Kim Eaton

Raise Your Voice: Songs of Resistance From the Nation’s Capital Lyrics

Hold On

Everything feels crazy

Everything’s gone mad

They’re trying to confuse us

Take everything that we have

They are playing the oldest game

Distract you as they shift the blame

We’ve got to hold on to each other

The best that we can

I’ve got you if you’ve got me

We have to take a stand

We can’t let them tear us apart

We have to be strong, we have to believe

We’re gonna make it through

So hold on.

They’re tearing us apart

They’re doing all they can

They want to erase us, they want to replace us

It’s part of their plan

And if you don’t fall in line

They’ll leave you far behind

We’ve got to hold on to each other

The best that we can

I’ve got you if you’ve got me

We have to take a stand

We can’t let them tear us apart

We have to be strong, we have to believe

We’re gonna make it through

Don’t you dare give up

Don’t you dare give in

Don’t you dare bow out

Don’t you let them win

If we remember what’s at stake

We won’t have a reason to break

We’ve got to hold on to each other

The best that we can

I’ve got you if you’ve got me

We have to take a stand

We can’t let them tear us apart

We have to be strong, we have to believe

We’re gonna make it through

So hold on.

Crimson

Crimson ran through the gutters unceasing

A carnage illusory as tyranny was creeping

It wasn’t what we thought a paint overflowed

But in the current climate it seems apropos

A symbolic hue, we were paralyzed

Our work destroyed with a devil’s kiss

We’re told to believe not what we see

But crimson’s impossible to miss

Crimson was everywhere that sunlight could reach

It wasn’t human plasma, just mud on a beach

And yet it represented a liberty dying

The endless wreckage, despair was rising

A symbolic hue, we were paralyzed

Our work destroyed with a devil’s kiss

We’re told to believe not what we see

But crimson’s impossible to miss

Fill the gaps with apprehension running wild

Paint a picture of an unprotected child

Tears run into puddles splashing as we go

Where’s the end of all the comforts that we know

Crimson was blanketing the ground after dark

Not what we suspected, just flowers in the park

But shortness of breath came, we all were on edge

Afraid to submit to a loyalty pledge

A symbolic hue, we were paralyzed

Our work destroyed with a devil’s kiss

We’re told to believe not what we see

But crimson’s impossible to miss

Fill the gaps with apprehension running wild

Paint a picture of an unprotected child

Tears run into puddles splashing as we go

Where’s the end of all the comforts that we know

Speak Up!

What you gonna do when they come for your neighbor

When they tear apart families of migrant labor

Because I'm gonna stand up and fight in their favor

What you gonna do when they seize your body

Colonize your womb, make your gender their hobby

When they come I'm gonna scream loudly

Yeah I'm gonna speak up

Be the squeaky wheel

Fight for those I love

Declare the things I feel

This land is yours

This land is mine

It's not for sale

It not for kings

Hear my battle cry

What you gonna do when they hate your love

Deny your marriage and the stars above

I will hold your hand in a gentle hug

So what you gonna do when they cut your job

Taking you for granted and leaving your robbed

Joined my union and we’ll march

Yeah I'm gonna speak up

Be the squeaky wheel

Fight for those I love

Declare the things I feel

This land is yours

This land is mine

It's not for sale

It not for kings

Hear my battle cry

What you gonna do when there's nothing left

No people, no targets for their theft

Well it's too late now to just feel bereft

Were all in this together It ain't just you and me

We the people all together of a rainbow country

We may not be great, well we've never really been

But down here in Virginia it's "Sic Semper Tyrannis"

Yeah we’re gonna speak up

Be the squeaky wheel

Fight for those we love

Declare the things we feel

This land is yours

This land is mine

It's not for sale

It’s not for kings

Hear our battle cry

I Don’t Want Your Billions, Mister

I don’t want your billions mister

I don’t want your rocket ships
All I want is the right to live mister
A doctor’s care when my kids are sick

I don’t want your Tesla mister
I don’t want your crypto coin
All I want is a steady paycheck
A living wage and union to join

What right you got wrecking our country

You rob and steal and bleed it dry

There ain’t no one vote for you mister

It’s just a grift and a stack of lies

I don’t want your billions mister

I don’t want your rocket ships
All I want is the right to live mister
A doctor’s care when my kids are sick

I don’t want your future mister I don’t want to live on Mars All I want is to save this planet Protect Mother Earth ‘cause she’s all of ours

I don’t want your billions mister I don’t want your rocket ships
All I want is the right to live mister
A doctor’s care when my kids are sick

Woke

Once we called it reconstruction, we called it civil rights

We called it social justice, we call it DEI

And every time someone says, “They’re pushing way too far.”

They forgot how hard we had to push to get to where we are

You say I’m woke, I say I’m trying to be fair

You say I’m radical, I say I care

About the words our founding fathers wrote but their slaves couldn’t read

And all the black folks who were strung up for saying what they please

Well, call it what you want, just show me how you live

Do you share what you inherited or take more than you give?

Do you greet a stranger with a helping hand or with a sneer?

Are you seeing what’s inside a man or feeding all your fear?

You say I’m woke, I say we’re trying to pay a debt

You say I’m radical, I say I can’t forget

All the words our founding fathers wrote that the natives couldn’t read

And all their children who were taken for believing what they please

It’s so easy to pass judgement on the way things used to be

‘Cause we’re not like they were then, we’re enlightened, you and me

But each of us is blind in at least one of our eyes

The question is who knows it, who’s living in a lie

“Aw, can’t we just move on,” you say, “We settled up the score.

We gave you what we could, stop asking us for more.”

But what will future generations have to say

When they’re reading all about us in their history books one day …?

We called it women’s suffrage, we called it equal rights

We called it women’s lib, now we call it DEI

And every time somebody says, “they’re pushing way too far”

They forgot how hard we had to push to get to where we are

You say I’m woke, I say we’re trying to right some wrongs

You say I’m radical, I say I’m going along

With all the words our founding fathers wrote that their wives couldn’t read

And all their daughters who were beaten for dressing as they please

You say I’m woke, I say I’m trying to be kind

You say I’m radical, I say I keep in mind

All the words our founding fathers wrote that everyone should read

And all the couples who were locked up for loving who they please

And the people who were kept down

And the people who were shot down

And the people who died trying

Just trying to live free, just like you and me

Fight Back

Treason is the reason for impeachment

Bigotry’s the drug they try to sell

Only ugly billionaires can reach them

In a ballroom made of secrets they won’t tell

Did you want to raise your kids in North Korea?

Go camping by a strip mine in the Fall

Hoping that the thug patrol don’t see ya

If you’ve ever pointed out what parts are small

Don’t wait my friends this country’s on fire

Don’t wait my friends the doves have all flown

Fight back with us the flame’s rising higher

Fight back with us with fire of our own

You better keep your money in your mattress

Get a chicken and hope that it will lay

Pray the coming weather’s not disastrous

Cuz America right now is pay to play

Did you think the leopards wouldn’t come for your face?

After plucking your neighbors off the street

Who’ll be left to testify in your case?

They’ll be wiped out by some once defunct disease

Think fondly of a time when there were warrants

When arrests and seizures had a cause

Now the jails they send you to are foreign

Free at last from all those pesky laws

Have you seen the famous statue in the green gown?

Beacon for those yearning to be free

She’s looking for a place to set her torch down

Woman of color who won’t go quietly

Don’t wait my friends, this country’s on fire

Don’t wait my friends, the doves have all flown

Fight back with us the flame’s rising higher

Fight back with us, fight back because

You care what the future holds

Care that the truth be told

Know the true meaning of great

Come stand with the rest of us

Fight with the best of us

Raise a fist in resistance today!

Don’t wait, Fight back, Don’t wait, Fight back

Fight back, fight back, fight back

RESIST

The Museum of American Mascots

I shot a bald eagle

and a buffalo

don’t care if it’s illegal

gonna post the photo

so the whole damn world will know

just what I’ve done

Surely some people will condemn me

but others will arise to defend me

start a GoFundMe page to pay my legal bills

Gonna stuff the buffalo

mount the eagle to a drone

and fly it round the flag

in front of my home

and do interviews

with the media

on my front lawn

Surely some people will condemn me

but others will arise to defend me

start a GoFundMe page to pay my legal bills

And I’d like to announce to the public

my latest construction project

the big and beautiful

Museum of American Mascots Resort Casino

and the main attraction is

this dead buffalo and eagle

Gonna carpet the lobby

in rattlesnake skin

so you can tread on it

when you walk on in

we got nickel slots

guaranteed to hit the jackpot once a day

Enjoy your stay

at the great big beautiful

Museum of American Mascots Resort Casino

and it all started with this dead buffalo and eagle

Conman

Been workin’ on this steamboat, 20 years or more

Keep them engines runnin’, know just how they go.

I know that handbook inside out, know 10 times more than that

Mutiny’s never crossed my mind, crew’s scared stiff, I’ve got to act.

There’s a conman in the captain’s chair, swingin’ us left and right

Throwin’ people overboard, y’know that that ain’t right.

Someone’s got to take control, keep us from a wreck

Get this boat back on the beam, save everybody’s neck!

I saw this man out late last year, wagon on the road,

Hawkin’ patent medicines, selling land to fools!

Them bottles turned up empty, land ain’t worth a note

He just takes folks for all they’re worth, now he runs the boat!

There’s a conman in the captain’s chair, swingin’ us left and right

Throwin’ people overboard, (as long as they ain’t rich or white).

Someone’s got to take control, keep us from a wreck

Get this boat back on the beam, save everybody’s neck!

I ‘ve seen captains that were friendly, captains that were mean.

Seen captains couldn’t get it right, seen captains sharp and keen

This one talks but just don’t even know which end is which

He’ll kill us all and drive this big boat right into a ditch!

There’s a conman in the captain’s chair, swingin us left and right

Throwin’ people overboard, y’know that just ain’t right

Someone’s got to take control, keep us from a wreck

Get this boat back on the beam, save everybody’s neck!

Save everybody’s neck

Queen

The daily news

Where chaos reigns

A madman rules

The whole world’s gone insane

The pendulum

it swung way, way too far

A woman in charge

Could rescue us from where we are

Maybe we need a queen

To usher in civility

Maybe we need a queen

That has humanity

Maybe we need a queen

That has empathy

To look beyond themselves

For all humanity

His lies and deceit

would fall away

A real leader

builds trust with what they say

And understands

What the people need

Like housing, clean air, health care,

Education and groceries

Maybe we need a queen

To usher in civility

Maybe we need a queen

That has humility

Maybe we need a queen

That has empathy

And loves beyond themself

For all humanity

The way of a loving queen

Is through connection

Like the Queen of Sheeba

she’ll ask a lot of questions

Fostering the truth

no more division

Considers the impact on future generations

Maybe we need a queen

To usher in civility

Maybe we need a queen

That has resiliency

Maybe we need a queen

That has empathy

And loves beyond themself

For all humanity

A strong queen would use

her intuition

Her wisdom with powerful compassion

She’d fight for liberty, freedom and justice for all

She’d listen and she would answer the call

Maybe we need a queen

To usher in civility

We sure don’t need a king

Destroying democracy

What we really need

Is a woman in the presidency

A woman…

It Could’ve Been A Woman

We could’ve had a bed of roses

We could’ve had a time

We could’ve had another era

Of what’s mine is yours and yours is mine

We could’ve had a wild phase

Instead of facing end of days

Can’t say I didn’t see it comin’

It could’ve been a woman

We could’ve had a beauty queen

With flowers in her hair

We might not have to fear no man

Or think to choose the bear

We could’ve tasted better days

Instead of drowning in malaise

We really could’ve become something

It could’ve been a woman

We could’ve had a better hand

We could’ve followed better plans

Now we’re left with less than nothing

We could’ve had an all-star team

We could’ve had a smile

Life would be the sweetest dream

Guess it won’t be for a while

We could’ve done a better job

But we got cheated and we got robbed

Half the time, I don’t feel human

It could’ve been a woman

We could’ve had a better shot

But now we’re stuck with what we got

Man, our engine would be hummin’

It could’ve been a woman

It could’ve been our world

We could’ve had a woman

Why can’t it be a woman

A LITTLE GOOD TROUBLE

We need some good trouble … some good trouble

Old John Lewis had the right idea

how to get the attention of the powers that be

We got to stand up and march, and let’s make it clear,

that we don't intend to ever live in fear

We need some good trouble (good trouble) got to have some good trouble (good trouble) we need some good trouble (good trouble)

When you’re sitting there watching the TV News, and all the insanity gives you the blues

Then after a while you've got a pretty short fuse then you remember: 'Hey! we get to choose’

We need some good trouble (good trouble)

Might be time to start a little good trouble, don't ya just sit there in your own little bubble

suffer in silence, and the bad feelings double

might be time to start a little good trouble

(a little good trouble)

The founding fathers did some pretty good things, when they wrote up the rules about having No Kings... Theres a balance of power that we've got to maintain We can't give any one man free reign

So don’t you just give up your right to free speech you might be surprised, how far your voice will reach... If you're concerned and about to freak out you just can't be shy, and ya gotta speak right out

Peaceful protest is everyone's right Never surrender it, fight the good fight we're not just trying to raise a fuss but we gotta remind them they answer to us

We need some good trouble (good trouble)

Ponle Fin

Elena & Los Fulanos

A las mujeres les dicen

Que sean buenas

Que se ajusten

Que se aguanten

A las mujeres les dicen

Que sean dulces

Sean lindas

“No se amarguen”

A los hombres les dicen

Que sean firmes

Que sean duros

Que maltraten

Yo no puedo aceptar esas cosas

Yo no suelo conformarme

Coro: Ponle fin pon fin, a eso

Ponle fin pon fin, a eso

Ponle fin pon fin

Ponle fin pon fin, a eso

Ponle fin pon fin

Hay personas que quieren decirte

A quienes tu puedes amar

Y después te llaman pecadores

Por quererte bien casar

Inmigrantes viven con horror

Que los vengan a deportar

Y los negros de la policía

Que los suelen fácil matar

No el machismo

No a la explotación

No a la homofobia

No, te digo no

No a la intolerancia

No a la deportación

No a el racismo

No, a Donald Trump

Rap interlude:

Hey, what year is this

So I can just

Start the list of places not to take trips in a time-ship
But if you happen to be stranded or on assignment

Look to your left, you'll see color and racial bias

The first of the two have already been proven by science

To just be the difference of sunshine
I'm just saying that the basis of races is determined by Melanin our skin from evolving in different places

And that doesn't, change the fact that I'm human

That doesn't change the fact that these isms are just illusions
Alternative facts can't justify what they are doing so don't give me reasons why we should start our movements

Let's do it, come on

English Translation:

They tell women

To be good

To be flexible

To be patient

They tell women

To be beautiful

To be sweet

“Don’t be bitter”

They tell men

To be firm

To be harsh

To mistreat others

I cannot accept these things

I cannot keep quiet

Chorus: Put an end, put an end, to that

Put an end, put an end, to that

Put an end, put an end

Put an end, put an end, to that

Put an end to that!

There are people who want to tell you

Who you can love

And then they call you sinners

For wanting to get married

Immigrants live with fear

That they’ll come deport them

And black people fear the police

Who so easily kill them

No to misogyny

No to exploitation

No to homophobia

No, I tell you no

No to intolerance

No to deportation

No to racism

No, to Donald Trump

Sad Little King

What rough beast

Has slouched up to the Hill

Spitting out its bile

drowning us in swill

Weak little tough guy

You think you’re so strong

You never met a fact that

You didn’t get wrong

Build a statue of yourself

We’ll only tear it down

The world outside is burning

While you’re eyeing up your crown

Sad little king

You’ve built your party of lies

We know the truth, we won’t be quiet

While you help our country die

You don’t even know

How impotent you are

You think that you’re a genius

When you’re just a reality star

I wish I could hate you

But you’re just too sad

So I’ll save my contempt

And pity you instead

You put your hands down our pants and you rummage around

You violate our rights and shove us to the ground

But we know what’s truth and we know what’s right

We’ve overthrown before and we won’t give up the fight!

You Sad Little King!!!

Resist

You tweeted 49,000 words today, 49,000 lies

The only word this world wants to hear you say is goodbye

You poison my planet with the venom pouring out of your black heart

Failing at everything you’ve ever done is your only true trademark

For what itʼs worth, I’ve stopped listening

I don’t know who could vote for this

I know the cost of freedom.... Resist.

I’m always amazed at the artlessness of your deal

But your rabble cheers you on while you lie, rape, pillage and steal

Greenland and Canada are not spaces in some sick boardgame

They’re not playgrounds,

They’re not possessions for you to ruin with your pawnshop name

For what itʼs worth, I’ve stopped listening.

I don’t know who could vote for this

I’ve found the cost of my freedom.... Resist.

I resist in the name of liberty

I resist with all my might

I resist for the sake of my children

And split your darkness with my light.

You wrap yourself up in the flag that never shows what’s underneath

Lay your hand on the Bible and then stand up and lie between your teeth

The whole world is watching and shaking its head in disbelief

For what itʼs worth, I’ve stopped listening

I won’t sit down and I won’t stand for this

I’ve found the cost of freedom... Resist

We Are Better Than This

We are better than this, better than this

Mahatma Gandhi reminds us of this

We are better than this, better than this

Mahatma Gandhi reminds us of this

We are better than the empire that you aspire

To mire us into your hate-filled quagmire

Where you hire liars to conceal your desires

And fill your offices with corporate vampires

We are better than this, better than this

Martin Luther King reminds us of this

We are better than this, better than this

Martin Luther King reminds us of this

You rule with deportation, tariffs and tolls

Pound your tiny fists like a nasty little troll

Fill the air with fear and try to steal our souls

You think you can drag us into your hole?

We are better than this, better than this

Nelson Mandela reminds us of this

We are better than this, better than this

Nelson Mandela reminds us of this

You can’t turn back the clock on all that has been fixed

We never will forget January 6

We won’t forget the chaos in the chambers and the halls

Or the hatred when they tried to scale the Capitol walls

You cannot make us put it all back on a shelf

We’ll live again by this: love thy neighbor as thyself

We are better than this, better than this

Gandhi, King, Mandela remind us of this

We are better than this, better than this

Gandhi, King, Mandela remind us of this

So think again, liar, ‘cause time will tell

That your narcissistic bravado creates its own hell

You pull us asunder

But I hear December thunder

Says your days will be numbered

Your feet will be encumbered

By the chains of your hate

As you face your fate

At hell’s burning gate

When your day of judgment speaks to the havoc you have wreaked

On the hungry, destitute, homeless and the meek

We’ll fly our flags with pride, wave them with joy

Rebuild and restore what you have destroyed

‘Cause we are better than this, better than this

Gandhi, King, Mandela remind us of this

‘Cause we are better than this, better than this

Gandhi, King, Mandela remind us of this

They believed in peace and they’d fight like hell

For those ideals, you know them well

It’s our turn now, let’s speak as one

And keep on fighting, we have just begun!

We are better than this, better than this

Keep on fighting, we have just begun

We are better than this, better than this

Keep on fighting, we have just begun

We’ll keep on fighting, we have just begun

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Raise Your Voice: Songs of Resistance From the Nation’s Capital Lyrics

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