Our incomplete entry for reddit's Game of Bands Round 28 (Minimalism).  Apparently our vocalist's email address got truncated in one of our communications and we assumed they had received the lyrics and the music only to find our error after the deadline for submission had passed.  So we have music by 1966ftw,  and lyrics by myself (iamdoubleplusungood).

"Simplify"

Wars and strife all round the world
Propaganda messages send opinions atwirl
Coutless lives snuffed out and lost
Over invisible lines supposedly crossed

	There's far too many issues
	Can't wipe em clean with tissues
	The world keeps on drowning
	In new crises, ever-crowning
	We really need to simplify
	'Fore we just wither and die
	Simplify

People cling close to their precious faith
Blinded all the while by hypocrital hate
Preaching equality and goodwill towards man
Yet only the persecuted dare take a stand

	There's far too many issues
	Can't wipe em clean with tissues
	The world keeps on drowning
	In new crises, ever-crowning
	We really need to simplify
	'Fore we just wither and die
	Simplify

Society expands, the landscape grows polluted
Those who stand opposed quite easily muted
Power and money transform the landscape
Natural beauty, serenity viewed dead weight

	There's far too many issues
	Can't wipe em clean with tissues
	The world keeps on drowning
	In new crises, ever-crowning
	We really need to simplify
	'Fore we just wither and die
	Simplify

It's clear to see that mere comparative pennies
Are spent in improving the needs of the many
Science is stymied by funds increasingly held back
To finance more death, more hated--what crap

	There's far too many issues
	Can't wipe em clean with tissues
	The world keeps on drowning
	In new crises, ever-crowning
	We really need to simplify
	'Fore we just wither and die
	Simplify

wolfbrother