Maybe watching cable news makes it seem like there’s no hope: Democracy, justice, progress, escaping ecological calamity, even human decency are lost causes. But writing off all hope everything good and/or hopeful is a self-fulfilling prophecy, that’s obvious. So, may you still believe. Here’s the words to a song about all that (with an mp3 below them):
MAY YOU STILL BELIEVE
WHEN YOU WERE YOUNG
YOU SAID LOVE WOULD FIND A WAY
TO BRING PEACE ON EARTH
SURE AS DAWN COMES EVERY DAY
BUT NOW YOU’RE GROWN
WATCHIN THAT CABLE NEW
AND SEEIN HOW THINGS ARE
SURE GIVES YOU THE BLUES
CHORUS:
MAY YOU STILL BELIEVE
MAY YOU STILL BELIEVE
DESPITE ALL THE NEWS YOU RECEIVE
MY FRIEND–MAY YOU STILL BELIEVE
IN SCHOOL YOU PLEDGED
YOURSELF TO THE LAND OF THE FREE
ONE LAND UNDER GOD–JUSTICE AND LIBERTY
NOW STEAD OF BLACK
AND WHITE THERE’S SHADES OF GRAY
WHAT’S JUST AND WHO IS FREE
SOME DAYS YOU CAN’T SAY
CHORUS
YOU SAY THAT GOD
IS WHERE WE GO AND ALL COME FROM
YOU SAY THAT GOD IS LOVE
AND GOD’S RULE ONE DAY WILL COME
YET MADMEN BATHE IN BLOOD
TO PLEASE THEIR GOD
AND ASK GOD TO BLESS THEIR
CRUSADE OR JIHAD
CHORUS/REPEAT CHORUS
Check out the recording:
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