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Explaining Socialism
05:35
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Explaining socialism to Americans
Is a blindfolded class in self-defense
A contrary pursuit
Digging out the root
Arriving at the truth
Come on let’s take this journey all Americans
You have been very sick but now you’re well again
And now there’s work to do
We need alternatives
The Wall Street crap shoot
Won’t let you live
Come on everybody kiss your country
Liberal is a fancy word for free
Socialism just means society
I saw your Mom at the library last week
If you’re a cop, a soldier or a politician
Or a fat cat Wall Street Republican
You are an actual socialist American
Because the working class
Pays out the ass
To give you a pass
And we all deserve that kind of love
From the big bad government up above
But they got it wrong in the USSR
And all the other places where the fascists are
Come on everybody hug your country
Liberal is a fancy word for free
Socialism just means society
Saw your sister at the post office last week
Let me try another explanation
If your job is garbage or tax collection
Or roadside maintenance or firefighting
Or postal worker or high school teacher
Or public defender or libra-ri-an
Or union stagehand or electrician
You are participating in socialism
Because the working masses pay their taxes
And we all get access
While there’s a soul in prison, I am not free
While there’s a kid in a cage, so are you and me
But if you try to give the people socialism
In the form of healthcare and education
Or try to raise their living wages
Then they will have to stage a violent revolution
To keep the people free from free elections
They choose their favorite fascist
and they close their eyes
And hope that democracy will magically survive
So in closing let me just reiterate
The richest country in the world is the USA
There’s no need or excuse for poverty
If we have socialism for you and me
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No more bloated elephant
No more Nazi president
Crush the lying coward fox
And the greedy rabid hawks
No more military dogs
Dressed in racist camouflage
We don’t need your tanks and planes
Killing people in our name
Stealing money from the teachers
Justified by lying preachers
No more billion dollar toys
For those bullet-headed boys
Take a knee for planet earth
Nothing special about your birth
They were on the island first
Your tribe made it so much worse
Holding up a dusty book
Justifying what you took
But the people want it back
Step aside for red and black
So we gotta help our mother
Squash the elephant and fox
They want us to kill each other
With their guns and with their pox
Give the people reparations
Undivide the separation
Make a place for scientific truth
If it kills or if it saves you
Are we safe from fratricide
Uniformed in white pride
Lying lions, lie in wait
Propping up a dying state
Hypocrites are using hate
To jerk off the USA
Sing if you’re a human being
Who’s awake and who can see
Don’t ever go back to sleep
And wake up a slaughtered sheep
Better take it to the streets
Be obnoxious or discreet
While dismantling the state
There is no more time to wait
Constitution of this nation
Needs corruption vaccination
Smash the elephant and fox
And dismantle all the locks
We have all gone mad with virus
But this virus can unite us
No more tearing us apart
Use the rage inside your heart
No more tearing us apart
Use the love inside your heart
Give the people reparations
Undivide the separation
Now’s the time to stand and fight for truth
If it kills or if it saves you
Woke up from a fever dream
Strong and ready to redeem
Now’s the time to stand and fight for truth
If it kills or if it saves you
We all have the love inside us
And this virus can unite us
Everybody stand and fight for truth
If it kills or if it saves you
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Big Flag
03:04
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My flag’s bigger than your flag’s bigger than
my sign’s bigger than all the signs on your lawn
My gun’s bigger than your hair trigger than
my gun’s bigger than all your tanks and your bombs
My conspiracy fake news rabbit hole
paranoid dark web is better than any drug
My truck’s bigger than your truck’s bigger
than my ATV will crush you like a bug
Let’s go pump the last drop of oil
and melt all the glaciers with the polar bears
Let’s drive a tank through the Amazon
and pave all the forests into parking lots
Let’s take a dump on the constitution
and toss it on the statue of honest Abe
You’re telling me that there’s a possible solution
but I’m not interested if I have to cooperate
Allow me to elaborate
My flag’s bigger than your flag’s bigger than your sign’s bigger
than all the signs on your lawn
My fear’s bigger than your fears
Bigger than my hair trigger than
all your peace and your love
My red’s redder than your truth bluer than your white’s
Whiter than any red, white and blue
My one and one equals three
Two and two equals five
Don’t believe it?
I’ll crush the truth like a slug
My flag’s bigger than your flag.
Do some donuts break some laws
and hug me like a firefighter
My flag’s bigger than any flag
Stick your nozzle in my tank
and pump it till it overflows
My flag’s bigger than any other flag
Light it up and shoot it down
just set it all on fire.
My flags bigger than all the other flags
Animals are target practice
Give me freedom, hippie, give it up
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Open Kimono New York, New York
Pierre de Gaillande is a Paris-born musician and producer living in New York. Pierre plays guitar and sings in New York
bands Open Kimono and Bad Reputation, and composes music for film and TV. Pierre’s groups have toured Europe, Canada, Russia and the U.S.A. regularly, as well as performing frequently in New York.
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