This is for the lovers, and those who suffer, this is for those who share This is for those who care, for the cats that think of others This is for my sisters, this is for my brothers This is for the people who reach out, this is for the people who speak out This is to remind you that the times are changing, and the work you've done is amazing This is to assure you of of community, this is to prove to you that you are beautiful
Dance, dance, away your problems Close your eyes and feel the rhythm Wiggle, your liga-ments , Dance like your born again Twist and turn, your limbs Forget your guilt and sins Dance with the people Feel us near
Shake your hips Pucker your lips Hold my hand Make our stand
Close your eyes And dance with us Let the bass heal The past is dust Gotta stop running Feel the change coming? Your not the only one On your face, feel the sun Reject the race, here we come
Shake your hips Pucker your lips Hold my hand Make our stand
Gotta let the anger go Don't let the paranoia show Stop watering the hate Control your fate Time to take control Shake yourself awake Less copy and more create
Shake your hips Pucker your lips Hold my hand Make our stand
We all have a choice, To ignore the suffering or to stand in unison To tan under the sun, or to stand to fight with voice and feet The revolution and the anger Does not make us, we were born as lovers This toil will never break us, we love undercover This battle for oil, has made so many suffer Human arrogance obliterates the Earth system This hate Does not belong to us The hopelessness in the lives we pursue The racism and bigotry This pain and frustration Does not belong to us The terror of war and fear of rape, the forsaken youth The hungry and poor, the love draining into bloody pools Does not belong to us The screaming of people in agony is haunting me Everyday more voices added to the cacophony Why must the world hurt for our pleasure Why do we allow everything to die The warm misery spatters on our eyes The death and the fixation on pain My deepest recess is my only escape A tiny room in the attic of my memory palace I sit huddled and listen to the pain and terror of the people The untouchable with no names, shivering along with the millions of cold Surrounded by the smell of meat and the poisoning of the soil And the dying stench of our putrid flesh Gas in the air and the ignorance of your stare No place to hide from the virus of capitalism Its tendrils wisping into my psyche Seducing me... with infection.... while I sleep
I believed in peace and love Laying underneath the universe that spins above Touching the leaves lightly when I walked The experimental words my mouth talked Dancing in the rain, fingers streched to the sky Pain was a strange thing and I didn't fear dying Humming songs not yet written Led by instincts and not indecision And making art everywhere I existed I remember when being soft was not sissy Watching the ants and bees work Asking everyone questions late into the day With no concept of time or design No understanding of the grind to be mine Laughing until my cheeks hurt I only knew better and had never met worse Born a child of Babylon Not sure, I got the strength to carry on I did not suspect or protect myself from The weight that awaited me, this hate has forsaken me Our roots are deep, stop shaking the branches of the tree
