From the recording cOnTAinMEnt 2020
By May 2020, the rhetoric between the left and the right was becoming unbearable. While not even in the same universe, this was my best try at a Dillon style protest song about all the politics. I purposely took words from the headlines like swamp, greed, hate, and destruction. The main point is I just wanted the facts, not some political storyline that both sides were force feeding people.
Lyrics
I Despise Being Told
Our country imploded
As the movies streamed on
Swept out into violence
Swept back to the swamp
There were bad guys and good guys
Rich jokers and fools
Oh, awareness was running
Throwing fire on the fuel
The news spread the virus
Like the tabloids they spewed
Spinning lies and illusions
Red blood’s turning blue
A young man in Memphis
Two cops in LA
Oh, our country stands broken
Hate sashays away
To mend fallen fences
We must lose all these lies
But distortions play on
False pretenses fly
== Chorus
Let loose of my freedoms
I’ll choose my own road
I’ll draw my conclusions
I despise being told
Pardon my freedoms
Don’t sell me that load
Let me think in my own thoughts
Let’s kick hate down the road
==
Both sides of the house
Played fools of us all
And like zombified children
We rose when they called
We’re right where they want us
Divided we fall
When hates on your side
You got testosterone balls
If you covet life’s tales
Well, you better read on
If the feet were reversed
Which foot would be gone
Better live what you know
And know when you hear it
Don’t eat what they feed you
Don’t feed on their fear
Let loose of my freedoms
I’ll choose my own road
I’ll draw my conclusions
I despise being told
Pardon my freedoms
Don’t sell me that load
Let me think in my own thoughts
Let’s Kick hate down the road
Let loose of my freedoms
I’ll choose my own road
I’ll draw my conclusions
I despise being told