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THIS MACHINE
(from the album "Real American")
words and music
​copyright © 2008
by Roy Zimmerman and Melanie Harby

This machine speaks truth to power
Wo!
This machine saves baby seals 
Wo!

This machine sends fear and ignorance

To their certain doom


This machine drives Neo-con

Jingoistic, war-mongering

Xenophobic crypto-fascists from the room


This machine is the Bell of Freedom

At the end of class

This machine is the Hammer of Justice

And the Can Opener of Whoop-Ass


This machine has a liberal bias

As you might assume


This machine drives Neo-con

Jingoistic, war-mongering

Theocratic, faux-populist

Xenophobic crypto-fascists from the room


Yes, it’s all about bringing people together.  Bringing all kinds of people together, whether they want to be brought together or not.  Forcing people together, to live in perfect harmony like the strings of a banjo.  Okay, bad example.  ‘Cause there’s so much we have in common.  Even Radical Islam and our own Radical Right have something in common, and that’s homophobia.


So if I have just one message for you tonight

It’s “Do good in the world,“ and “Love each other”

And that’s two messages


So if I have just the one message for you tonight

It’s “Do each other.”


This music is the Spirit of Hope and Change

Yes it is

‘Cause whenever people hear it, they hope it changes


This machine shuts down the combine

Wo!

This machine turns Red states Blue

Wo...Idaho!


This machine survived the Cold War

And the Comedy Boom


This machine reaches out to Conservatives

I’ll tell you why
That’s the only way you’re ever gonna
Poke them in the eye


Anywhere you find good people

People singing Kum...baya


This machine drives Neo-con

Jingoistic, war-mongering

Theocratic, faux-populist
Anti-intellectual

Drill-aholic, social Darwinist,

Racist, sexist, isolationist

Tax cheat, C Street

Hard line, strip mine

Tea bag, Confederate flag
Birthers
Flat Earthers

Hate-speak-crypto-fascists

And Brit Hume

Screaming from the room


This version of "This Machine" is on the album REAL AMERICAN, available as a CD, as a digital download and as part of the Complete Collection.
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