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You see this pattern over time: The revolutionaries promise to be a liberating force, much different from the status quo leadership. And yet, once they get power, they guard it jealously and take on the attributes of those they ousted. And the cycle continues.

It started as a funk tune; a touch of reggae may have encroached.

Lyrics:

The oppressed become the oppressors
Once they pull the levers
Happens every time
Doesn't matter which side

A revolution is just one spin of the wheel

The youth, they're all fighting the system
But slowly and surely
They become the system

New boss
Is always
Just like
The old one

Justice
Turns into
Just us
Nothing new

Liberation
Morphs into grievance
Morphs into vengeance

"Fight the man," they say
But they're the man one day
And they're suspicious

Ideals are cited
To fight the power
But once they get the power
They use it and abuse it

New group 
Is no better
They just think they are

They choose their facts
That show them in the best light
And rivals in the worst light

Us good
Them bad
Tribes
The oldest excuse to fight
Both sides think they're absolutely right

They criticize others' faults
And they disregard their own
They're all about liberation
For them and their clones

The oppressed become the oppressors
Once they pull the levers

The oppressed become the oppressors
Once they pull the levers

Copyright 2025, Penrose Bunnington

The Endless Cycle

Samba Esquema Novo é o álbum de estreia do cantor, violonista e compositor brasileiro Jorge Ben Jor. Foi lançado em LP em 1963, contando com o grupo de samba jazz Meirelles e os Copa 5 como banda de apoio.

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Tim Maia, THE Brazilian Funk Soul Godfather was the real thing. His 1970 debut album introduced his audacious talent, as well as North American soul and funk musical influences, forever changing Brazilian popular music. His legendary appetites sought out carnal AND spiritual fulfillment in equal measure.  He bought 100 hits of LSD and handed them out to the staff of his record label. At the height of his mid-70s success he joined the Cult of Racional Energy; watching for spaceships while wearing only white clothes and playing only white instruments! Yet the two albums he recorded for the Cult are among his best. His songs search for love, and they dig into the existential. His own lyrics say it best: “I am so groovy now and I don’t care!”

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