Lyrics to a reggae-styled song I wrote in the fall of 2001, right after 9/11. With Christofascism on the rise maybe the song is still relevant?

Deadly Dispensation

Preachers calling unto heaven
To open the Seventh Seal
And to hasten the progression
To Armageddon’s field

These men say they’ve been anointed
They say they know the Will of God
They want to see the world disjointed
And wandering in the Land Of Nod

All you People of the Nations
Will you buy their dispensation?

Men calling unto heaven
To open the Seventh Seal
To bring on Armageddon
But their cunning’s concealed

Pat Robertson and Falwell
Sell their prophecy and snake oil

Preachers calling unto heaven
To open the Seventh Seal
And to hasten the progression
To Armageddon’s field

--by Mousetoescamper, 2001

Democracy

Fog is rolling in
On the darkling sea
We’re cast adrift on a crippled ship
We Christened the Democracy

The mutineers are roaring
They’re banging on the cabin door
The bulwarks that we built
Won’t protect us anymore

Frontiers are disappearing
The border lines are breached
The victors and the conquered
Bloodied bodies on the beach

We took more than our measure
Piled stolen treasure to the sky
Now the galley’s shelves are bare
And the water barrel’s dry

Fog is rolling in
On the darkling sea
We’re cast adrift on a crippled ship
We Christened the Democracy

--by Moustoescamper July 4, 2022

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I'm happy to be here participating as a member after lurking for some 20 years. I joined last Tuesday but I've been with the longtime members, in spirit, since somewhere around the 2000 election. Coming here was therapeutic during the W years--and it's been even more so since 2016! Many thanks. I'll try to give back some of what I've taken away. Politics brought me here, but it was the feeling that I belonged here that kept me coming back and eventually joining.

Later,
Mousetoescamper