From the July ’23 concert at Café Paloma, Seattle, this one an enumeration of all the ways democracy is a nice idea but doesn’t exist in these here benighted states.
We are sick and tired of being sick and tired of this mess
Two party oligopoly that blocks out all the rest
Let’s end this system now
Cho:
Let’s democratize elections
We need voting right protections
Stop Suppression hate and greed
Choose rank choice voting, yes indeed
We demand democracy
We have fought to get the vote for blacks and women and ex-cons
They have tried to block us out, those white supremist devil’s spawns
They will fight to their last breath of their demographic death
But the people now are woke
Cho:
It is past time to acknowledge
We’re so over the electoral college
Supreme Court overhaul
And shut the Senate down y’all
We demand democracy
We will fight for rights of immigrants, for sure most of us are
To the killing of black youth by cops we must say au revoir
And a woman’s right to choose is not a thing you can refuse
We will go marching on
Cho:
Solidarity forever
Forward ever, backward never
It’s the people who decide
It is time to turn the tide
We demand democracy