Beat by LaLoquera- Medio Loco
(found at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WHDCOoak3h8)

Intro

Beat by Makeeng - Longue Nuit D'Hiver (found at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KLoE4gk3sjw)

Dry River Bed

Produced by HunesBeats (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mm_PH5BadTk)

Dead Kids

A song I made about for-profit healthcare and its consequences.

Beat: Toxins, by Jiem EB Music (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OjLFJp0gWeo)

Healthcare

Beat by Kezi Beatmaker (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9w0umBX0SY4)

Song inspired by the book "The Antifascist Handbook" by Mark Bray.

Lyrics:
Those who don't learn history are doomed to repeat it
Those who teach it wrongly, though, the prophecy, they complete it
They teach about facism, but i dont really like it
Dont teach me how it came to power, tell me how to fight it

Teach me about the ins and outs of the battle of cable street
How to organize activists to ensure fascist defeat
the proper way to shut down fascists preachers when they speak
and why its more important than abstracted quote freedom of speech

Tell me how it's subtle, tell me how it's hard to recognize
tell me about the different forms it takes and all of they disguise
Fascism isn't just soldiers marching down the street
It's the declaring any group of people as evil and obsolete

Jews, gypsies, gays, all labelled as an irritant
Nowadays with a renewed focus on the immigrant
"Immigrants that's different, they're illegal", save it for later
As if someones dignity's tied to a sheet of paper

Or determined by their birth's geographical location
Arbitrary designations separating different nations
"If they come legally it would be fine", 
why not make it easier to come in? they get tongue tied

Far rights gone mainstream now, become respectable
presentable, hateful message suddenly electable
Accepting them just cause they wear suits and ties
That's like caring more about the wrapping than the gift that's deep inside

They wear makeup to try to show a pretty face
while their true selves is in the policy they legislate
They want to be racist, but racism is so disgraced
that they attack different culture, a proxy for their race

Claiming decorum, spread through internet forums
latching onto young ones unfamiliar with their slaughters
or those disillusioned with neoliberal society
no jobs no hope and almost all precarity

And i get it, people so fed up
that they are willing to try literally anything to switch it up
 But to know if your rhetoric's an evils being, tell me
does its platform involve degrading other human beings

Does it blame an outsider group for your ills?
Does it advocate for state violence against ilk?
Does it claim to be invaded by an outsider force
equating refugees to 13th century mongol hordes?

Does it claim to be under a perpetual state of threat?
we need order and strength for safety mindset?
Does it otherize, claim to fight to save our purity
to save "our way of life", protect our security?

If so, then more likely than not,
It's evil rhetoric, and deserves to be stopped
So grab your friends, grab you peers, fuck, drink a couple beers
be creative in your protests, act out, get weird

protect the vulnerable, the migrant, the refugee
the minority, those who cant defend themselves steeped in poverty
those who be of a different sexuality and who 
don't adhere to patriarchal white conformity

Learn self-defense, Organize patrols
Learn creative strategies that don't exactly fit the mold
Read a book or 2 (or three or four)
Rise to the call of duty if fascists appear next door

Bray

beat: RITMO PESADO by FlowBeats (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cC7iwDM5EaI)

Lyrics:

It all starts out at a big CAFO meeting
Shareholder execs drink wine as a greeting
Protesters gather outside to stop air bleeding
But security is thick, so attention's only fleeting

It's decided that the wishes of outside will be derided
CFO wishes its operations not divided
It was slighted; but through GOP introduction
No longer any concerns, time to ramp up production

But for Jonathan outside this means nothing but drama
Air pollutants ill-suited for his little girl with asthma
He sent letters pleading, but it fell on deaf ears
What's a child's lungs compared to a profit driven career?

He tried invoking laws, evil's not always illegal
He voted for his rep, one pales with a million people
He called those elected, but lobbying did its trick
Tried peaceful protesting, wider world don't give a shit

So he pushes through the fence to try looking in the eye
At the business suit and tie who said his daughter ought to die
But security guard's had it; so when Jonathan comes forward
The baton bats on his face, a never ending quarrel

But Cindy over here's upset cause the planet's dying
Antibiotic resistant bacteria killed Lucy's dad, she's crying
Mark needs a higher wage, he doesn't get to choose
And seeing Tyson beat hid friend, he's got nothing to lose

So batons become warning shots as mob moves in
Pepper spray don't keep the crowd away as they won't give in
Live fire is responded to by stampede at the helm
Tyson security is quickly overwhelmed

Crowd pushes through, bashes doors, guards are few, they are more, There's a fuse, please no more, mob will do horrorcore
Execs who try to flee, it's too late 'pparently
Mob induced sanity, make ad-hoc guillotine

News crews cover issue with fear, sense of panic
But at this point in time most of the public has had it
Since there's more coverage on this mob and deaths
Than corporations who kill, pollute, steal with every breath

So the riots spread, all issues rolled into one
Foreign policy, corruption, climate change, pension funds
Wars, abuse, legal theft, poison foods being sold
Insurance companies, bailouts preventing banks to fold

Spying, advertising, greed taking over lives
Exploitation and precarity causing mass suicide
Amazon paying no taxes, meaning's been switched
Redistribution means taking from the poor and giving to the rich

Blatant laws not even trying to hide their misdeeds
Shortsightedness mixed with avarice mixed with greed
Passing what the rich want, not what the people need
But the crowd's had enough, so the world starts to bleed

Collapses, infrastructure destroyed,
Kids with molotovs who've had enough of TV hacks who're acting tough
and call their bluff that they'll be rough and change the stuff they say shut up
and toss it up to light it up and greedy people that they'll snuff

True, most people and youth don't give a damn
Shut up in their rooms in fear, or hashtagging on instragram
But enough people are upset to get up and riot
It just takes one match for the gas cans to light it

First US falls, then Paris, then South America
Palestine, Mexico, China, Saudi Arabia
Politicians guillotined, execs quarantined,
CAFOS broken into and the captive animals released

Cities burn, fascists gather, anarchists take the matter
Into their own hands, roads closes, government's disaster
The police keep order, to mixed success
Some cities they succeed, others fall like the rest

Finally it quiets down, nothing left from the ashes
Some place stand, others die, some are still in clashes
Is the lesson learnt? No, not even through this song
Cause the shortsightedness means nothing can be wrong

So please, pretty please, stop wealth inequality
Stop the laws that allow the rich to do as they please
They will steal and harm until the world's at a corner
Like an angry wounded bull, then the mob will more forward.

Making of a fifth of Rum

Reloveution

Beat: 'Too Real' by Khronos (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fv9vV_lATPE)

Lyrics:

I'm a cynic
Used to be an optimist, now I just get on with is
I'm a cynic
Used to like the future now know its nothing but a gimmick

Take tech, raised on promises of internet
Not being racist rapist cesspol and lying intercept
New features had me giddy, excited, bamboozled
Now I wonder what data Stadia's feeding into Google

New social media feature got a plus for engagement
Just a strategy to maximize profits through engagement
VR will be a blessing upon this nation
To pump us full of ads, i.e. corporate manipulation

Cynic 'bout the musi too, it sucks, it is fucked
Where it's all electronic and controlled by marketing buffs
Hating younger music's fine, don't think it's something heavy
It might be normal when you're old, I'm barely in my mid twenties

So help me regain optimism, in politicians too
The fact that I look at all these hacks and think we're screwed
So im cynic of politics, no matter how left they've acted
I just wonder how long until they sellout like Barack did

The future of the world's dimming
2019 and the facists are winning
And the alternative is some neoliberal capitalist
Who makes the situation worse enabling facists to exist

The left is there too I guess, but not a current option
Focusing too hard on petty to focus hard and solve the problem
The left's plagued with in-fighting, what is there to do
When every leftists ego fifty times the size of their IQ

Polarizations rising, can't talk to the other
They tell me to be civil, but for that I'm truly bothered
Why on Earth would I be civil is what I wanna holler
When civility gets Trumped by the likes of Mitch McConnel

Be civil with the racist anti-science war mongering
Climate denying, anti-vax, religious thumping
For whom rationality and common sense is not suited
I'm better of explaining shapes to the flat earth movement!

Now why am I like this, why don't I fight this
Feeling that I am in a perpetual state of crisis
Where there's no hope and happiness' been mauled by an ice pick
And stress causes pain like a pin neath my eyelids?

I miss the days of being just a happy little kid
When opening the TV didn't make me go "OH SHIT"
It's like I'm addicted to humanity's worst
And revelling in being unable to fight off this curse

But I have to be a cynic, it's not something I choose
College means ignorance is no longer an excuse
If I don't don't fight it i'll be enslaved slash controlled
Which will be worse than what I'm suffering now, ten fold

Not to mention, it might be rosy for me
But there are plenty others who do not get to reap
Or be able to constantly bask in the positivity
Since my wealth and happiness is based on their suffering

So to ignore all these problems would be truly selfish
And doing too little too late could make life hellish
So I have to be a cynic, and fight for what's worth
It's my responsibility as a citizen upon this Earth.

Cynic

Beat: In Cold Blood by Orlath (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zDzaCQdcFTc) 
Mixed by Landr (landr.com)

Verso 1

Me levanto, y observo los problemas de este mundo
Y me derrumbo al instante al ver el rumbo eligido dudo
Si podremos salir de este hoyo tan profundo
cada problema resuelto aparecen diez mas, y justo

en este dia, viendo los  problemas socials
las guerras, la corrupcion, tratando a otros como animales
Jovenes sin futuro cuyo valor es ser explotable
Y una inderencia tan perversa que ya es palpable
 
Pienso que porque la-gente no se levanta
Claramente algo va mal, claramente algo falla
Pero claro, soy un hipocrita, llamo a la revolucion,
Sin haber roto un plato en mi vida, tumbado aqui en mi sillon

Con palabras aludiendo a la lucha armada que en 
cuanto haya que actuar se quedan en nada, vaya drama
Inteligencia suficiente pa ver que algo va mal
Sin la huevos para iniciar un cambio de verdad

Por que lo normal es que tenga miedo a la policia
A la inconveniencia que esto traiga a mi dia a dia
Incapaz de saltarme un dia de trabajo
Mientras ninos mueren en palestina, mola mazo

Es posible que el mundo cambie sin que me estorbe a mi?
Sin que me cuese trabajo, dinero..? Cabron, di que si
El cambio es sacrificio, perder, dolor y esfuerzo
Si fuese facil cambiarlo todo entonces ya estaria to resuelto

Porque cuando intentas cambiar los que tienen el poder
Te veran, preparan, y te van a responder
Pero lo que pides es dificil - no te hagas ilusiones
O cambias o te destrozan - esas son tus dos opciones

Verse 2

But its easier said than done to get over your fears
I mean I hate to say this, but my career is actually very dear
I hate to lose it, and on top of it all that I hear
is socialization that's gone on for some 20 plus years, it goes
  
Fit the mold since the quest for gold will pay itself tenfold
In terms of happiness: never mind the toll
it costs: so keep your head down in public, cause
a human being is only worthy if you're economically productive

And if you try too much to protest or fight back
You'll go to jail, and good luck getting a job after that
Not to mention a social system that is so nefarious
that life without a job seems so damn precarious

With no food, no education, barely any healthcare
No social programs; fuck social welfare
Without a job how can you afford an expense
Hell my current salary's barely enough to cover rent

So we place ourselves in debt for a single piece of paper
That serves the requirement for an allright job later
Where the pays ok but 10 hour days are the norm
working overtime is normalized and we are forced to conform

To not lose my job and stay one step ahead
despite exhaustion and anxiety making me wish that I was dead
I know its exploitation; I know the system's cursed
I know it all; but I also know that unemployments worse 

Not to mention being embarassed when I'm forced to tell my parents
that your sacrifice meant nothing, i fucked up my life prospects
so between working my job and the fear of losing that
How am I supposed to find the time and energy to fight back

Verso 3

Pues si tienes miedo a tu jefe, puto hereje
Y no quieres cambiar nada, pues coño, no te quejes
quizas pierdas tu trabajo, no es cosa sencilla,
hay que romper un par de huevos pa' poder hacer una tortilla

You ever truly suffered? I thought not
You been hungry, diseased, depressed, jailed, and beat up by cops?
In a theoretical world your models nice
But this ain't theory, it isnt fantasy, this is real life

Y la vida real no es justa, eso es verdad,
Pero tienes que perder el miedo al fracasar
porque es insostenible vivir en esta realided
Y si sufro sere el martir pa que el cambio pueda triunfar

Well then do it! Take a stand! But before you start cussing
Match your actions to your words, then we'll start talking
I know I should be the first one to take the plunge,
But as you yourself will notice, that's easier said than done.

Apatia

Beat: Pray by Anabolic Beatz (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Py2loss9i6I)

Image by OpenClipart-Vectors from Pixabay

Lyrics
There's a miscellaneous uni in a miscellaneous state
Whose reopening plans are, at best, a mistake
Realistically a money grabbing plan made by snakes
With zero plan to properly contain the outbreak

Make no mistake, bringing kids back to campus
With in-person classes, teachers taking chances
Catching COVID is a coin flip for those teaching lessons
The RA's and undergrad kids with no proper testing.

And the union says "Hey!
You know that massive endowment 12 billion or so you've saved for a rainy day?
COVID, economic doom, the world is slowly waning
How many drops have gotta fall to know that it is raining?"

Well you ignored us; called us jerks, called in your own experts
ignored them too, I guess the truth hurts
Reopen without caring bout the health of ann arbor 
Accepting 30 million from that landlord Ron Weiser

[...] No Comment
Then you wonder why most of us are angry slash despondent
Supporting labor tweets for a marketing persona
But threatening the students who dont want to get corona  

Bringing more police on campus, and I gotta wonder
Did you not pay attention to the going ons this summer?
To the black lives lost, cop brutality asunder,
You cannot claim ignorance any longer, so!

---
(Chorus)
Public Health informed response, thats a lie
Caring about students, that's a lie
Not being profit driven vultures, that's a lie
Every email they send, yet another lie

Your public Health informed response, thats a lie
Caring about community, that's a lie
Not being profit driven vultures, that's a lie
Every statement that you make, yet another a lie

---

What's disgusting? Union Busting! What's enraging? This contagion!
What's enraging are the ways that this administration
has forsaken those it is meant to protect
Gaslighting undergrads, grad students, GSI, parents  

With misleading statements, threats of retaliation
Painting us as radicals ungrateful folk, blaming
the undergrads eventually for the spread and the dead
not the greed you let disease seeds germinate in your head

If you want to break us up, you best try better
We're a union, and union means we always stick together
We may disagree on tactics, but we do not fight the facts
Number one: union always got each others back

Number two: every single  member's voice is heard
even if they think that your offer is stupid and absurd
Cause your offer is a joke, we're not stupid, we're not dumb
We won't give you the baguette if all that we get are the crumbs

Number 3: solidarity for you and me
And for every other person in the world, don't you see
You might not understand it, we embrace it, for you it is a sin
But that's why we are stronger and that is how we win.

(Chorus)

And so we picket to encourage class disruption
Hoping to change the course of a uni in combustion
Even though they threaten us, promising to union bust
Making even toughest hearts quaver with fear in the dust

And yes this is scary, but make no mistake
I will picket with union till my arms to start to ache
I will march on with union till my legs crash and break
And I will fight on with my union because everything's at stake

-----

I march with my union, wanna know why?
For a safe and just campus, that is why
For black and latino lives, that is why
For the most vulnerable here, that is why

I march in solidarity, that is why
For black and latino lives, that is why
For a safe and more just world, that is why
I march because they march for me, THAT IS WHY

-----

Just kidding... don't actually march until you break down.
You're no use to the labor movement broken.
Rest and recuperate. Self care y'all.
Come back stronger than ever.

Solidarity Forever.

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