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Impeachment Now!
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IMPEACHMENT NOW!
Fire, Fury
"Rocket man"
Border Wall
Travel Ban
Trump calls "very fine people"
the khaki clad klan
With their Tiki torches
And racist chants
But the silent protest
Non-violent focus
Peaceful and courageous
He calls "sons of bitches"
The President
Is incompetent
An embarrassment
Impeachment Now!
The President
Is incompetent
An embarrassment
Impeachment Now!
Red and Blue establishment
Bowing to Big Money influence
Complicit in the highest sense
You bible thumping hypocrites
Cashing in on the environment
Rolling back rights that we died to get
Corporate tax breaks permanent
I don't think that's what Jesus meant
The President
Is incompetent
An embarrassment
Impeachment Now!
The President
Is incompetent
An embarrassment
Impeachment Now!
My button is bigger than yours
War within reach
My button is bigger than yours
War within reach
The President
Is incompetent
An embarrassment
Impeachment Now!
The President
Is incompetent
An embarrassment
Impeachment Now!
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COLOR OF THE SKIN
My father was born in Jim Crow, Tennessee
A sharecropper's son, far from luxury
Moved up north in 1952
Ain't a damn thing changed from his point of view
His point of view
Now I been pulled over on a Shorewood shoulder
Asked where you goin' where you been
Ain't none of your, ain't none of your business
Don't I look like an American
But, you gon' think what you want now don't you
I didn't know the side of the road was a courtroom
Everything dark comes out in the light
We keep marching on but our souls/soles are tired
Here we are again, here we are again
A black man gone cuz of the color of his skin
I was grown and groomed in the Great Lakes Midwest
Where politeness covers up years of repressed
Tight lips, tight asses, too slow to grow
Hyper-segregated masses and I had to go
I had to go
Seen the Rodney King riots in 1992
Black president, I seen that too
Ain't a damn thing changed from my point of view
Ain't a damn thing changed from my point of view
My point of view
Everything dark comes out in the light
We keep marching on but our souls are tired
Here we are again, here we are again
A black child gone cuz of the color of her skin
Everything dark comes out in the light
We keep marching on but our souls are tired
Here we are again, here we are again
A black child gone cuz of the color of the skin
The color of the skin
The color of their skin
The color of the skin
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JAMES MADISON
(The chorus is a quote by, James Madison, the 4th President of the United States)
Founding fathers free spirit men
Some grew hemp on their plantations
All had slaves but they didn't free 'em
All had slaves and some fucked 'em
Jimmy James Madison
Didn't give two shits about anyone
Polk's "Manifest Destiny"
Didn't work out for the Cherokee
"The purpose of the government
is to protect the minority of the opulent
from the majority"
Two party system
Seems like one
Gold at the top
And the rest on the rickety rackety rungs
We got the money, we got the guns
We got greed and idiocy
An embarrassment to everyone
With any sense of decency
"The purpose of the government
is to protect the minority of the opulent
from the majority"
Prying perverts police populations
Prisons populate
Prophets/Profits, predictions
Politicians salivate
Ellsberg, Manning, Snowden, Davis
Heroes and dissidents
We all could use a daily dose
Of civil disobedience
We all could use a daily dose
Of civil disobedience
"The purpose of the government
is to protect the minority of the opulent
from the majority"
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HANDS UP
Hands up
Don't shoot
I'm tough but not
Bulletproof
Gonna love out loud not afraid
Gonna march down Main in the Pride Parade
No closets, no shame
Yes, love. No, hate.
Hands up
Don't shoot
We're tough but not
Bulletproof
It's not the guns it's the trigger
It's the bullet in the chamber
sent to kill a stranger
by a hateful deranged figure
It's not the guns it's the trigger
It's the bullet in the chamber
sent to kill in anger
by a hateful deranged figure
Hands up
Don't shoot
We're tough but not
Bulletproof
Ho hey! NRA!
How many souls did you kill today?
Ho hey! NRA!
How many deaths you facilitate?
Ho hey! NRA!
How many souls did you kill today?
Ho hey! NRA!
How many hearts did you break today?
Hands up
Don't shoot
We're tough but not
Bulletproof
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Barack
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BARACK
Hundred fifty years after Lincoln
Two score more after King
Black man becomes President
Slave spirits sing, sing
You old South
Damn your dixie flag
Closed hearts
Transcend your hateful rag
Barack, Barack, Barack
Barack, Barack, Barack
Barack, Barack, Barack
Modern day manumission
Twenty-first century
With Medgar Evers' widow
Thank God I lived to see, to see
Barack, Barack, Barack
Barack, Barack, Barack
Barack, Barack, Barack
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