One Girl Band

voice, guitar, acoustic bass guitar, drum loop, sampled e.pno, synthesizer, percussions, fuzz guitar



A variation on the Mother Earth metaphor. I nicked the line "Dissent is what will save us" from Amy Goodman.
Amy Goodman is here: http://www.democracynow.org/


They want to tell us how to do it
Then tell us that it can't be done
They'd like to bottle our sunshine
Or just block out the sun
But what they don't understand
Is that they'll never break up our one girl band
No they will never break up our one girl band

There's no more West to be won
But they still need their guns
All their guns
They'll get no bullets from you
Just a light on the hill
And the breeze off the lake
Dissent is what will save us
Dissent dissent

They want to tell us how to do it
Then tell us that it can't be done
They'd like to bottle our sunshine
Or just block out the sun
But what they don't understand
Is that they'll never break up our one girl band
No they will never break up our one girl band

We used to run in that field
Now it's a palace of deals
What a steal
We won't fall under the wheels
Get that root cellar full
Put tracks in the snow
Dissent is what will save us
Dissent dissent

They want to tell us how to do it
Then tell us that it can't be done
They'd like to bottle our sunshine
Or just block out the sun
But what they don't understand
Is that they'll never break up our one girl band
No they will never break up our one girl band

© 2010 John Newlands