Who the R Evolution
As from the plaintiffs
their voices rise
come speak with us
come converse
with words of love
Here we raise no battle cry
no hymn or anthem
but with gentle heart
and loving mind
raise this protest
Too long we cling
with this skin of nostalgia
those so called better times
and in their dust and fire
we hereby proclaim them
fake
The disregarded children
have grown fatherless
mournful mothers have raised us
we have paid in consequence
for the dying of their hearts
The great depression
economic recession
its balance of payments
the distopian humdrum state
of human underconsumption
the collectible buy-products of austerity
hyperinflated stagflation
these economic credit embezzlement's
measure this war-machines policy
And we
by tragedy
have come to accept
have listened to the bleating excuses
of terrorism's politics
have poured this blood
these lives
upon dementia's hate
We
such a quiet voice it was
which rose new hope aloft
to turn from aggression
to speak in kinder themes
and in love
become more human
Here we raise no battle cry
no hymn or anthem
but with gentle heart
and loving mind
raise this protest
Will any of them listen
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