Moved - a protest song (Patreon)
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Started writing this on May 30th, a day with especially high police violence in response to protests against police violence. I tried to leave a lot of "space" in this one. No instruments, and not overbearing backing vocals. Will hopefully be recorded with a full on choir at some point.
Lyrics:
Moved Key of A
Chorus:
A
You can’t beat it out of me
D
can’t tear my right from me
A/C# E
no I will not be moved
A A7/G
So sing out and shout it
D GM7
stay gathered ‘round it
A/C# E A
Say I, will not be moved
A
They do not teach the names of the
D A
ones that came before
F#m
the ones who died and bled
Bm7 E
so that we could fight for more than the
A/C# A/G
freedom to shop at a
F#m Bdim7/F
slightly different store
A/E E A
may it burn down, and not be moved.
Chorus
We all need a home and we
need something to eat
and to walk at night alone and not be
murdered in the street by some
bully with a gun who’s job must
matter more than we do
lay down, do not be moved
Chorus
Every couple years we
repeat it all the same
march and sing a song
while cops shoot at future names
how many must we learn to
get our kind of change?
Won’t you help us to not be moved?