Acoustic based folk rock protest song with the electric bass driving the rhythm.

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I was inspired to write this song quite a long time ago, when I saw a press photo of Margaret Thatcher in tears on the day the British Conservative Party ditched her as leader. However,the song is aimed at a certain type of politician rather than any one specific person. The idea behind the song is that the ability to outmanouevre someone else through forceful and persuasive argument can be as destructive a form of bullying as physical bullying and not necessarily a fulproof indicator as to how valid the argument is. I believe that's something which many politicians need to learn.

Who Are Your Tears For?

Persuasive and so erudite
You bully in an argument
As worthless as a fistfight,
Catching votes is your intent.
Armed with statistics which
Deceive but never lie
The fixed ideas you ought to ditch
Will once again apply
So who are your tears for now it's over?
For the schizos on the streets
Whom every policy defeats
Who are your tears for now it's over?

Paraphrase and cliche rules
The press must have its say
And language thus the tool of fools
Where truth can't find a way.
You hypnotize with rhetoric
Which reinforces prejudice
The ad campaign is oh so slick
Though substance it will miss.
So who are your tears for now it's over?
Can you hear the thousands sob
Who have also lost a job?
Who are your tears for now it's over?

We must interrupt, assert ourselves so
Cause ours is the view you must know.

Imagination seems to be
An excess of desire
Over one's ability
And so will feed the liar
Who knows not where the secret lies
With his vouchsafed monopoly
On truth and all its alibis
Which smack of slavery.
So who are your tears for now it's over?
For all those you take for fools
Who would question all your rules?
Who are your tears for now it's over?
Who are your tears for now it's over?
Who are your tears for now it's over?
Who are your tears for now it's over?