Here I am tapping on your earbuds,
not quite a rap but map of the new flood
The blood of the nation is stuck in frustration
We came so far and now this desecration

We held these truths to be self-evident
The trust of the country’s embodied in the President
And now its a clown with fascist leanings
No wonder me and all of my friends are screaming

we grew up on ‘we the people’ and ‘we shall overcome’
we knew that the fight for the rights of everyone
would not be resolved and all solved in one lifespan
but the shit that’s going down, all I can say is goddamn

theres no language that’s got enough salt to convey it
forget about whose fault, we got to keep on saying it
this ......... in the oval office
at the rate he’s going , he’s going to off us

he’ll kill everything that’s got some humanity
a long time ago we passed insanity
while Fox news cheers it, like fucking sean Hannity
theres no language strong enough, not even profanity
they actually believe they’re cloaked in Christianity
but Jesus would be puking from the lies and the vanity

I’m Jewish but I’d still love Christ to come back
Confront that narcissistic orange-skin maniac
Give him a taste of how he treats the working class
Thru the eye of a needle let his fat ass try to pass

Here I am tapping on your earbuds,
not quite a rap but map of the new flood
The blood of the nation is stuck in frustration
We came so far and now this desecration

Nation! We got work to do, voting booths to go to,
campaigns to get thru, let me give a preview
its not gonna come just out of the blue
if we want to see change we got to be the change
channel that outrage, don’t just rearrange

try to stay sane, keep working for the prize
and the big surprise
when American democracy overcomes lies

it’s happened before, it can happen again
all the girls and the boys and the women and the men
and those who identify otherwise, still our friends!

Join me, join you, join every group you see
Like the grass in the grass roots democracy
Light up, light big, fire up the big rig
Twenty years of schoolin’ its time to fight the bigwigs

And here we are tapping on your earbuds,
not quite a rap but a map of the new flood
The blood of the nation is stuck in frustration
Its more then a revolution, it’s a revelation!

Here we come a million people strong
new founding fathers and mothers who know its wrong
for the blood of the nation to be stuck in frustration
lets have a revolution, lets have a revelation!


(c) M. Skliar 2018