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lyrics
You Can Protest All You Want, Gets you out of the house!
MIGHT make new friends, Stop being a DORMOUSE
Be sure to wear a Mask, Make a CUTTING-EDGE Sign—
But Wear your running shoes, they might keep you from dyin’—
But will you protest for years and years?
Protest for decades, CENTURIES?
Will you protest for YEARS? You’ve nothin’ else to do!
Your jobs are mostly gone, there’s no more school
Helicopters overhead all day and night
It’s the new soundtrack: Apocalypse-lite—
You Can Protest all you want, till the cows come home
But what will REALLY change, in the EXTRA-LONG-TERM?
CHORUS Police will shoot people, that’s what they’re trained to do
But a sheriff just got slaughtered in sleepy Santa Cruz (E)
600 million guns in America take heed
More guns than people, in the Land of the Free—
And we need to all go GREEN, with our ENERGY
As Greta Thunberg said, It’s our ONLY DESTINY
People go hungry, every single day
Yet millions of tons of food still get thrown away
It’s blamed on “SUPPLY CHAINS” that had a big DISRUPT
When Tourism, Hotels, restaurants went belly-up—
When no one’s got a job, will rent forgiveness come?
Will there be UBI? It works in FINLAND
We wonder: What’s our future REALLY going to be?
Some tech jobs, restaurant work but LOTS of delivering
Bring back the W.P.A., there’s plenty to DO
Get paid for Making Art, Make the World BEAUTIFUL
And Universal Healthcare, Forgive all Student Loans
They do this in Europe, Why not here at home?
CHORUS We need new laws, like no more choke-holds
We need WEALTH TAX, Nothin’ left to lose
We need more education: for equality
We need Black Executives & Women CEOS—
But Will you protest, till the end of time?
Protest Till **EVERYTHING** is BOTH yours and mine—
YOURS EVERYONE’S EVERYTHING EQUALITY
credits
released June 10, 2020
Piano & vocals: V. Vale
Produced by Marian Wallace
An original member of Blue Cheer (when it was a 6-man band) V. Vale put down his instruments to publish Search & Destroy in 1977. He now plays for friends and for fun, channelling music for our listening pleasure.
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