The boss guy let everyone out Friday at 2, he’s good that way on holiday weekends and it is much appreciated. Hung around though for something that’s been in and out of the head wordin’ for a couple of weeks, the let out early a bonus as I was able to do what I do in song attempts for a few hours, having made sure all my shit was dotted and T’d (at least I hope so) for a long weekend to then get home at my regular hour to the furry girls with some editing play in hand for the workin’, headphones down.
Plus it was my birthday, the old man that I am. Whodathunk I’d be close to 60 someday? I know years are what they are, that they add up, but still back in my best of days it seemed so far away as to be almost unfathomable. But this was my gift to myself, just time to do what makes me happy … and sad, and frustrated and wanna throw shit angry.
Editorials in song.
This one is a bit of a drone, an Iggy Pop drone of his “The Passenger” but with a hook that just sticks.
We Are
We are the hypocrites
We’re pro-life but abandon born kids
Body autonomy’s a right against masks
And vaccines you’ve no right to task
Don’t tread on me, no you can’t even ask
But female autonomy’s a thing of the past
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We’re disingenuous
We cry at vigils of schoolkids
More lost to our well paid hubris
We thought and prayer and rationalize
Blame our morality‘s claimed decline
Not in our war chest for power outsized
Our lack of action is your fault it’s not ours
—
We sing la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la
Pompous self righteous is what we all are
La-la-la-la-la-la-la-la
La-la
We are
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We are the Christianists
Women’s rights we won’t allow
Rape incest even under-age now
They’re just a new day’s opportunity
While we strut about in our piety
Making sure you bring about babies
Promptly out of mind once do the light they see
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Authoritarians
Free speech is what we insist
The right to misinform
The right to prop-a-gan-dize
And you can’t criticize now
Speech is what we decide now
We’ll legislate what you can and can’t say
Or violently bring your free to waste
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Got our own rigged election plan
100’s GOP’s in on the scam
Break at states the will of them you’ll see
Not of the people but new you and me
Results just for GOP’s new you and me
Our vision of a Democracy that’s just died
—
We sing la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la
Minority drunk w majority court
La-la-la-la-la-la-la-la
La-la
We are
—
We are the activists
From the court we legislate with new twist
It’s not the leftists we warned in past
Boogeymen to scare conservative kids
No it’s a Clarence bloc with a backwards breath
A new Christian way with a brand new breadth
And scope of what rights just might be next
And how we now can control your ways
The ones we know the Devil helps sway
Generations precedent progress gone away
—
A Singin’ la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la
La-la-la-la-la-la-la-la
La-la-la-la-la-la-la-la, la-la
We are
—
We are exceptional
Shoulder above all the ne’er-do-wells
Who think history’s about truth’s to tell
Not our re-write aleviate guilt
With no systemic racism cloud
We were just caretakers of a new world
On the back’s of lessers who still owe us the price we paid
—
Singin’ La La La La La La La La La
We are
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