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May Freedom Prevail!
A dark cloud passes over the land
Obscuring the light of rationality.
Winds of uncertainty beat against
The threatened structures of democracy's vitality.
Never before has a politician
Vowed to deport from American soil
Eleven million people. Tell me:
How does that not make your blood boil?
To carry out a mass deportation--
To tear millions of families apart--
Would violate the rights of us all
And be neither compassionate nor smart.
Never before has a politician
Promoted religious profiling here,
In a country where we have the right to believe
Or NOT--a freedom that we hold dear.
Never before has a politician
Suggested that America should harm
The families of suspected terrorists.
Good gracious! Sound the alarm!
If democracies undermine themselves
By taking away people's rights it seems
That there's a very thin line between
Such democracies and fascist regimes.
May the light of reason pass through
The dark clouds obscuring the sun!
May reason stifle the threats of tyranny
So we can proclaim that freedom has won!
(5-7-16)
Obscuring the light of rationality.
Winds of uncertainty beat against
The threatened structures of democracy's vitality.
Never before has a politician
Vowed to deport from American soil
Eleven million people. Tell me:
How does that not make your blood boil?
To carry out a mass deportation--
To tear millions of families apart--
Would violate the rights of us all
And be neither compassionate nor smart.
Never before has a politician
Promoted religious profiling here,
In a country where we have the right to believe
Or NOT--a freedom that we hold dear.
Never before has a politician
Suggested that America should harm
The families of suspected terrorists.
Good gracious! Sound the alarm!
If democracies undermine themselves
By taking away people's rights it seems
That there's a very thin line between
Such democracies and fascist regimes.
May the light of reason pass through
The dark clouds obscuring the sun!
May reason stifle the threats of tyranny
So we can proclaim that freedom has won!
(5-7-16)
