316- When it comes to the truth we don’t mess around in the American underground/ We’ve already won and we’re not backing down/ In the American underground
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315- Freedom will be ours
We will stand our ground
The American underground
What we once lost
Has been forever found
In the American Underground
314- Cause...wrong isn't right and right isn't wrong
Sing the American Wonder Song
Stronger tonight if you sing along
Sing the American Wonder Song
Yeah down isn't up and up isn't down
In the American Underground (Credit Adam Byrn)
In the American Underground
La la la la la la la la la
The American Underground
313- Yeah, let the truth pour in like sunshine streaming through the blinds/for today's a brand new morning for the ones with open minds.
312- Fight with me, if they get me.
The molotov explodes with gasoline and whiskey/ it hit me. Even if we're locked up at fifty. Would you risk it or miss me?
311- Plows aren't swords and swords aren't plows...in the American Underground
We've looked at peace from all sides now
In the American Underground
310- Let's break on through... there's no going back
We've done this before and that's a fact
Come with us now... where love can be found (I'd sing LOVE on an up note)
In the American underground...
309- Truth isn't lost, facts can be found, in the American Underground, no talking head's gonna bring us down, in the American Underground.
308- We’re all standing up you can’t strike us down, in the American Underground/ Proud to be here among such a crowd, in the American Underground.
307- Another day done and were counting on down, in the American underground/ to the day we can say "There is truth all around", the American underground
306- We no longer can hide from what is done/the ripple effect of peace and love will persuade/no more need to be afraid…just brave/here in the American Underground
305- Let's close our eyes and count to three, I feel strongest when you count on me, hold me in the wreckage, leave me breathless.
304- When all we’ve seen is the ugly side of the world To have hope in each other starts a new day take a breathe step up and lead the way.
303- I feel the rays and feel the pain I feel sad but with hope that we'll get thru to the insane
302- The table is set, we can all sit around, in the American underground/ We'll reach for the stars, and lies won't hold us down, in the American underground
301- Dreamers unite as the walls fall down
In the American Underground
Cause no one is painting the passports brown
In the American Underground
300- We are all human paving our own way in the American Underground/So cleanse the souls of the lost/Kindness and compassion is all it will cost
299- This time around the lights can be found, in the American Underground/ nobody’s down you won’t find a frown, here in the American Underground.
298- Real will survive if everyone’s down, for the American underground/ truth stays alive if all sing its sound, in the American underground
297- A page is being turned with each breath on the wind/ In the American underground/ With the promise of truth a new story begins/ in the American underground
296- It's not about win, and it's not about lose/ in the American underground/ It's about having the facts, when it comes time to choose/ in the American underground
295- Truth comes to light, facts can be found, in the American underground, no talking heads to bring us down, in the American underground.
294- The life we now live let’s freedom abound in the American underground / with time to forgive as truth takes a bow in the American underground
293- We’re clearing out the cobwebs that tried to keep us down/ In the American underground
Our powerful voices rising send a glorious sound/ From the American underground
292- rEVOLution spells love if you turn things around, in the American underground.
291- The voice that you hear is truth that’s unbound, in the American Underground
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290- So let's bathe in the sunshine...the gaslight's way too dim/ Help open up the closed minds and let the truth pour in
289- Outside the door underground, the skies are turning blue/so step outside and see if friends are looking back at you.
288- So hold on tight and take my hand / We'll need all we can get / Yeah everything is broken down but it's not over yet... No... it's not over yet
287- And slipping through the shadows that spill across the night
We've seen them try to swallow the logic of the light
286- The things that are behind us, lie rolling in our wake/ Let's set our bow straight forward, we have time to overtake
285- It’s work, but we don’t mind it, we’ll face our enemy/ we’ll chase truth til we find it, reclaim reality
284- Let's move toward redemption, equality for all/ Let's keep each other safe, let's rise against the fall
283- When future generations reminisce about our times, will history record us as the ones who made things right.
282- The eyes here in the underground are looking for the light/so pour a little sunshine in and push away the night.
281- ('cause) We're standing on the shoulders, of the heroes of the past/ If we fight for truth and justice, their legacy will last
280- Is there any reason to stay silent anymore/outside the underground I hear the rain begin to pour.
279- Silence will not win this time, a roar is what we need/the truth is always mighty, it always plants the seed.
278- The time has come to speak our minds, shout our truth out loud/our hearts can be wide open as we run against the crowd.
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277- Our actions pave the way for those to come/ Let's leave them something good, when the day is finally done...in the underground
276- So I guess this would be a final chorus, using the original first line:
Down isn't up and up isn't down in the American underground
The found who've been lost again will be found in the American underground
We'll all be here if you come around to the American underground
Wherever you're from we're all homeward bound in the American underground
275- This wheel and the world keep moving round. But, they both turn upside down. Toward the things that matter, they both turn underground.
274- Hope can be known and how can be found
In the American Underground
Calling on you to come join us now
In the American Underground
La LA LA LA...LA LA LA LA LA
American Underground
LA LA LA...LA LA LA LA LA
American Underground....repeat and fade
(credit to Jill for the LA LA idea?)
273- Every one of us are spokes restoring hope and health, from underground, truth is our wealth
272- Up that hill through bridges wearing patience like a crown,
We don’t mind using dirty roads and rolling onto risky ground
271- Fight for what you believe we want be knocked down/ the wheel will keep spinning in this American underground
270- Let's take the wheel together
And turn this world around
We are not too far from the road
Where hope and truth can be found..the American underground
269- And if we hold onto that wheel spinning round / we’ll fly like seeds being carried to new American undergrounds
268- We need warriors working, keeping truth alive and well, nothing else
267- Let's set out on the road to better days/ where clouds all fade away, and truth shines through the haze
266- A little revolution starts a wheel to rolling 'round
A little evolution and more missing hearts are found...in the American Underground
265- There’s unity on restoration road, it’s how we roll, down under here
264- Faith hope love kindness God’s will be crowned /Something to believe in, in this American underground
263- Grab hold of the vision and push with all your might, the sky is the limit, if we try.
262- We need to turn this world around, and head it down, head it down to the American Underground.
261- America's been stuck inside the Lost and Found
Let's get her out
Your heart knows how
With love,
The American Underground
260- For many miles we push and turn, with many yet to go, but what we know… (down isn’t up and up isn’t down..)
259- Let us not falter in this nasty weather…rise up from the underground and turn that wheel together
258- It needs the energy that's bubbling up inside...of the underground
257- Powered by compassion we can drive our message home, love is the key, to our liberty.
256- So take the wheel with me
Together we will drive
Guided by the American underground
A map of truth not lies
255- Our voices hold the answers...let words become out swords/And shine those glints of reason to the Underground once more
254- The wheel has no idea where it’s headed ‘til we steer. Take a turn at the wheel and we’ll get there free and clear.
253- together we can steer it to a new horizon / shake loose from the shackles and be part of the rising
252- Let freedom be the key
Together we'll turn the wheel around
United as one
In the American underground
251- We’ll find the love within us, take our hearts down off the shelf, truth needs us
250- All of us together can unite the right and left, if love leads us
249- So let's put our shoulders to the wheel and push along.
For the world is ours and only We can make it work.
248- Freedom is our wheel lets give it an overkill / Stand and be strong keep it turning still
247- The time spent arguing is not time well spent / The jury is still out on what the right message is to send
246- With their lies and games, keep us swimming in the dark/ A glitch of light shines down so we don’t get bit by the shark
245- Reaching out to be a part of something bigger than ourselves
244- (rewrite)
So help me turn it, help me, and I'll help you turn it too, together----
243- So hold on tight and take my hand / We'll need all we can get / Yeah everything is broken down but it's not over yet...
242- So let us unite together
Our purpose is the same
Freedom to choose what we believe
Without any guilt
Without any shame
241- I wish it all was easy, man I really do / But I can’t push that wheel up the hill without you.
240- And even best intentions, will not change this truth / You’ve got to bring real answers, you’ve got to bring the proof.
239- And even best intentions, will not change this truth / You’ve got to bring real answers, you’ve to bring the proof.
238- So let’s join together no matter what you believe/ We are all human on this planet here to succeed
So let’s join together no matter what you believe/ We are all on this planet here to succeed
So let’s join together no matter what you believe/ We are all human on this planet here to succeed
237- United in our purpose, we're confident and proud, growing strong together, we live the truth out loud.
236- The way ahead is all about the heart to heart to heart...so let's start
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235- This wounded world won't heal without our help / The wheel has been invented...but it will not turn itself
234- When darkness closes in and life begins to fade/ wanna slip away at peace with the choices that I've made
233- We’re caught in a web in thin disguise
Let the flames of revolution fill the sky
232- We're tired of one step forward and two steps back/ it's time to right this ship, get back on track
231- Time, it’s on our side, but not what seems to be/ We share the world, let’s share reality.
230- Time, it’s on our side, but still not always right/ Pendulums return, but don’t sit tight.
229- We’ll build more bold bridges than we burn/ we’ll fill our fountains full of what we learn
228- Struggling for the future, like unsung heroes of the past, who stood their ground, even when, it cost them all they had.
227- Waiting for that moment when we can finally exhale. It gets so darn exhausting to ride the paper trail.
226- Can you look us in the eye and tell us all is well? Cuz' lately it sure seems this world has gone to hell!
225- Why has the world silenced our voices
By deyning us freedom to make our own choices
224- We can’t change a weed or close our eyes
But we won’t give them food to multiply
223- Does anyone have answers anymore? We close all of the windows and the truth slips out the door.
222- The rainbow is stronger than the rain
The arc that bends towards justice...The path that ends the pain
221- Cause sunlight is stronger than they know
It guides us through the shadows and shows us where to go
220- Does anyone get tired as we wander through the dark? I know there must be light ahead I can’t wait to see the spark.
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219- Like petals on a flower...like grapes upon a vineWe grow into our power...one brave seed at a time
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218- A perfect pick in battles, this one we must choose /what’s real should not be rattled, the truth should never lose
217- Beware of all the smirks that lie behind a smile. They'll pretend to give an inch, while they deceive you by a mile.
216- No more children dying, no more worshipping the gun/ no more people crying, 'cause their rights have been undone
215- Power and corruption, are driving little men/ to wage war on abortion, just because they can
214- A hundred million middle fingers, are pointing to the sky/ we're asking for the truth, (and) all you're giving us are lies
213- They're coming for your body...not coming for your guns
Guess every life's not godly...it's just the unborn ones
212- And when opinion shatters the sanctity we've known
We focus on what matters: the scared seeds we've sown
211- A voice can start a chorus and that in turn becomes a song
A song cannot stay hidden when so many sing along
210- Gone are separate fountains, there's no you-can't-sit-there seat / Together we move mountains, apart we're incomplete
209- There's order in the chaos, alignment in their march, with harmony of voices and loyalty at heart
208- Voices can be earthquakes
When enough unite
Breaking up the landscape
Exposing what’s inside
207- Those voices deeply buried /
Anchored by their roots /
some call that soil dirt /
But we know it’s called truth
206- Time and tears are wasted, but all is never lost / Each small victory that's tasted, reminds us of the cost
205- What’s within will soon come out/ all will be revealed, we’ll shine the light in every crack til nothing is concealed
204- Like a nearing subway train the gentle rumbles rise/ one voice joins another in the growing battle cries
203- With a chorus of conviction, we're answering the call/ We're standing up for freedom, but one that serves us all
202- Truth is resurrecting, it's rising up again/ the flowers will be growing, the weeds will meet their end
201- Planting seeds of truth and tending it with care
We'll grow those mighty trees, is the slogan of the day
200- The lies are loud, we’re louder; unleash the megaphones!/ They fight long, we’ll fight longer, till truth’s the default mode.
199- It’s work but we don’t mind it, we’ll face our enemy / we’ll chase truth til we find it, reclaim reality
198- Feed ‘em good incentives, to speak unbiased truth/ Starve greed out of the kitchen, it’s been rationing their food.
197- An honest conversation is hard but it's a start
That's how a wounded nation begins to heal its heart
196- Cause roses burst with brilliance...bloom beautiful and free
When watered with resilience and true community
195- A chain of hands is growing, as links are added on, judging by the numbers, it seems a million strong
194- A single seed well planted / Can move a lot of dirt
193- The same sun shines on everyone, some don’t see the light/ They hide in darkened shadows out of fear or out of spite.
192- Everyone has taken sides it seems there’s only two/ You stand for what I think or you’re wrong, I know that’s true.
191- Fault lines drawn in anger feel like they're carved in stone
But down below the danger we're all just flesh and bone
190- Calm can become chaos
Depending what you hear
Embraced by misconception
Courage gives birth to fear
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189- One small voice is now a rumbling sound/ in the American underground
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188- How will we win this war that surrounds/ the American underground
187- Greedy’s a hunter, hungry’s a crowd, in the American underground/ Shine makes good camo, words good guns, mixin’ grains of truth in, makin’ lies less blunt.
186- Blade as a tongue, and feign of a frown, in the American underground/ Smoke and a mirror, homeward bound, charging at us in HD Surround.
185- Truth is a gem that is rare to be found, in the American underground
184- Lies seem to shout the truth makes no sound, in the American Underground
183- In the dark nothing grows, not a weed, not a rose, in the American Underground
182- The battle is real but real’s tied and bound/ in the American underground
181- Lies fall like rain/ and rain’s coming down in the American underground
180- Life's a circus with clowns abound, in the American underground.
179- Lies only live if they are allowed/ in the American underground
178- So what do we do as the world comes unwound
Ask the American Underground
177- Time doesn’t stop, the world goes around, in the American Underground.
176- Feel the beat of the drums to the pounding around, the American underground
175- Hear the sound of the drums and the pounding around, the American underground
174- Roses bloom and lies shaken down, in the American underground
173- Lines can bend to find middle ground, in the American underground
172- The torch has been lit...we pass it around
In the American Underground
171- We won't be heard if we don't make a sound, in the American underground
170- I’ve got a home and my friends can be found, in the American Underground.
169- Wrong isn't right and right isn't wrong/ based on who's singing the song
168- Who’s truth do we believe when they all believe their’s is true
167- Found can be lost but lost can be found
In the American Underground
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166- The time you spend with just your point of view, takes me further away from you.
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165- A weed becomes a weapon, aimed at you and me/ With trust among the fallen, and truth a casualty
164- The weed became an army, overthrew the yard/ I tried to stuff it back into its seed, but didn’t get far.
163- A lie arrives in Burma ‘fore the truth gets out of bed
So believe me when I tell to beware the things you’ve read
162- We are done with maybes; we want to know for sure. Don't poke a sleeping lion and expect it not to stir.
161- Swept away like magic, the truth just disappears. Now you see it, now you don't. A game of smoke and mirrors.
160- Let the weeds keep growing, let them choke the flowers
Death all they understand, in those ivory towers
159- Roses may be hidden, but their scent will fill the air, rising with conviction, when truth will win the day
158- It's hard to see through all this smoke
hard to breath through all this hurt/
And the weeds are only camouflage,
that thrive upon the dirt
157- Confusion is expected, when we’ve been living in/ The age of information, in an age of imprecision.
156- Words are spun like silk, but they're really spider webs/ They catch us and they hold us, tighter with each thread
155- Their Black-and-white vision
With no grey in between
Can Lead a blinded nation
And turn into disease
154- But the truth is not in hiding, it's there for all to see, compassion and forgiveness, are all we really need
153- So don’t stand by in silence, shout your truth out loud/ Jump up on the rooftop, make sure they know you’re proud!
152- Words are cast like seeds, to the winds of discontent/ They land where they're believed, and give birth to dissidence
151- Multiplying, blooming fiercely, lining courts and lanes/ We held our noses dearly, while they sold them as bouquets.
150- Calm can become chaos / depending what you hear / when embraced by misconception / courage becomes fear
149- And like the garden of Eden, when an apple was the bait/
The snakes are in full force again, will we make the same mistake
148- Weeds can block the sunlight and weeds can choke the air
We need to tend our garden...before it isn't there
147- All the blood that was shed left a supposed stain but when i walk all i see are clean streets/ The blood and the lies are hidden beneath the oath you take when you participate
146- But how does one interpret the paintings they are shown/
When the channels they are chained to, hold a bias all their own
145- The anger feeds the tension/It pulls hard on both sides
But if you pay attention/You'll see the clear divide
144- You’ve got to ask the questions, you’ve got to find the truth. Ask the wise, the old and yes, make sure you ask the youth.
143- Magicians keep their secrets, their audience believes, the grandest of illusions, is their reality.
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142- Fact can turn to fiction, depending what you read/ When watered with deception, a rose becomes a weed
141- Some people worship guns like they're heaven sent, but I don't think guns are God's instrument
140- Forget about facts or make new ones up/Just drink your Kool-Aid from a plastic red cup
139- They say they got a solution
We need more good guys with guns
The odds are small so let’s keep on
Selling riffles to anyone
138- (3rd person version)
Think they undershot this view, so warm their echo chamber dens,
And just their words and not real news, were only calling back to them.
137- If you never knew there was magic,
you can't be sad that's it's gone/
I'll march until you understand,
its disappearance is wrong
136- Sometimes It hurts to hear
It can take a while to sink in
You know you hit a nerve
When you lost all your reserve
135- I’ve been here before
On this merry-go-round
I say too much
And the bricks fall down
134- Demand action, demand change. Schools shouldn't be someone's shooting range.
133- We won't give up, we won't give in, selling military weapons is a money hungry sin.
132- Am I just a number on your rolls or do you know I have feelings of my own
131- It’s been too long we’ve sat and waited, while killers walk free to kill third graders.
130- I've been told /more than once/ don't swim against the current/
Making waves where they don't belong is such a wasted effort.
129- They say, “Pick your battles”, this one I’ll choose / what’s real can’t be rattled, the truth cannot lose
128- I walked into my classroom / put my name on the board / never knowing that soon and very soon / I would be walking with my Lord
127- Eagle running from a legal gun
If life is so precious let's protect our young
126- AR 15...absurd and obscene
You can't drink or smoke but they're yours at eighteen
125- Bulletproof backpacks are selling real well
Made in America...product from Hell
124- Saw some words scrawled on the bathroom wall/ that said "The truth don't seem to matter at all"
123- A situation where we're all sucked in /knowing goodness, acting on it. showing what we're made of
122- Pictures of Goodness NOT shaken from fear / holding on to hearts through blood, sweat, and tears
121- Another moment of silence, another deadly day. How do we stop (all) the violence, how do we change our ways.
120- All of this feels like bad déjà vu
Before, there was violence, but love
Now there’s anger licked like a candy
And hate has become the its own cause
119- Tap...tap our primal fears and watch the hatred flow
Tap...tap and where it stops nobody seems to know
118- Where is Walter Cronkite when we need him most
Where’s the voice of reason to stop this vertigo
117- ...the toys and the yachts that the rich are playin' in (See comment below - this is a second couplet to Merilee's line)
116- I wish in this day I could speak my views without fear of losing you.
115- Smoke and mirrors, can anybody hear us? / cynical, weary, and jaded
114- Not interested in feeding hate,
but if I can't see two sides, then I do/
The devil doesn't kill it's prey,
it uses until it is through
113- From the darkest places, what we see is designed,
And not with love, but with money in mind
112- Thousands gather in the streets
To make their voices heard
Thou shalt not steal my civil rights
Is the cry amidst these words
111- Whatever doesn't sink still floats
The truth puts meat on bones...and bones on ghosts
110- Someone's trying to sell us what they say we need
Someone's trying to tell us that the wound won't bleed
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109- The size of the lie will not make it true/ The clouds don't make the sky less blue
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108- Look in the distance and listen to the ground, there's a world beyond your merry go round
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
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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!