Name: Become Living Art!
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Become Living Art!

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This is a wordy spoken poetry anthem I wrote for those who have dedicated their lives to peacfully fighting injustice. (READ THESE LYRICS!)

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Maioan Person

I am my own person - aka Maioan Person. I have a folk-rock-punk-alternative style with hard hitting lyrics about social and political issues: Peace, justice, co

Maioan Person aka Midge lives in the Missouri Ozarks, but has also spent a lot of time in Washington DC... in between she plays shows here and there and everywhere. She writes songs to empower people. In the early days alot of her songs were aimed toward personal empowerment and now many are aimed toward educationing people on issues such as militarism, globalization, diversity, and herbal medicine among other things. Maioan Person is not just a musician, but also an activist who commits herSelf to helping organize demonstrations, rallies and protests wherever and whenever she can. In February of 2005 Maioan was arrested protesting against torture on the Supreme Ccurt steps and she was arrested again for civil disobedience on the White House sidewalk September 26th 2005 with Cindy Sheehan and over 300 other activists. She has also taken her activism to extreme levels in the form of many vigils at the White house and several peace walks up to 330 miles. She has 2 complete albums: Begin Creation (2001) & America Incorporated (2005)... 2 mini-albums: W Is For WAR (2003), Truth At The Heart (2004)... and has had a couple songs on compiliation CD's by 3000 Records with nation wide distribution and airplay. Maioan Person has played at several large festivals including the Million Marijuana March on the steps of the capitol building in Jefferson City Missouri 2003, Pride In The Park, Springfield Missouri (2003), Cannabis Liberation Day at MU campus in Columbia Missouri (2004), DC ANti-War Netowrks inaugural rally at McPherson Square in DC (Jan 20th 2005), Mobilization For Global Jusitce's World Bank rally's at Dupont Circle (April 16th 2005 & September 24th 2005). She has also played at many coffee houses, info shops and a few bars, as well as street corners across the USA. S/he is currently completing another full album called The Virtues of Diversity that should be done by January 2006. * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * for more MP3 songs by Maioan Person ... including resources, articles & links concerning Counter-Recruitment, Conscientious Objection, Anti-Draft, etc. * *

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Acoustic • Acoustic General

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Peak #84

Peak in subgenre #15

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Maioan Person

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June 16, 2005

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MP3 4.1 MB • 128 kbps • 0:00

Lyrics

BECOME LIVING ART
by Maioan Person

I've got a question for you that I hope you can
answer,
What is the cure for society's cancer?
Whether your a banker or an erotic dancer,
You've got to admit we are all in this together...
And we're living on a planet that's revolvong around
A giant ball of fire flaring up and bringing down
Electricity grids from the Big Apple to MoTown:
The earth is screaming for change, but very few hear
the sound
Of super giant redwoods that are facing the blade
Of industrial ignorance that has it made in the shade
Because the regulatory commissions are paid 
By the special interests being regulated.

Now this would be a good time to give a shout out
To Gypsy and to Butterfly and all those who have
helped out
With direct actions raising awareness about
The destruction of complete ecosystems without
Regard to Mother Earth and the land that is sliding
Into the streams and the rivers that are hiding
All kinds of delicate life forms that have everything
riding
On the hope that exticntion will not be inviting
Death upon their own particular species.
If you haven't figured it out, this is more than about
trees!
But a thousand year old redwood would be enough for me
To think that maybe humans are some sort of disease.
See, Gypsy was killed by a logger named A.E.
Ammons, who cut down a giant tree
Purposely aiming it right a Gypsy:
A typical logger, trading lives for "board feet".
Even salmon are endangered by the erosion
That is caused by the outlaws who have no emotion
As they cut and they saw and they log like an
explosion
Until entire mountainsides are cleared of
vegetation...
Then when it rains, mudslides occur
And the muddy muck of man's destructive actions are
sure
To tumble down the hill and into the pure
mountain streams that flow from the earth.

It's exactly the same in Arizona at Big Mountain.
Where strip mining for coal has turned the earth into
a fountain
Of total devestation in exchange for the flow
Of all the cash that they can stash until their cover
is blown.
Yeah, America the Beautiful stole all of this land
From a native population that didn't understand,
Until it was too late, what was REALLY on the mind
Of our Uncle Sam... it was genocide!!!

So, You want to have a talk about the land of the
free?
We have more people in jail than any other country
In the civilized world... whatever that means.
But maybe it is not as bad as it seems. 
Yeah... maybe acid rain is just a horrible rumor
Started by a liberal with no sense of humor
About the clouds of corporate chemicals created "out
of thin air".
It's tragic, but the magic ingredients are there:
A glutonous public that doesn't really care
About the suicide society that has suddenly appeared
to be choking itself with taxpayer dollars;
They've got to drop a lot of bombs to drown out all
the hollars
Of the millions and millions who have taken to the
street,
Speaking up for community and promoting World Peace.

Capitalism is not as good as it sounds!
It may work for a few, but it keeps the masses down
And slaving for a lifetime of mortgage and debt
With no way to escape it except for placing a bet
Or buying a ticket that wins the lottery,
And everybody says, "One day it will be me."

So, what are the odds that we'll ever get beyond
The human desire to use it up until it's gone?

I can't believe we are still fighting about religion.
Jesus born in Bethlehem said, "True LOVE is
compassion."
And what about Ghandi, and Martin Luther King,
And mother Theresa, and Peace Pilgrim walking
From the early 1950's until 1981
On a pilgrimage across America?
And what about Concepcion in front of the White House
At the anti-nuclear vigil that she and Doubting Thomas
Began at the beginning of the Reagan years?
Her "right to free speech" has brought her many tears,
But still she sits there day and night
Talking to the tourists about the plight
Of the world's children

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