Censored Derek Webb Album Released

Artist Derek Webb’s “controversial” album Stockholm Syndrome is now available at record stores, including amazon.com and itunes.

Keep in mind that this release is the censored version demanded by the record company. The only way to get the full album with all 14 songs is through Derek Webb himself or on vinyl (yes, vinyl), now also for sale at amazon.com and these independent record stores around the country.

Not sure you want to buy the album? They’ve got the entire uncensored album streaming at derekwebb.com. Give it a listen before you buy it! I wasn’t sure about Stockholm Syndrome when I got it, but now it’s on regular playback. People have even caught me in the hallways at work pop and locking to “Black Eye”.

If you remember my post from two months ago, Webb’s record company decided not to include the song “What Matters More” because of his using the S-word (shit) and his anti-anti-gay (not a typo) lyrics.

I have to wonder though, did Derek Webb sneak in some other potentially controversial lyrics? Here are some lyrics from the final song on the album, “American Flag Umbrella”.

And please take your hands off my brother
Please take your laws off my lover
The agents of law
Should always be blind and on time
Till there’s freedom for everyone

And where are your American brothers
American before they were named
They’re a huddling mass
No oceans to cross for our shores
Where there’s fortune for everyone

Oppression is always oppression
No matter the reasons or means
For skin or for sex
By stares or by fists, it’s the same
There’s blinders on everyone

Remember that most of the lyrics for Stockholm Syndrome were written within a few months of Prop 8′s passage in California. Maybe I’m wrong, but I see a not-so-subtle message.

Please consider buying the uncensored version (vinyl) of the album to show artists that supporting LGBT people isn’t the risk it used to be.

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