Bohemian Manifesto
Wake up you dreamers...Come on free spirits
Time to wake up Bohemia - Rise and shine!
Rise up you freaks...artists...poets...rock stars
It's time to stand up to the philistines
Time to challenge these knee jerk neo-conservative
red neck jocks out of Hicksville's weird Bible Belt dark ages
Time to out shout the loudmouth talk radio warmongers
who keep spewing the vile propaganda of fear
inciting hatred against anything liberal or progressive
they blame the decline of civilization on the poor and the queer
Time to shut down these mad cowboy robber baron warlords
break the death grip of their corporate feudalism and war
turn the tables on the moneychangers
and drive these gangsters out of power
How far right do fascists have to get
before we call them for what they are?
It's the same old army game from here to eternity
the same stupid old good cop bad cop routine
the same third degree...the same damned Inquisition
the same misguided witch hunt all over again
It's high time for a liberal dose of reality
we've been laisse faire about it all long enough
The hidden hand has been caught dealing under the table
It's time to call the cowboy's bluff
So rise and shine now you jaded old liberal journalists
It's time to start filing some more investigative reports
There's more to the story than anyone's telling
more to the big picture than network news and sports
Come out of the wood work you Bohemian refugees
It's time to create some more meaningful art
there's more at stake than a few phony wine and cheese parties
We've got to learn to aim for the heart
Come on you artists - Let's inspire humanity
to challenge the power of these neo-con-artist frauds
Let's blow their narrow little minds back to the stone age
and challenge the authority of their jealous little gods
© 2006 Gary Lee