What You Think You Know
Every day you are up in my face, telling me what you think you know
Every day got me feeling disgrace, one of us must go
Frightful words spewed from your maga phone, telling me what you think you know
How did you turn your heart to cold stone, every day some new fear in you grows
We used to talk; talk for hours
and then we'd walk, look at wild flowers
We used to stand, stand together
and when we fell, we caught each other
Every day brings another dollar, telling me to prioritize
Every day that the colors matter, what a compromise
Preaching manifold old deceptions, anti christ only telling lies
Hell is waiting on new receptions, every day some new part of you dies
We used to talk; talk for hours
and then we'd walk, look at wild flowers
We used to stand, stand together
and when we fell, we caught each other
J.R. Holsem/A.R. Holsem
2020-12-29
What You Think You Know
During the COVID crisis year of 2020, I was playing around with a simple distorted guitar rock riff. Alex was in the background for a few of my improvisational sessions so I asked her for a tune and some lyrics. She provided both, although I completely changed the latter. We both were aiming for some kind of criticism of the political environment at the time, in particular our disappointed with the evangelical Christians in America in general and many from our church and school in particular who were obsessed (positively) with Donald Trump and thought that he was somehow a great hero ordained by God to be president. From our point of view, these people had completely lost their sense of reason and were not thinking logically nor processing all the information available to them. We could understand that some Christians might have voted for him due to his stance on abortion and maybe because they thought he would guide the country’s economy well because he was supposedly an experienced and successful businessman and he had promoised to “drain the swamp” in Washington. But to think and say out loud that he had great moral character and wasn’t a bullying, racist, narcissistic misogynist and that he didn’t lose the election in November 2000 was just too much for us to bear. The damage done to our country and to all of us by the “fake” news claims (from left and right), outright lies by politicians and prominent newscasters that went unchecked, excessive “wokeness” on the left, both left and right refusing to even listen to the other side’s point of view seemed irreparable at that moment in time. Meanwhile, numerous police killings of black men (e.g. George Floyd) and racially motivated civilian murders of black men continued apace, with President Trump at best doind and saying nothing and at time making things worse.
Music:
No comments:
Post a Comment