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Tuneback: Take a Stand
February 9, 2008 | Author: Joel Falconer | Filed under:
You all thought we’d disappeared, right? My bandmates have been abroad in various other countries (probably catching a variety of stomach bugs) and since I’ve had a few stalkers - er, fans - complaining about the lack of new tunebacks, I whipped one up today.
This is a song for people who take a stand against the ignorant world hegemony and tell ‘em all where to go. Treehugger is a website that has become one of my most-read examples of this lately.
I did this one alone, and since I haven’t written a tuneback in a while, did so rather experimentally. Brace yourselves.
Download it here.
Take a Stand
Gonna take a stand against so-called society today
Gonna raise a family in my own way
And all of you in suits, white, black and grey
Sit in the past and there you can stay
Gonna take a stand against you racists today
You’ve got your pure families and your hateful ways
All you skinheads and far-right conservatives (what’s the difference?)
Make the world a better place and stay in yesterday
If I could leave you there in yesterday,
If I could just wipe you all away,
If I could give society a chance to heal itself
If they’d ignore your lies for just a day
For just a day, for a lifetime,
Take a stand against injustice’s hand
For just a moment, for all time,
Take a stand, just take a stand
Gonna take a stand against you redneck oil barons
Gonna take a stand against your suicidal ways
Don’t you know you’re killing your grandchildren?
Don’t you know you’re taking yourself with ‘ em?
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 Unported License. Send it your friends or leave a copy on the moon, remix it, rewrite it, add video to it - it’s yours.
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Damn straight man. Interesting piece of work. Good promotion for Treehuggers and I’m now reading their stuff. Thanks! Keep it up those tunebacks are good.