!
I freak out!


Whenever I hear a human being called
Anything other than what they are
I freak out! I freak out! I freak out!
I’m freaking out!
I freak out! I freak out! I freak out!
I’m freaking out!

Whenever I hear a human being called
A shield


8. Silence Is Violence

“Who decides what silence is?”
“Who decides what violence is?”
Sung by my friend
Had to be at least ten years ago
That song never left me

The Cage you teach listens or speaks
If not for a silent set of prison bars
When I say “Peace now!” and you say “Be quiet!”
This too is an act of violence

Another missile, another bomb
Waiting to be delivered to the children