That's What It Takes

the RAINbow people ask
for ACCeptance
the RAINbow people quietly ask
for TOLerance
just tolerance

the rainbow people politely ask
you to UNderstand
is it REALly too much to ask
you to FEEL their pain
feel their pain

the rainbow people now remind you
of their PREvious request
the rainbow people now inform you
you have not COMplied like the rest
like the rest

the RAINbow people must now insist
on your DEFerence
the RAINbow people now require
your oBEdience
obedience

the RAINbow People’s Committee says
this is your FINal warning
he RAINbow People’s Committee says
your final warning
your final warning

Rainbow People

Too smart for our religion
and kind of bored with lust
and everything is turning into dust

satisfaction always
is satisfaction not
and what was ripe is turning into rot

everyone's so cogent
and everyone's so smart
but nobody can figure where to start

the clarity we're seeking
is in such short supply
is there where hope goes when its time to die?

all ideas are equal
all thought systems the same
and merit has been thrown out of the game

we take from everybody
who has something to take
and then we throw it all into the lake

into the lake
into the lake
into the lake  

into the deep dark lake

The Lake

A Real Rain

This Time Of Year

The twelve hundred started to arrive
At oh, about quarter to five

The young, the old, the in-between
as innocent and beautiful as you have ever seen

The twelve hundred didn't say a word

they didn't need to because by then of course we'd heard

we knew how they got here, we knew how they'd got lost

we knew just what their presence here had ultimately cost


One thousand two hundred souls arrived that mid-fall day
Plus some who never made it here, but didn't get away
Nothing could be holier than how they testified
Nothing more poignant than the way they died


The seventh was a sunny day, a quiet interlude

Strains of music on the breeze, a scent of spicy food

The song of love turned song of death and took our breath away

You cannot make this sane, moral or OK


One thousand two hundred souls arrived that mid-fall day
Plus some who never made it here, but didn't get away
Nothing could be holier than how they testified
Nothing more poignant than the way they died

One thousand two hundred souls arrived that mid-fall day
Plus some who never made it here, but didn't get away

The 1200

don’t know what I’m doing but I’m doing OK

don’t know how i got here you must have led me astray

don’t know why i'm living but
i sure am living it up

don’t know why i'm always
drinking from your loving cup


thanks to you i’m doing things i’ve never ever done before
thanks to you i'm traveling
on a worldwide tour
and i solemnly pledge:
ain't never gonna lose this war


thanks to you i’m doing things i’ve never ever done before
thanks to you i'm traveling
on a worldwide tour
and i solemnly pledge:
ain't never gonna lose this war


The devil in you always
wears an angel’s clothes

and when the danger seems to fade
is when i fear it most

the ones who come here bearing gifts
always rob me blind

and what i'm always looking for
is never what i find 


thanks to you i’m doing things
i’ve never ever done before
thanks to you i'm getting rich
after always being poor
and i solemnly pledge:
I ain't gonna lose this war

i solemnly pledge
i’m never gonna lose this war

never gonna lose this war
never gonna lose this war (never gonna lose)
never gonna lose this war (never gonna lose)
never gonna lose
this
war

This War

Working hard on quantum gravity
between bouts of sexual depravity
cause in the end scientists are human too

now while this problem's not exactly urgent
i'd like to know if spacetime's emergent
like to know why we're here, wouldn't you?

cause in the end all I'm looking for is a little bit of truth
a little confidence in what is real before i lose my youth
but these experiments just seem to have no end
so I'm gonna make the call, let's just pretend

'fake it til you make it' is the mantra of our time
and using Chat G. P. T. is hardly some great crime
it's something that everybody seems to do

we're on this earth to leave a mark - I totally get it
but soon as I have an original thought, I forget it
so i walk around on eggshells, afraid I might do something new


cause in the end all I'm looking for is a little bit of truth
a little confidence in what is real before i lose my youth
but these experiments just seem to have no end
so I'm gonna make the call, let's just pretend


cause in the end all I'm looking for is a little bit of truth
a little confidence in what is real before i lose my youth
but these experiments just seem to have no end
so I'm gonna make the call, let's just pretend

yeah I'm gonna make the call
let's just pretend

Let's Just Pretend

Come Emily

I will never let you falter
I'll be your rock of Gibraltar
Never let the facts get in your way

You'd rather be right than truthful
Babe, you're pretty and so youthful
It's time our generation had its day
Whaddaya say?

Hey Hey
Whaddaya say?
We're here to rip their world away
Hey Hey
Hey Hey
Hey Hey

Tweakers and potheads proliferate
All that's common sense disintegrates
Unicorns and rainbows rule the day

There's no such thing as gender
Keep that money, screw your lender
It's time for millennials to show the way
Whaddaya say?

Hey Hey
Whaddaya say?
We're here to rip their world away
Hey Hey
Hey Hey
Hey Hey

Climate change is quite the crisis
White supremacists outrank Isis
On the list of problems of our time

I always struggled with reality
Who needs data or causality?
My ideas are so much more sublime

Hey Hey
Whaddaya say?
We're here to rip their world away
Hey Hey
Hey Hey
Hey Hey

Hey Hey
Whaddaya say?
We're here to rip their world away
Hey Hey
Hey Hey
Hey Hey

Gonna go to G*********y
All you J**s better fucking worry
We're gonna chase you out of P*******e

Can't you hear the song we're singin'?
We'll drive the English out of England
You non-believers won't get away this time

Hey Hey
Whaddaya say?
We're here to rip their world away
Hey Hey
Hey Hey
Hey Hey

Hey Hey
Whaddaya say?
We're here to rip their world away
(Hey Hey)
rip it away
(Hey Hey)
make them pay
(Hey Hey)

(Hey Hey, make them pay)

(Hey Hey, we're coming your way)

Hey Hey Glastonbury

way up here at thirty five thousand feet
tryin' a wedge into this narrow seat
feel like i’m in the best of hands
diversity, equity, inclusion, the law of the land

pilot’s up there working the controls
but what’s up with these dives and barrel rolls?
i guess human aviating is besides the point
everyone knows a CPU is running the joint


and this is a super good day to D.E.I.
a good day to D.E.I.
and i fly the friendly skies
this is a super good day for friends to die
i fly so high
but my pilot’s flying even higher than I

turn the dial with your hand
see if you can get the shortwave band
your nail extensions make it harder than it’d be for a man
the struggles of women of color - we all understand

altitude falling very fast
afraid pretty soon we’ll auger inna the grass
correcting this spin’ll take something more than sass
and honey you might not make it, even with dat ass
 
and this is a super good day to D.E.I.
a good day to D.E.I.
and i fly the friendly skies
this is a super good day for friends to die
i fly so high
but my pilot’s flying even higher than I

agnus dei
agnes D.E.I.

Rainbow People

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