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Midge Potts is a social justice & anti-war/peace activist from Springfield Missouri who has performed from Camp Casey to DC and at coffee house open mics across
I am a transgender peace & justice folk activist musician orginating from the Ozarks region of Southwest Missouri in central North America.
Song Info
Genre
Charts
#110,640 today
Peak #152
#1,691 in subgenre
Peak #4
Author
Midge Potts (aka Maioan Person)
Rights
!!!Folktivism!!!
Uploaded
November 14, 2006
Track Files
MP3
MP3 4.1 MB • 128 kbps • 4:28
Lyrics
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 who get caught in the wars
Perpetrated by m
