Four Women (And One Child)

from Live At Occupy Raleigh by GioSafari

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Four women and one child -
casualties of a violent society.
We come in peace, or so we say,
to bring democracy and liberate.
They were in the wrong place at the wrong time.
But where could they go to escape?

Four women and one child!
It was an accident, we are assured.
Bombs and bullets are indiscriminate
and made for killing. You want freedom, don't you?
Well, to make an omellette,
you've got to break a few thousand eggs.

But I'd rather go vegan.

Four women and one child,
Their deaths were inadvertent.
This we're expected to believe;
but multiply them 600 times
and we'll know how many more civilians
could not taste freedom in 2009.

And I'd rather go vegan.
I'd rather go...

Four women and one child -
but were they totally innocent?
Aren't we all violent in our own ways?
And aren't we all victims
standing on the other end of
the barrel of a violent society's gun?

Four Women and one child
driving to work, shopping, routine,
fall heavily to the ground
as though the bullets weighed a thousand pounds.
They were in the wrong place at the wrong time,
good eggs in a bad omellette.
And who wants to eat it anyway?
You can't eat breakfast when you're dead.

I'd rather go, I'd rather go vegan.
I'd rather go, I'd rather go vegan.
Yes, I'd rather go, I'd rather go...

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from Live At Occupy Raleigh, released April 12, 2012

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GioSafari New York, New York

GioSafari was the pseudonym for singer-songwriter and peace activator Gio Andollo. He lives in NYC, where he has committed to music - songwriting, recording, busking, performing, promoting - and activism. He speaks truth to power in the heart of Empire, recalling the subversive musical traditions of American folk & punk, singing for peace & justice, and advocating the use of bicycle helmets. ... more

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