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history repeats

by Hannah Hagar

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On January 21, 2017, there was a Women’s March in New York City, and a worldwide protest. It was the day after the Presidential Inauguration.

I took the E train uptown from Spring and watched the protesters amass up 5th Avenue towards the park. There were children swerving through their parents legs, and periodic chants that eventually lost their melodies; there were signs with phrases like “no uterus, no opinion” and “women’s rights are human rights,” and policemen in bulletproof vests chatting with strangers in little pink crocheted hats. I took myself out of the crowd and sat on the curb and observed.

It was all so familiar, like so many other demonstrations I’d attended years before. Like the ones going on right now across the country. Like the ones that occurred ten, twenty, fifty years ago.

On my way home, I didn’t take the train. I walked the fifty blocks and processed, and penned what eventually became “History Repeats,” humming into my phone and trying to keep my hands from freezing.

While we cannot unwrite the past, we can begin to tell a new story.

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released May 20, 2022
recorded at bluebench recording
written and produced by hannah hagar
engineered and produced by benjamin alan levy
additional production by lang freeman
mastered by kevin butler
drums and percussion by jeff olson
bass guitar by sam pankey

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Hannah Hagar is a songwriter from Austin, TX.

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