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Hopefully (Let It Be So)
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Like Dave from Kids In the Hall I’m just a guy
Trying to navigate what it means to be alive
As a tail end Gen X dude in 2020
OKC ain’t like Philly where it’s always sunny
I stay in Oklahoma so I can be the change
I wanna leave it better than it was when I came
Teach the kids, make the records and write the songs
offer up my thoughts in music whether they be right or wrong
My style is old school But my opinions are not
It’s like a dozen Yes albums, how progressive I’ve got
It don’t take a detective to See our country is complicit
Of protecting the privileged And all their deep pockets, listen
45 never been a president to me
That number’s reserved for 7 inch vinyl, see
White collar criminal don’t get to share a name
With records that inspired me to get into the game
Hopefully not long after this drops
Donald Trump will be in jail
A doer of deeds way worse than emails
And I say to you
Let it be so
Let it be so
Hopefully by the time this record’s out
A few minds will repent
Of their racism directed at immigrants
And I say to you
Let it be so
Let it be so
All the folks on the right say they’re afraid of socialism
They all believe the fearmongers increasing the schism
Between the two factions at war in our nation
All drinking from the fountain of disinformation
I’m not afraid of my tax dollars helping someone else
Who doesn’t have my privilege and can’t help themselves
The playing field isn’t even
Bootstraps are an illusion only the rich believe in
If you’ve lived all your life white, cis and straight
Facts are no one’s gonna try to take your rights away
It’s also true Trump would have never been elected
Without the lies main lined to your brain undetected
The forces at work that want to make you fearful
Only care about power and they’ll give you twenty ears full
Of rhetoric designed to put you on the defensive
And make your vote morally expensive
Hopefully in the future Mike Pence will realize his faith
Preaches oppression to those who differentiate
And I say to you
Let it be so
Let it be so
Hopefully by the time this hits the net one person of privilege
Will decide that it really does take a village
And I say to you
Let it be so
Let it be so
This isn’t the election many wanted
Our hearts are battered, our hearts are haunted
By ideas in our minds of what America could be
What it would look like for all of us to be truly free
Take the gains we can get and keep working keep dreaming
Organize better, try harder, positive scheming
It’s a long road ahead, my friends
Just remember to love each other to the end
Hopefully at some point Mitch McConnell will have a change of heart
Stop trying to tear our country apart
And I say to you
Let it be so
Let it be so
Hopefully by the time this track’s released
A few folks will have done
Something in their town that benefits everyone
And I say to you
Let it be so
Let it be so
Let it be so
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Silly For Tilly
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You were an ensign on discovery
And you were training for command
An engineer that was top tier
Your brain, it was so grand
But then Control came and blew a hole
Right into your best laid plans
Your beauty beckons from the 32nd
Don’t you understand?
You got me floating in midair
With your pottymouth and your red hair
Oh Tilly, I’m so silly for you
Please walk my way across the shuttle bay,
And be my boo
I love you more than Kate Mulgrew
Sylvia, I hope I make you silly, too
I’ll always consent if you need to vent
About your shitty mom
I hope the retrofit includes a holodeck
So I can take you to the prom
With your skin of porcelain
You’re a work of finest art
You’ll be acting number one onboard
And always in my heart
And I know you dig musicians
Come and take me on a five year mission
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Dr. Pants Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
Dr. Pants and Weird Files are the musical monikers of David Broyles, a songwriter/composer from Oklahoma City. Rock, folk, hip hop, electronic music, chamber composition and other things, from a nerdy, quirky perspective.
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