110- The size of the lie will not make it true/ The clouds don't make the sky less blue
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109- Life has enough of hate unwound, will the real love stand up and be found
108- Voices and feet are out on the street, shaking the silent upper ground
107- A shift to the left, then a step to the right, skillfully dividing the American mind.
106- All’s not for one and one’s not for all/ and honesty honestly needs to be found
105- We yell and we fight to protect what is right, while the backroom players lay their money down.
104- And the elephants dwell on the snake oil they sell, 'cause the circus hasn't left this town
103- These are icy roads we’re sliding down, we’ve got to turn this thing around. (Verse)
102- Don’t be afraid, questions fade, like “what’s the color of your Koolaid?”
101- Gravity has no self control
Said the kid in the rabbit hole
100- Who do you trust, the doubts hang around, Come on, we've got pavement to pound.
99- But why is it aboveground I start to doubt
that out might be in and in might be out?
98- A lie is the truth and the truth is a lie, words fall with a hollow sound
97- Love is a verb and also a noun
In the American Underground
(Verse)
96- Found can be lost but lost can be found
In the American Underground
95- I am the world and I'm tired, but I can't take no leave/ No one has a conscience, they need and want and breathe
94- Grandma stood with giants
Mom marched with gloria
I stood on the capital steps
For you we did it all
In 73 we won it all, we swore that that was it
But here we are, I can’t believe
I still have to protest this shit
93- In my next life I want to be a man,
Today everybody wants to own my uterus and eggs.
This wouldn’t be an issue if I was a man.
I could make a deposit and say, “Bye Bye, Wham, Bam, thank you, Ma’am”
92- No uterus, no opinion.
91- I want to protest cell phones
They are the bane to one and all/
Going to make a sign that says so,
But first I gotta take this call
90- This country’s big and wide Enough to change these narrow minds
Hold on hold on cause the righteous right are wrong
89- I wanted to write a protest song but didn't know where to start / There are so many problems to choose from, it truely breaks my heart
88- Jenny was a trans kid, and getting through the day was hard enough, but the hatred in the student handbook wouldn't leave her alone.
87- They'll force her fetus to go to it's womb and stay there nine whole months
But there's programs, shelters, medicaid, drug rehab, and a free school lunch
86- There’s a crowd on the streets crying louder than ever
There’s no room for you here today
The shots you’ve called are now bouncing back
Like a boomerang in your way
85- This wall in my heart can take it no more
Getting stronger with each stone that you throw
84- I've kept my protests buried deep inside, and let others rock the boats/
Well, brother, believe there's about to be an explosion in my soul !
83- Gaze into the eyes of a dreamer / They see the world as it was meant to be
82- On the horns of a dilemma gettin' gored
Cause ignorance is gettin' too intense to be ignored
81- New York City's raining down on me,
Whole lotta people, nowhere to be,
New York City's Raining down on me
All----Over----Town...
80- You say you're right
I say you're wrong
We could have a fight
Or we could write this protest song
79- Gather round children, I'll sing you a song. Of all of the troubles in a world that's gone wrong. Of war and deception, of fear and of greed. Of everyone selling what nobody needs.
78- Don’t take what’s mine, I’ll take what’s yours, the righteous fight that fight.
Then hear them whine and cry their tears when their lies are given light.
77- My body My choice wants to be seen and heard
can you wait till I’m old enough to speak those words
76- Doomed to repeat, doomed to repeat
Look at the past, doomed to repeat
75- I’m right, you’re wrong,
I’ll tell you why in this song.
74- Until you’ve been where I’ve been, just leave it alone,
Until you’ve lived what I’ve lived, just leave it alone.
My body, my choice, just leave it alone.
73- Gonna make a sign and walk down the street- no looting, no riots, won't make a mess at all/ Tired of the lies, tired of the hate, tired enough to say "F it all"
72- Whoever took a supreme leak
Thanks for the heads up
71- I decide how to decorate my womb
These are my walls not yours
70- He had "This machine kills fascists" taped to his guitar/ but since Woody sang in protest, we haven't come that far
69- I think that it's ironic, that you've got to fight for peace/ and that it's easier to break the law, if you're the chief of police
68- Sometimes when the world’s goin’ to hell, you gotta let her / grandpa said it best, “the least you can say, the better”
67- Join me in a perpetual protest song, 'cause there's always someone somewhere doin' someone else wrong
So let's gather our voices and show them we're strong, and we'll knock them right back down to where they belong
66- I’m taking a break from breaking news,
saving my sanity, escaping the blues.
From here on out it’s clear what I need,
a diet of donuts, dunkin and Dolly.
65- So much hate and vitriol,
such true colors shining through/
Doors close and friendships end,
when people disagree with you
64- Thousands gather in the streets
To make their voices heard
Thou shalt not steal my civil rights
Is the cry amidst these words
63- This line in the sand just defines who we've been
We'll learn who we are when the tide comes in
62- Well some’r calling it the Atwood Prophecy,
Radical swings can ravage a democracy.
61- All these MAGA people pining for the good ol' days
When backseats were for black folks...and closets were for gays
60- We recall a time when peace prevailed without such crime and violence/ Now our world's being shot to hell, and we can't stand by in silence..
59- Nothing left in this bottle of whiskey, even the dreams it held have washed away/
Can I get an Amen to free refills, and at a slightly more polished grade?
58- I’m going to protest getting older, no politics to blame/
It’s unfair and I don’t like it, but I get older just the same
57- Don't want to hear the news, this world has gone insane.
My heart breaks with the tragedy, please give me back mundane!
56- Bombs sound the same in any language / tears fall the same on every face
55- Raise my voice and know I tried, or stay silent and die inside?
54- Unrequited love but it turns out you dodged a giant bullet.
52- Croocked pictures dangling from the wall of that why'd we do it wedding day last fall.
51- Musical: Ohio girl marries, has child. Moves to California, becomes pregnant courtesy of a millionaire. Marries millionaire, annuls marriage, divorces first husband (oops!), marries millionaire, again. Millionaire dies, she marries movie director next door. Divorces director, marries famous NFL coach. (Based on true story.)
50- Lost my head and shoulders, found my VO5
49- Let's not spend the night together.
48- The Swinging Door / The Flying Duck -
A confused waiter and a desperate chef run a bustling restaurant
47- If I Were Satan For A Day (just thought it was cool. everybody asks what they would do if they were God for a day. what would they do if they were the devil?)
46- Hi Jill! I hope you have fun with this collaboration! (not a theme, just a hello)
45- Faces on a train (and the stories behind them)
43- Road Trip to the last remaining Howard Johnson's Restaurants
42- Stumbled across a historical anecdote from the late 50s that really should have been a Kingston Trio song. But since they’re not here and you are… anyway, Google “The flights of Thomas Fitzpatrick.”
41- What would you do if you could do anything you wanted: a dream where it was a perfect day
40- Lost in the woods with Bigfoot
39- Space Junk: Thousands of satellites and other rocket debris in orbit around Earth—can’t see the sun for the satellites. Crashing stuff on the Moon. Mars is now littered with human-generated detritus.
38- Songwriters Anonymous - group therapy for the musically obsessed - who turn everyday into a song.
37- Merriments and meyhem
36- If Love Is An Illusion, Why Am I Really Hurt?
35- If Life Is An Illusion, Do I Still Have To Pay My Rent?
34- The Need For Pain (A song or songs about pain. Why do we need it/why do good people suffer; Sometimes pain is good/helps us realize things; Why do some people need to cause others pain to feel good about themselves, etc.).
32- 3rd Theme Submission: Brewcation. All the things that happened with beer/alcohol get mixed with vacation adventures
31- my 2nd Theme Submission for a Musical: "Every Four Bars," which could play on the ideas of drinking, musical bars, and chord progressions.
30- a Martian postcard home
29- Punch and Judy, behind the curtains
28- (Title idea) Where's The Door?
I look out the window but I'm not sure what I see...
27- You only listen when your talking
26- Berman Crashed My Magic Bullet Party!
25- Say You, Say Me, Say What? - Behind the Lyrics of Lionel Richie
23- Garden Party (the story of Eden from the snake's perspective)
22- Convention of Guiness Book of World Record Holders (one upmanship with the unusual cast of characters ensues)
21- When all the old souls are gone Who’s going to stand for right and wrong
20- Catskills Summer Camp for Politicians (past and present) (tug of war, capture the flag, s'mores and bunkbeds...what could happen??)
18- Cassette tape secures my crumbling soul
17- How Bessie the cow turned carnivorous (and suddenly all the farmers in Clarabelle County were missing)
16- The Seven Deadly Sins (the untold story)
15- I’ve been having this fever dream about a high school graduation party that gets really out of hand. Each song could be another wacky adventure. One of the songs could be the “pants off dance off”
14- JK I didn’t kiss that girl. I made the whole thing up. Shrug.
13- Side effects of a straight line
12- Recycling the bags beneath my eyes
11- Just love me for who I am
10- Lessons you learned from your MOM!
9- Looking through old photos
8- Online dating experiences.... Am I correct that right now we are just submitting ideas for a theme of the song??? It was difficult to hear in the video.
7- How did I wind up here? (a series of events that fit together kind of like a Rube Goldberg machine)
5- Fotomat: Where Our Love Developed
4- The sun makes the moonshine
3- Banning Books: The Bonfire of the Insanities
2- Mickey Mouse Comes Out!