And so, what do you wonder......
© lyric written Sep 2022 here https://allpoetry.com/poem/16752236-A-Wonder-Wander-by-Lockdown-Larcs
and AI music helps it to wander musically

A Wonder Wander

The album closer reimagines the classic 1912 Lawrence Textile Strike song "Bread and Roses" for 2025, honoring the tradition while updating for intersectional struggles. WikipediaWMNF Opens with solo acoustic guitar and voice, traditional folk style, singing the original verse about hearts starving as bodies starve, about beauty and art being necessities not luxuries. "Hearts starve as well as bodies, give us bread but give us roses."
But then each verse adds a contemporary struggle: Trans people demanding not just survival but joy and celebration (gender splendor for everyone); disabled people demanding not just accessibility but full participation in society; reproductive justice meaning not just legal abortion but comprehensive care, childcare, paid leave; workers demanding not just living wages but dignity, democracy, and control over their labor; housing justice meaning not just shelter but community, culture, and homes that don't displace; immigrants demanding not just legal status but belonging and freedom from persecution.
Each verse builds instrumentally—first bass, then drums, then electric guitar—until the final chorus is a massive, soaring anthem with all the themes united: "We're fighting for our bread, our roses too / Trans liberation and reproductive rights / Labor unions and a place to live / Disability justice, immigrant freedom / All of it together, all of us alive / This is our time, this is our fight."

Bread and Roses (2025)

Paths

Hurt By You

Hurt By You (Stripped)

Right Back

Tell It To Me

I Slept On The Floor

Let Us Be Broken

My Killer feat. Tuvaband

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I wanna walk
Through an alley at night
Without making a knife with a key
Like, "Oh, my god,
It’s safe
To be me"

I wanna drink 
’Til I’m drunk
And not think about 
Everything wrong that could be
Like, "Oh, my god,
It’s safe
It’s safe
To be..."

Me off my face
At a stranger’s party

I was asleep   
And he touched
My body

Wished I could think
But my brain
Was foggy

I did nothing wrong
Why do I  
Feel sorry?

‘Cause they tell us that we should take care of ourselves
That if we dress like this, then we’ve asked to be felt

I wanna walk
Through an alley at night
Without making a knife with a key
Like, "Oh, my god,
It’s safe
To be me"

I wanna drink 
’Til I’m drunk
And not think about 
Everything wrong that could be
Like, "Oh, my god,
It’s safe
It’s safe
To be..."

Black in America 
Black and shopping

Black on a jog
In a locked apartment 

Black in car 
On the sidewalk dancing

They didn’t nothing wrong
Why are they in heaven?

‘Cause they tell us that we’re only meant for a cell
That if we look like this, then we’ve asked to be killed

I wanna walk
Through an alley at night
Without making a knife with a key
Like, "Oh, my god,
It’s safe
To be me"

I wanna drink 
’Til I’m drunk
And not think about 
Everything wrong that could be
Like, "Oh, my god,
It’s safe
It’s safe
To be me
Ohhhhhh
To be me
Ohhhhhh
Be me."

To be me

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My Killer feat. Tuvaband

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