A catchy, upbeat social protest number by the Washington DC indie pop band about curtailed freedom of speech, prejudice and social division from religion, taken from the forthcoming new album Wearing Out The Refrain, out on Don Giovanni Records in September. Bad Moves are Daoud Tyler-Ameen, David Combs, Emma Cleveland and Katie Park. To explore and enjoy more by them, see the other embedded links below.
It could have been today, it could have been next week
When the cops blew the whistle on a house party
That was some time ago, and that was imminently
And it spun out of control cyclically
And the trouble if you’re thinking categorically
Is there’s masculine, there’s feminine, there’s androgyny
And there’s in and there’s out, and then there’s me
When the state comes to police the boundaries
I was brought up with religion, I’m no stranger to faith
I learned to love thy neighbor in like a hundred ways
But when there’s social control masquerading as virtue
Well that’s the type of pill that won’t do nothing for you
And they’re drafting up a law a couple states away
Unambiguously, that’s in the present day
When the cops blow the whistle on who you can be
Then the riptide pulls you down, hey, hey
When ya do ya hallelujah I see through ya
To express oneself, now expressly forbidden
That’s a spiritual hell, that’s a new prohibition
And they’ll boil you down to reproductive function
When they see you as a vessel and not as a person
And then it’s teachers on parents, and parents on teachers
A culture of snitching and paranoid grievance
And then it’s students on teachers, and teachers on kids
You go “blah blah blah blah freedom,” but that’s not what it is
When ya do ya hallelujah
I see through ya
Shut it down
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