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History gets repeated
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The climate gets slowly warmer
The storms get slowly stormier
Strangeness gets normalized
We get desensitized
The politics gets heated
History gets repeated
The pace of things gets quicker
The advertising slicker
The voices get louder
Factories make gunpowder
The have-nots don’t get seated
History gets repeated
It’s the age-old story
The promise of fame and glory
The lies we want to believe
The ways we are naïve
Some of us get cheated
History gets repeated
(c) M. Skliar 2017
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They get the white folks believing this point of view
That minorities and immigrants get more than they do
They get the poor folk believing they’ll be rich one day
And that evil government’s gonna take it away
It’s the all day all night, uptight alt-right, fake news you lose blues
Climate change is not real they’ve convinced their base
Cause what could NASA know about the earth and space
The oil and gas lobby a smokescreen they’ve erected
The same folks said smoking and cancer not connected
It’s the all day all night, uptight alt-right, fake news you lose blues
They got you convinced you’re gonna need more guns
Causing more school shootings of your daughters and your sons
They use religious teaching to make their case
But the Jesus I read about would laugh in their face
It’s the all day all night, uptight alt-right, fake news you lose blues
That’s the right wing playbook, the Republicans play it well
It’s a sure fire ticket to have all but the rich folks go to hell
They gin us up with fear of the immigrant
But they don’t care ‘bout hacking by the Russian government
House districts gerrymandered, its not just bad luck
If you don’t know what that means, go look it up
It’s the all day all night, uptight alt-right, fake news you lose blues
© M. Skliar 2017
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Some call him ‘wanker’ some call him ‘troll’
Some just point at their TV’s and say ‘that asshole’
Some use words that describe what’s in a toilet bowl
I call him the orange disaster
The bar has gotten lower with every passing minute
No sane person’s thinking, for a leader he’s at all fit
Watching Madness is fun, but not when you’re in it
I call him the orange disaster
They’re replacing the white house with a merry go round
All my ancestors turning over in the ground
Hey there doc you better lay it on thick
These news reports are making me sick
Its like reality’s been infected with a bloodsucking tick
I call it the orange disaster
The horrors keep on coming faster and faster
It’s a course in fascism run by a master
You might need a bomb shelter says the weather forecaster
I call it the orange disaster
(c) M. Skliar
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How hard
How hard is it
To say Nazis are bad
How crazy
How crazy is he
The orange disaster’s mad
Would you look at the Jews and Adolph Hitler and say both sides are to blame
Would you finally agree with me, the president is insane
How stupid
How stupid is he
How stupid and full of hate
How much
How much do we need
To have a different head of state
Would you look at one side holding swastikas and say both sides are to blame
Would you finally agree with me, the president is insane
How easy
How easy is it
To pander to haters and fools
How destructive can you be and still keep the job
There outta be a rule
Would you look at the Jews and Adolph Hitler and say both sides are to blame
Would you finally agree with me, the president is insane
How hard
How hard is it
To say Nazis are bad
How crazy
How crazy is he
The orange disaster’s mad
© M. Skliar 2017
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Antidote
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There’s a new dance step its sweeping the nation
Its called “Cover your eyes and your ears”
Don’t listen or watch that orange disaster
He’s even worse than we feared
It’s a dance step borne out of necessity
Otherwise we’d be sick all the time
Cause following those tweets and crazy speeches
You could really lose your mind
But peacefully resist
Find a way out of this
Don’t forget to vote
Collectively, we all are the antidote
Make America great again, Get rid of the hate again
We’ve done it before, let’s make a plan
This is still the same country that not too many years ago
In a landslide, said ‘yes we can’
So open your ears and eyes, to the parade of lies
Let your opinions be known
Support local candidates, volunteer & step up to the plate
This is our country and our home
But peacefully resist
Find a way out of this
Don’t forget to vote
Collectively, we all are the antidote
© M. Skliar 2017
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Sheriff Joe
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Have you heard the news trump pardoned Sheriff Joe x2
that racist SOB
even for him that's sinking pretty low
Has Trump ever met a racist who he did not think was good x2
You know when it walks like a duck and quacks like a duck , this is like a duck wearing a white hood
Trumps father was arrested at a KKK rally x2
Trump peddled the birther lie to every Tom Dick and Harry
Sheriff Joe arrested almost every Latino that he saw
He was supposed to be enforcing not breaking the law
In the Arizona heat he kept his inmates outside
150 committed suicide
Trump pardoned this racist
Another outrage for our list (starting to get the jist ?)
He has got to go
now that Trump has pardoned Sheriff Joe
(c) M. Skliar
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Here’s a little news about the GOP
The party of Lincoln who set the slaves free
But starting with Nixon’s southern strategy
The party of Lincoln is now the party of Lee
Voter suppression’s the new reality
Disqualify blacks and minorities
Its part of their playbook, its one of their keys
The party of Lincoln is now the party of Lee
They chase scared whites with no college degree
Cultivating fear and making it ugly
Demonizing immigrants from overseas
The party of Lincoln is now the party of Lee
You can say I’m wrong and that you disagree
But I can say this without hyperbole
The birther lie’s believed by half of your party
The party of Lincoln is now the party of Lee
Put this up on every marquee
Yell it from the hills like it’s a sacred decree
It’s a sad fact but it’s reality
The party of Lincoln is now the party of Lee
I will make you this one guarantee
When the republicans lose I will react with glee
Feel free to sing this along with me
The party of Lincoln is now the party of Lee
© M. Skliar 2017
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Cheapened and lowered
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Only wall you'll need
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Foul play
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Dreamers
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Everyone’s ancestors came from away
They had to dream big, in order to stay
We need those dreamers who dream of the stars
It’s those dreams that make us what we all are
(c) M. Skliar
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