Defiance, Ohio is a punk band from Columbus, Ohio. They are known for their extensive touring and intense, enthusiastic live shows. They are named (tongue in cheek) after the real town Defiance, Ohio. The band has a unique line-up for a punk act, featuring violin, cello, banjo, acoustic and electric guitars, piano, and electric bass (formerly an upright bass).
Since Defiance, Ohio formed in 2002 they have released four full length LPs, Share What Ya Got
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Oh, Susquehanna! Defiance, Ohio The Great Depression
CAm We walk at the paths at the banks of the mighty Susquehanna CAm with our feet made muddy by your tributaries that trickle their way to the Chesapeake. AmC It's like we follow I-83 down to harbor cities with strip malls and tar-mac AmC people swirling and teeming. It seemed so exciting, but now it seems like such a blight.
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CAm I grew up near Kentucky's Mt. Zion CAm Road and all that was there was some old cemetery. AmC All I wanted [was] to be able to walk to the store. AmC Now I don't live there but there's too many stores, some apartments, and a Sunoco.
CAm And I wonder, what did they do with the bodies? CAm Oh, Susquehanna!
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CAm And I miss that place behind my house where I hiked and climbed and played CAm where I ditched this noisy century or just hid out from the decade. AmC M-I homes thought it could stand to be updated AmC forced it all into a grid until it looked like the funny pages.
CAm With every trace of life, it seems, confined within a frame CAm the faces move from day to day but the strips all look the same. AmC And the punchlines are resoundingly unfunny AmC for those trapped in this architecture of easy money.
CAm And it feels like this could all come to no good. CAm The kids who populate these culdesacs will never know what stood beneath those AmC cookie cutter houses: fields and streams and woods. AmC They'll sit in cars and wait for mom to drive them out of this boring neighborhood.