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Shrug (live 5/25/19)
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When you feel like giving up
Remember where you started from
Forgive yourself for all that you fucked up
Because that’s done
Keep on stepping one by one
Nobody said this would be fun
Keep focused on your dreams eyes to the front
Until the race is won
Some will call you foolish
Others will call you dumb
People will say it’s impossible
You’re too old, too poor, too young
Some people will always get in your way
Thinking that they’re showing you love
Just smile and give those motherfuckers all a shrug
When you feel hope fading out
Don’t be afraid to scream out loud
Some days it’s hard to just get off the couch
When fear abounds
At some point everybody doubts
And sometimes it’s a lonely route
But every winner loses more times than she can count
That’s what I’m talking about
Some will call you foolish
Others will call you dumb
People will say it’s impossible
You’re too old, too poor, too young
Some people will always get in your way
Thinking that they’re showing you love
Just smile and give those fuckers all a shrug
Untamed thoughts are a disaster
You’ve gotta learn to be their master
You’re your own worst enemy
Some will call you foolish
Others will call you dumb
People will say it’s impossible
You’re too old, too poor, too young
Some people will always get in your way
Thinking that they’re showing you love
Just smile and give those fuckers all a shrug
Just smile and give those motherfuckers all a shrug
Just smile and give those fuckers all a shrug
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This isn’t where I thought we would be
Half a decade deep celebrating white supremacy
Fear is an easy sell like reality TV
Evangelicals chose the candidate of bigotry, the hypocrisy
Privilege is ignition
It burns in the alt right
These are people who think women should be in kitchens
These are people still against miscegenation who think white men are maligned
And they speak their mind
So I’ll speak mine
When you politicize reproductive rights
You threaten the lives of people that I love
When your immigration line is that it’s deportation time
You threaten to destroy families that I love
Dr King dreamed about equality
This morning I woke up and felt like that dream died
The successor to my county’s first black president
Is a KKK supported climate change denying, misogynist who lies
72 percent of the time
It still makes me cry
What do you say to the kids that wake up today
Who aren’t christian, white, able-bodied, and straight?
It’s hard to teach them to love even in dissent
When ridicule is embraced by the president
FUCK THE PRESIDENT
So now we’re standing in the present naval gazing at the past
Depending on where you’re standing
It might not look that bad, if that’s the case you’ve been had
We can never go back
This isn't where I thought we would be
Half a decade deep celebrating white supremacy
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I’ve been writing letters to you
Like my life depended on it
Front door, sidewalk, mailbox ritual 2:00 AM
They only make me feel better
When I seal them up
Envelope, Scotch tape, postage stamp write your name and address on
Ive been lost before
That always led me to the liquor store
Now I’ve got no means to cope
Losing my grasp and hope
Try to relax I think
Jill can get Valium for me
My heart is pounding now
Sarah’s somewhere out about
I can’t calm down
I remember
Your umbrella shielding us from the rain
Holding your hand
Saying your name
Train ride to the City
After making out in front of children and strangers
If you’ll be happier babe
Put this behind
Go your own way
Just remember our Dark Crystal day
You refuse to talk at all
Maybe you're all fucked up about it
Our time, over, what was that, I don’t know who we were
I’ve got the letter you sent
And the the last pants you wore
Evidence you loved me
Evidence you were here they keep me breathing
You weren’t just a dream
We loved each other and it’s hard to believe
That you don’t want me near
The pain of missing you my dear
Your heartbeat sped up, temperature rose
Kissing your body while you took off your clothes
You’d scream into the night
“Baby don’t stop I’m right there"
I remember
Your umbrella shielding us from the rain
Holding your hand
Saying your name
Train ride to the City
After making out in front of children and strangers
If you’ll be happier babe
Put this behind
Go your own way
Just remember our Dark Crystal day
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Hey man look down at your dick
Nobody is trying to control it
Think about it while you sit
Now is the time to not act like one
I stand with the women
I stand with the girls
But songs and prayers and pledges are just talking
We’ve gotta work together
To change this fucking world
The ocean she, is you its me we’re waves in it
Hey man can you imagine this
Forced vasectomies or abstinence
And women would legislate what you could do with it
Do you think you could handle that?
I stand with the women
I stand with the girls
But songs and prayers and pledges are just talking
We’ve gotta work as together
To change this fucking world
The ocean she, is you its me we’re waves in it
You’re arguing for power
You’re fighting for control
Without autonomy her body’s not your own
It’s not yours at all sir
I stand with the women
I stand with the girls
But songs and prayers and pledges are just talking
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Rue Snider New York
Brooklyn-based singer songwriter Rue Snider combines 80s alt sonics with a lyrical style reminiscent of 60s rock revolutionaries.
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