Dirtball

Every man for himself
That’s what it is now
If you reach out your hand
For some help
Nobody gives now
‘Cause it’s
Every man 4 himself
And god against us all

This train we on
Is going way too fast
Ain’t no question now
This train is gonna crash
We forgot how to live
But we don’t wanna die
The struggle to survive
Ain’t gon’ leave a thing alive

There’s a war on the poor
In every nation
We scufflin’ and suffrin’
With degradation
Da rich people scared
They callin’ the police
The police in the street
Killin’ everyone they see

Every man for himself
That’s for damn sure
Try to find a friend
Don’t nobody know you no more
‘Cause it’s
Every man 4 himself
And god against us all

You just a cog in a giant wheel
Now the wheel is broken
Ain’t nothin’ left that’s real
We used up the oil
We wrecked the soil
We fucked up the air
There’s devastation everywhere

All the science the magic
The technology
When the power goes out
Where we gon’ be
Your computer your TV and your
Telephone
Your twitter your facebook
It all be gone
Try to get back
To what once was life
All you find is zombies
And rubble and strife

Everything we know
It’s gonna fall
Life won’t be nothin’ but a
Free for all
Your life ain’t worth nothin’
Your soul even less
And it won’t do you no good
Beggin’ for forgivness

Your day to day
It ain’t no more
Now it’s minute to minute
You gonna eat?
You gonna score?
You just livin’ in the moment
Just to keep on keepin’ on
Ain’t no thinkin’
‘Bout the future
Cuz it’s already gone

Hold on to your hiney
It’s gon’ get rough
Now we gonna find out
Who’s really tough enough
‘Cause it’s
Every man 4 himself
And god against us all

The deadly juggernaut of capitalism
Is rapidly destroying all life on planet earth
The time to wake up from this nightmare is now
This is war.
Our tears won’t help.
We must get angry
Move
Talk
Organize
Now!
Together!

Every man for himself?

It doesn’t have to be that way

A shot of love in a time of need
Not tryin’ to preach just plant a little seed
What can we give? We haven’t got a lot
Sweet love is all we really got

Seems like every day
It brings new disasters
Progress is slowin’ down
But our lives are goin’ faster
Some folks givin’ up
They say there ain’t no hope
And they’re buried in their TV screens
Or else they shootin’ dope

A shot of love in a time of need
It’s gonna be rough some people gonna bleed
The powers that be don’t care ‘bout you and me
We got to help each other won’t you hear my plea

We’re here
We’re alive
Remember love
And we might survive

All of us are striving
Just to make ends meet
Any day we could be
Livin’ in the street
I still love this life
And i know that you do too
But life is disappearing fast
What are we gonna do

A lot of love
A whole lot of love
There’s work to do
Me and you

A shot of love and a revolution
No other way it’s the only solution
Time is short we got to move fast
Revolution now
Or we ain’t gonna last

We’re here
We’re alive
Remember love
And we might survive

It feels like something
Used to live
In the spaces we inhabit
What is this deja vu of the heart

Sitting in the garden
Life’s serenity
The weeds the flowers
The trees the peace
Man I hear a chickadee
But back inside the house
Another world inhabits me
The news of war
The guilt the worries
A world that doesn’t know me

And I ask myself

What about love
What about real love
Is there still a chance
Or are we all just dancing
In the dark now
Closer to the edge

Standing by the river
As the afternoon floats by
The current strong and deep
From earth up to the sky
But back behind
The steering wheel
Racing rushing striving
Disconnected from the real
As life goes flashing by me

Do you remember love
Do you remember real love
We used to shout about it
Thought the world wouldn’t
Spin without it
Oh – maybe we were wrong

Happy careless dogs
Playing in the park
Moths looking for the light
Fluttering in the dark
For a moment one forgets it all
Blinded by a glimpse
Of the beauty
Of the true
And then I know
That we don’t matter
Neither me nor you
But still in my heart
This deja vu

What is there to hold
For those who try to hope
TVs phones and cars
Credit cards and dope
Is it really life
Is it really living
With no tears no solitude
No touching and no giving

What happened to love
What happened to real love
Say there’s still a chance
Don’t tell me we can’t
Still save the world
Don’t break my heart

Give me little love
Give me a little real love
Only love can guide us
And we’ve all got love inside us
Let’s let the love out now

The world won’t wait

Faith, hope and solidarity
If we gonna get by
That’s how it’s got to be
We got to pull together
You and me
We livin’ on
Faith hope and solidarity

Down in my nayborhood
People are strugglin’
Their bills keep pilin’ up
Their money down to nothin’
We tryin’ to make a change
And yea we gonna keep on tryin’
But baby in the meantime
We’re livin’ or we’re dyin’

All the jobs have gone away
People begging on the street
Little children everywhere
Don’t have enough to eat
If you lucky with a job

And you work hard every day-
There still ain’t never enough
When you bring home your pay

You got to buy
Food & shelter
Clothes for your kids
You never thought
You’d be livin’ on the skids

Faith hope and solidarity
If we’re gonna survive
That’s how it’s got to be
We’re all in this together
You and me
We’re living on
Faith hope and solidarity

You can fight with all your might
Against the powers that rule
But if you fight alone
You just end up black & blue

The powers with the money
They don’t care ‘bout you & me
You livin’ in the gutter
They livin’ high an’ free
People left with nothin’
Some banker
Threw their lives away
They might be gone tomorrow
If we don’t help today

You can pray to god or allah
Trust in providence
But it’s your friends
And your neighbors
That’ll help you pay the rent

I’ll reach out and help
My neighbors and friends
And when I need help myself
I know they’ll
Do what they can
We’re all in this together
Strangers and friends

We got
Hearts full of love
We got
Faith in each other
We got
Hope together,
And we’re ready to give
Everything that we can

We got faith hope and solidarity
Faith hope and solidarity
Faith hope and solidarity
Faith hope and solidarity

I am a rootless wanderer
‘Tho I seldom leave this town
Rootless and high lonesome
With no friends to pull me down

Along river banks
And lakesides we wander
Me and my dog Clyde
Well Clyde I guess he’s
A friend of mine
‘Cuz he’s always by my side

O once a load of
Cares and dreams
I lugged along my daily rounds
But time and life have
Eased that load
And one year I laid it down

‘Tho Sometimes those old
Cares and dreams
Come visit in the night
They bemuse me like a deja vu
From some distant life

Sometimes a trip
Across the countryside
Hitch hikin’ or a freight train ride
I see malls and
Miles of parking lots
I see the haves and more
I see have-nots

I hear guitars strummin’
TVs hummin’
Lots of misery
Lots of rah rah rah
Animals dyin’ people cryin’
Cell phones and pickups
It’s America

I see the same old tragedy
Of human beings tryin’ to be
Owners of some destiny
Never was and never will be

When I’m back in the world
That I call home
Along the river
Just another lonely stone

Thinking about
That other world outside
And all the people
Living striving dying
Or maybe just tired and alone

Tryin’ to believe in
Some old stuff
Long dead and gone

There’s a world out here
Where life is real
It’s a world that we all share

And as I lay down
To a good long sleep
The river there my soul to keep

I’m grateful to be here alive
Despite that broken
World outside

And to the sun to the earth
And for what it’s worth
Any spirits there might be

I say a prayer for hope
For you and me

Something happened
I think I’m going mad
I’ve lost all the happiness
I ever thought I had

Something happened
It’s makin’ me ill.
Life was purgatory
Now we goin’ to hell

Prison doors squeek open
Threats are being made
The dial is set to fear
And man I’m afraid

Something happened
It’s making me squirm
I feel the turn of the screw
The bite of the worm

I used to be invisible
But now I’m in their sights
I cower in the daytime
I tremble in the night

I’m a loser
And so are you
This is fuckin’ fascism
What are we gonna do?

Something happened
I’m so scared I’m gonna puke
If they don’t kill us in the street
We’ll prob’ly all get nuked

Something happened
I’m gonna start to drink
It’s way too dangerous
To think what I think

Should I hit the streets
Or stay home and try to hide
Eaten alive by pigs
What a way to die!

Something else is happening
Somewhere far away
Pain and death
Are always there
Every hour every day

But we’re still here! Now!
Can’t we do something
What can we do?

And something else is happening
Forget about your tears
We’ll all be gone anyway
In ten short years

We’ll all be gone?
In ten short years? No! No!

So keep your head in the sand
Your drugs in your hand
And say goodbye forever
To everything

Eternal poverty
Terminal war
A dying planet
The truth
A ghost
Haunting the world
The ghost
The truth
Speaks to us
A choice
We must choose life
We must choose to fight

There’s something happening
Can you see the light
All over the world
People standing up to fight
Something got to happen
We can’t run and hide
We’re up against the wall
But giving up is suicide
If I listen to my heart
I’m gonna choose life
If I listen to my heart
I’m gonna stand and fight! Fight!

Now’s the time
There’s not gonna be tomorrow
Now’s the time
There’s not gonna be next time
This is it
Time is only now time is only
Time is only now time is only
Now’s the time

You’re the one
I got to do what I got to do
You’re the one
I don’t do it nobody else will
You’re the one
What the heck am I doin’ here?
I don’t live I might as well die
You’re the one

Maybe there’s a place
Where things are different
I could be abducted
To a planet
Where things are different
O no I guess I’ll live
And die right here
On good ol’ planet earth
Where I was born

Today’s the day
Today I forget who I thought I was
Today’s the day
Today I start to disobey
You’re the one
I open my mouth I shout it out
I won’t obey I know my way
Today’s the day

I thought I could wait
For something to happen
I thought that time
Would go on forever
But something happened to me
I took a little pill
And now I know that
Time is only now
Wow!

Now’s the time
This is it
You’re the one
Today’s the day
Maybe I should
Take another pill

Now’s the time
Hey I’m awake
This is it
I’m almost out of bed
U the one
I’m gonna really go
Today’s the day
But first I gotta
Check my email
And then I gotta

Do my facebook
I gotta eat
Then I gotta
Make a few calls
And then I’ll hafta eat again
But I’m gonna tell you
Today’s gonna be the day
Or…
Maybe…
Maybe tomorrow?
But hey
I’m ready!   I’m ready!

When it’s time to pay
You think we won’t be punished?
Punished by the earth.
By the sky
By the water by the tiny atoms
For what we’ve done
Punished for our sins

I’m a dirtball
I’m gonna funk all over you
The mud the dirt the filth
Is where I come from
And go back to
I got germs I got the virus
Nasty scum is my mojo
Cuz I know I know
We goin’ down together
I will take you down

Dirtball Dirtball

I dig in the dirt
I dig thru the garbage
And the plastic
Thru the imitation phony illusion
Of cheap ass life
Beastly I’m a beast
Cheap crappy cruddy
Diddley-ass lousy
Junky of dirt filth
I’m vile
I will take you down

Dirtball Dirtball

I’m the mother of all your fears
And all your hopes
I’ll give you tears
I’ll give you misery
I’ll even give you dope

I will take you down

I’m a killer virus
You ain’t never heard of
I’m the deadly chemical stain
All over the earth
I’m all that plastic
You tried to throw away
I’ll clog you up
I’m in your blood
I’m in your blood

Dirtball

I’m squalid unclean
I’m verminous I’m vile
You poisoned me
Now I poison you
I’ll seep into your bubble
While you do the dance of death
You can blame your god
But I’m the one! I’m the one!

I will take you down

Dirtball Dirtball

We goin’ down together

A molecule in the ocean
A speck of dust in the universe
A fish jumps
A raccoon dreams
Two Wrens warble a warning
Get out! Get out!
While you can

I’ll give you back the time
They stole from you
I’ll give you forever baby
Eternity

Turn your eyes to the sun
And say goodbye to the earth

 

Today I live in dreams of color
Distant sweet feelings
Unfolding from the past
Voices in the air
Buzzing thru my head
But I know this feeling won’t last

Let’s take a walk together
We’ll go see the river
Walk among the trees
Hear the songs
The birds are singing
Lie down with the flowers
And the weeds
Too bad that all of this
Will soon be gone
And the tears we shed
Won’t be enough to save it
Many shades of beauty
Are still here
But how long will it last?
Listen! Can you hear?

This is a message to your heart
We all live together
No one exists apart
This is a message
Can you hear?
Something softly crying
Our mother earth is dying

We still love the planet
We’re still attached you know
But so much that was real
Seems so long ago
Everything you’ve dreamed of
Will soon be gone
Time to put those dreams away
New dreams must be born

Whether we choose to live or die
Everything will change
One way or the other
Life will never be the same
Can I learn to be now
What I really am?
To live with all the other life
Can I learn to share?

This is a message to your heart
From the oceans from the sky
From the earth
And all the life it holds
This is a message
From our friends
What are we really living for
If all life will soon end?

The sun still shines
Giving us our life
The moon in the night
Still circles in the sky
Old mother earth still spinnin’
Tryin’ to stay alive
When it all blows away
What will still survive?

This is a message to your heart
We all live together
No one exists apart
This is a message to your heart

Today I live in dreams of color
But my dreams won’t come true
A world ruled by greed
Has changed what my life means
Can I learn to change myself?
Will we be strong enough
To change the world?

We’ll go beyond
We’ll hold on to hope
Can’t let go now
We must have courage
We will go beyond
Our fears our tears

I know I am not alone
It isn’t only me it’s all of us
We’ll hold on to hope together
We’ll keep the faith together

We’ll go beyond

We’ll build the bridges and
Tear down the walls
We are not helpless
Together we fight
Black yellow brown and white

We’ll go beyond

The real world is on our side
Even mother earth
Is fighting back
And we all know
It won’t be easy
But we’ll fear no evil
With joy with love
We’ll fight on

Beyond
We will fight the greed,
And fight the lies

Beyond
We will fight the violence
Yes and fight the hate

Beyond
We must fight against our
ignorance and our shame

Beyond
We will fight
For justice and dignity
For everyone

We’ll go beyond

We’ll go beyond

And here we are
All of us
Under one sky
A sky that loves us
All of us
Beneath one sun
A sun that loves us
All of us
Standing on one earth
The earth that is our very lives

In a world is filled with fear
We will fight for love
When all life is threatened
We will fight for love
For the sky for the sun,
For the earth
We will fight for their love

Here we are
We were born for this time
Here we are
We were born to go

Beyond