SING THAT FREEDOM SONG!
To convey our message to the population,
Oftentimes complex ideas take too long.
The news will air some puzzling truncation.
Say it briefly and with beauty in a song!
TV soundbytes are perceived as so much blather,
And will be reacted to dismissively.
The viewers of the nightly news would rather
Absorb new thoughts with rhyme and melody.
We can faintly hear the chimes of freedom ringing
While establishing our frisky form of order,
But if we don’t find our voice and get to singing,
This project won’t project beyond the border.
Shouting vicious insults, making threats, and ranting
Won’t reflect repute as reasoned paragons.
Neither will the weak resort to mindless chanting
Like obsequious tea-party neocons.
There’s a way to show ourselves and those around us
That the violence behind the State is wrong:
If we stand steadfast and staunchly as cops pound us,
We’ll promote our peaceful protest with a song.
When our heads are bashed and tear-gassed eyes are stinging,
And we’re cuffed and being led away to jail,
If we don’t find our voice and get to singing,
This effort gets an “F” for total fail.
Prior movements set a firm example for us:
Every one that lasted had its balladeers.
Voices still combine to rise in soaring chorus
Of songs immortalized throughout the years.
We can silently continue our exertion
To form the free world where we all belong,
But to fully write “FINIS” to State coercion,
Better find and formulate our freedom song!
There’s a heavy haul of heart and hope we’re bringing,
To ideas we, bizarrely, still must prove–
But if we don’t find our voice and get to singing,
This movement isn’t ever going to move.
Anyone who agrees is enthusiastically invited to get in touch to participate in a project to make lots of liberty music! Whether you compose, play, sing, know sound engineering or videography, or just like to listen and think you know enough to contribute ideas, we want to hear from you to help quell the above-expressed admonishments that so toemented me, they had to come gushing out as a song! (A song without a melody, as yet–any composers want to give it a try?)
Contact me on the forum, and join the band!
