From the recording Explaining Socialism 3-song EP
How the Virus Can Unite Us: All music, lyrics, and instruments by Pierre de Gaillande. Recorded and mixed at California Hill Studio, NY. Guitars recorded at The Sentry Box, Portland, ME.
Lyrics
No more bloated elephant
No more Nazi president
Crush the lying coward fox
And the greedy rabid hawks
No more military dogs
Dressed in racist camouflage
We don’t need your tanks and planes
Killing people in our name
Stealing money from the teachers
Justified by lying preachers
No more billion dollar toys
For those bullet-headed boys
Take a knee for planet earth
Nothing special about your birth
They were on the island first
Your tribe made it so much worse
Holding up a dusty book
Justifying what you took
But the people want it back
Step aside for red and black
So we gotta help our mother
Squash the elephant and fox
They want us to kill each other
With their guns and with their pox
Give the people reparations
Undivide the separation
Make a place for scientific truth
If it kills or if it saves you
Are we safe from fratricide
Uniformed in white pride
Lying lions, lie in wait
Propping up a dying state
Hypocrites are using hate
To jerk off the USA
Sing if you’re a human being
Who’s awake and who can see
Don’t ever go back to sleep
And wake up a slaughtered sheep
Better take it to the streets
Be obnoxious or discreet
While dismantling the state
There is no more time to wait
Constitution of this nation
Needs corruption vaccination
Smash the elephant and fox
And dismantle all the locks
We have all gone mad with virus
But this virus can unite us
No more tearing us apart
Use the rage inside your heart
No more tearing us apart
Use the love inside your heart
Give the people reparations
Undivide the separation
Now’s the time to stand and fight for truth
If it kills or if it saves you
Woke up from a fever dream
Strong and ready to redeem
Now’s the time to stand and fight for truth
If it kills or if it saves you
We all have the love inside us
And this virus can unite us
Everybody stand and fight for truth
If it kills or if it saves you