Uncle Jon's Farm
Democracy's Dream
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Uncle Jon’s Farm - Democracy’s Dream, 2020
The follow up release to A View From My Porch, Uncle Jon’s Farm returns with what is best described as a protest album. Inspired by the 2016 election and the ensuing years of political chaos and attempts to erode democracy, UJF hold nothing back as they explore life in the “post-truth” era of Trump.
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01. DAD (Donald Affective Disorder)
02. Divided
03. Sensationalizers (FCC Charter Be Damned)
04. The Rule of Law
05. Democracy's Dream
06 - Mother's Voice
07. Give Up On Me
08. So Bad, So Sad
09. Healthcare is a Right (HIAR)
10 - Brown Banana
11. Confirmed
12. Christmas Alone
13. EA-AH
DAD (Donald Affective Disorder)
Feeling so blue
Since November Ninth
A miserable time
The sun hasn't shin'd
I went to doctor
Afraid I'd gone MAD
The good old doc
Said I had DAD
(I'm so sad I have DAD)
It
It takes the light
From every day
Why won't the "bad"
Man go away
It takes the light
From every day
Why won't the "bad"
Man go away
A crooked man
Makes fake news
Why
Why won't the "bad"
Man go away
Just go away
Days went by
I misunderstood
Thought the season was the reason
I'm not feeling good
I sought the light
As I thought was ordered
I then realized
Donald Affective Disorder
It
It takes the light
From every day
Why won't the "bad"
Man go away
it takes the light
From every day
Why won't the "bad"
Man go away
A crooked man
Makes fake news
Why
Why won't the "bad"
Man go away
Just go away
Everyday I want to feel better
But in this game my card is Trumped
Had a relapse
When the orange man tweeted
Chaos and Covfefe
Made me feel so defeated
Couldn't believe
That I'd live to see
The United States'
Crazy presidency
(I feel like I'm going crazy)
It
It takes the light
(Wrong)
From every day
(The President?)
(Wrong)
Why won't the "bad"
(The President?)
Man go away
(Wrong)
it takes the light
(The President?)
(Wrong)
From every day
Why won't the "bad"
(Wrong)
Man go away
A crooked man
Makes fake news
Why
Why won't the "bad"
Man go away
Just go away
All my days
I've never seen
Something like this
Donald Affective Disorder
It
It takes the light
From every day
(Donald)
Why won't the "bad"
Man go away
(Donald)
it takes the light
From every day
(Donald)
Why won't the "bad"
Man go away
(Donald)
A crooked man
Makes fake news
(He make fake news! He Screws Us ALL!!)
(Donald)
(Donald Affective Disorder)
Why won't the "bad"
Man go away
(Donald Affective Disorder)
Just go away
Just go away
(Donald)
(Donald Affective Disorder)
Why won't the "bad"
Man go away
(Donald)
(Donald Affective Disorder)
Just go away
Just go away
(Donald)
(Donald Affective Disorder)
Why won't the "bad"
Man go away
(Donald)
(Donald Affective Disorder)
Just go away
Just go away
(Donald)
Divided
A great divide heeds a call.
All for half and none for all.
A spacious land from sea to sea.
Blue red and blue where none can agree.
Color and faith and gender and class.
Gives rise to a split, critical mass.
What can be done by the community.
To come together in harmony.
Open our mind.
To the luv in our heart
Open our mind.
To the luv in our heart
Open our mind.
To the luv in our heart
Open our mind.
To the luv in our heart
Divided by truth, divided by lies.
Certainty doesn't live, fact has died.
A more perfect union seems out of reach.
Founding fathers rolling in mass graves.
Democracy's out, Declaration has decayed.
Path of the dream has radically strayed.
How can we set such hate aside
For the dialogue that we've denied
Open our mind.
To the luv in our heart
Open our mind.
To the luv in our heart
Open our mind.
To the luv in our heart
Open our mind.
To the luv in our heart
Stop it now, all the hate.
That divides our fate.
Division in our humanity?
What do we need? What do we need?
Open our mind.
To the luv in our heart
Open our mind.
To the luv in our heart
Open our mind.
To the luv in our heart
Open our mind.
To the luv in our heart
Love each other now, before it's too late
Open our mind.
To the luv in our heart
Our country divided isn't the way
Open our mind.
To the luv in our heart
The way to go into a future day
Open our mind.
To the luv in our heart
Is with love...... Love in our hearts
Open our mind.
To the luv in our heart
Stop it now, all the hate.
That divides our fate.
Division in our humanity?
What do we need? What do we need?
Stop it now, all the hate.
That divides our fate.
Division in our humanity?
What do we need? What do we need? LUV!!!
Sensationalizers (FCC Charter Be Damned)
As public trustees, broadcasters may not intentionally distort the news.
Sensationalize.
Every chance we get.
Gotta make that money.
It's a sure bet.
Compromise .
The truth with no regret.
Telling all those lies.
Hoping that they forget.
Bastardize.
Information from a Tweet.
turn it into news.
A delight for the screen.
Glamorize.
Violence, hate and fear.
Never tell the truth.
The truth, will not sell.
Afford a reasonable opportunity for the presentation of contrasting viewpoints.
As public trustees, broadcasters may not intentionally distort the news.
Making lots of money now.
Not like the old days.
When we had to report the news.
In an honest, In an Honest way.
In an Honest way.
In an Honest way.
In an Honest way.
Report the news
In an Honest way.
In an Honest, Honest, Honest, Honest, Honest........
In an Honest way.
Report the news.
Emphasize.
a political horse race.
While leaving out.
Money from the NRA.
Trivialize .
Objective reality.
Make it all Subject.
We have to pull at the heart strings.
Making lots of money now.
Not like the old days.
When we had to report the news.
In an honest, In an Honest way.
The great exploiter.
(Report the news).
She strikes again.
In an Honest way.
In an Honest, Honest, Honest, Honest, Honest............
(Report the news).
She strikes again.
A two-part obligation for broadcasters.
(Report the news).
Provide coverage of vitally important controversial issues of interest in the community served by the station.
Sensationalizing to sell ads .
And, afford a reasonable opportunity for the presentation of contrasting viewpoints.
The great exploiter.
(Report the news).
As public trustees, broadcasters may not intentionally distort the news.
Sensationalizing to sell ads .
The FCC has stated publicly that "rigging or slanting the news is a most heinous act against the public interest."
(Report the news, In an honest way).
The great exploiter.
She strikes again.
FCC Charter (What they are supposed to be living up to)
"A two-part obligation for broadcasters.
Provide coverage of vitally important controversial issues of interest in the community served by the station.
And, afford a reasonable opportunity for the presentation of contrasting viewpoints.
As public trustees, broadcasters may not intentionally distort the news.
The FCC has stated publicly that "rigging or slanting the news is a most heinous act against the public interest."
The Rule of Law
Ignorant man
Part of a master plan
To blur truth and fiction
(Without friction)
It's all for ego
Now here we go
Down the path of war
(And what's more)
Rights violator
Wannabe dictator
Thinks cash is king
(But there's one thing)
The thing that leads
that feeds his needs
Is praise that we just won't sing
(But we'll sing...)
I want ...... the rule of law
I want ...... the rule of law
Corporate welfare
And Psy-Warfare
Breeding oligarchy
(And soon tyranny)
Wonder if he knew
What we knew
The travesty it would be
(Could he see?)
For all its lies
The spider realizes
It's just a fly
(Does he know why?)
Is the solution
Revolution
Or just ditch 45?
(Congressional goodbye)
I want ...... the rule of law
I want ...... the rule of law
What will be left
When we reflect
What will be left
We'll Regret
I want ...... the rule of law
I want the rule of law
I want ...... the rule of law
I want the rule of law
What do we want?
The Rule of law.
When do we want it?
Now.
What do we want?
The Rule of law.
When do we want it?
Now.
What do we want?
The Rule of law.
When do we want it?
Now.
What do we want?
The Rule of law.
When do we want it?
Now.
What do we want?
The Rule of law.
What do we want?
TRUMP GONE!
When do we want it?
Now.
Democracy's Dream
Where is the truth
in dishonesty
Inside all the lies
That are fed to me
The truth of it all
Should be easy to see
But there's alternate truth
In the land of the free
The world weeps for tomorrow's dream
The world's weeping for Democracy
Democracy's Dream
Why are we undoing
History
When we were on a path
To prosperity
The ego of a man
Will start World War three
Can't you see the end
While we sit around helplessly
World War Three
The world weeps for tomorrow's dream
The world's weeping for Democracy
Democracy's Dream
(Dream, Dream, Dream, Dream......)
March in the streets
hold up your sign
You are the generation
To define the times
March in the streets
And hold up your signs
You are the generation
To define the times
Mother's Voice
Beyond the pines, I'd make you mine
And you would learn your name and learn your mother's voice
Through passers-by, on mountain high
Though broken I would love without condition
And I'd break my life upon a splintered farmhouse door
To see you wake each day devoid of fear
And I'd break my life upon a splintered farmhouse door
To see you wake each day devoid of fear
Below countless skies, each of my lives
with every burning world you remained mine
Lost memory, could not lose me
Through age's vaulted doors I became yours
And I'd break my life upon a splintered farmhouse door
To see you wake each day devoid of fear
And I'd break my life upon a splintered farmhouse door
To see you wake each day devoid of fear
Lost memory could not lose me
Upon the farm house doors I became yours
Give Up On Me
Everyone warned you,
Especially me
You tried to see something
That just couldn't be
Was it my facade
Or your projections
Did you want to play savior
Or have simpler intentions
No, no, no, no, no
No, no, no, no, no
No, no, no, no, no
No, no, no, no, no
Just give up on me
Just give up on me
Just give up on me
And I'll stop hurting you.
When those who love you ask why
What's the answer they're given
Each time I betray you
I'm always forgiven
Do you imagine devotion
Making you admirable
Seeing yourself break the cycle
Of what's inevitable
No, no, no, no, no
No, no, no, no, no
No, no, no, no, no
No, no, no, no, no
Just give up on me
Just give up on me
Just give up on me
And I'll stop hurting you.
No, no, no, no, no
No, no, no, no, no
No, no, no, no, no
No, no, no, no, no
Enough of your attempted empathy
Nobody asked you for your sympathy
Just turn your back on me
And I won't ruin you.
No more pain
Just give up on me
No more pain
Just give up on me
No more pain
Just give up on me
No more pain
And I'll stop hurting you.
No more pain
No more pain
So Bad, So Sad
Lies and lies and all this other stuff.
Lies and lies and all this other stuff.
Lies and lies and all this other stuff.
Lies and lies and all this other stuff.
Lies and lies and all this other stuff.
Lies and lies and all this other stuff.
Lies and lies and all this other stuff.
Lies and lies and.
So bad, so sad
Something must be done?
(Longing for comfort)
Fake news, so huge
Something must be done.
(Longing for comfort)
Be done
So bad, so sad
Something must be done?
(Longing for comfort)
Fake news, so huge
Something must be done.
(Longing for comfort)
Be done
My world is full of lies and insanity.
How can I add a bit more humanity?
My minds attacked...... on a daily basis
My minds attacked...... on a daily basis
By a small minded tyrant who's clearly a racist.
So bad, so sad
Something must be done?
(Longing for comfort)
Fake news, so huge
Something must be done.
(Longing for comfort)
Be done
So bad, so sad
Something must be done?
(Longing for comfort)
Fake news, so huge
Something must be done.
(Longing for comfort)
Be done
I wonder if
it's permanently broken.
Maybe the right words are just left unspoken.
Perhaps the blind can begin to see
Perhaps the blind can begin to see
But it sure won't happen by taking a knee.
So bad, so sad
Something must be done?
(Longing for comfort)
Fake news, so huge
Something must be done.
(Longing for comfort)
Be done
So bad, so sad
Something must be done?
(Longing for comfort)
Fake news, so huge
Something must be done.
(Longing for comfort)
Be done
I've given up hope.
As I look for a solution.
As a nation we're sinking fast
Under this mental pollution
An IQ so low
Leads this nation
I just want to know,
I wanna know
Maybe I don't
Yes, I want to know
But, maybe I don't
I just want to know
I whan'ta know
What makes him tick
I whan'ta know
How the evil is licked
I whan'ta know
If it's OK
To walk away
So bad, so sad
Something must be done?
(Longing for comfort)
Fake news, so huge
Something must be done.
(Longing for comfort)
Be done
So bad, so sad
Something must be done?
(Longing for comfort)
Fake news, so huge
Something must be done.
(Longing for comfort)
Be done
I'm longing for the comfort
I'm longing for the dream
I'm longing for the comfort
I'm longing for that sweet sleep
The dream.
Healthcare is a Right
If the government
Loved my child too
They'd prioritize
The health of our youth
Got the gun to my head
You got that gun to my head
A doctor's knowledge
A huge commodity.
These hippocratic hypocrites
Don't care for you or me
You got that gun to my head
Holding that gun to my head
You got that gun to my head
Why not just shoot me dead
More dangerous
Than the surgeons knife
If I lose my coverage
It could mean...... my life
You
got
that
gun
to my head
And you know, now a days
Even if my dog is sick
A bill so thick
I'm feed'in those vets, like a pig
Got the gun to my head
You got that gun
That gun to my head
I'm groping for the farthest crevices
Of what, I can see
My account in collections
While I'm dying needlessly.
Got the gun to my head
They'd rather see me dead
A drug that might save a life
A miracle for sure
But there's more cash
In treatment than the cure
Got the gun to my head
You got that gun to my head
Healthcare is a right
That belongs to you and me
Healthcare is a right
That shows that we are free
Healthcare is a right
Why won't congress see
Healthcare is a right
Why can't I be free!?!!!
Every day I try so hard
To do...... what's right
And now it's the government's turn
To deliver on, our promised, rights
I say......the man
He holds all the cards
Life and death, meaningless
The healthcare of disregard
You got that gun
Why not just shoot me dead
You got that gun
Why not just shoot me dead
You got that gun
Why not just shoot me dead
(We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.)
Brown Banana
Yeah she's my brown banana
Yeah she's my last call girl
They can't all be rosy peaches
When you're chasing cherry swirl.
Yeah she's my brown banana
Yeah she's my last call girl
They can't all be rosy peaches
When you're chasing cherry swirl.
Shimmy shaking down at QXTs
Want something tasty from the goth ladies
I'm sending drinks and I give the eye
But one by one they walk on by
Strawberry lips and vanilla skin
The place is spinning from the shape I'm in
Lights come on, she go from ten to two
But you gotsta do whacha gotsta do
Yeah she's my brown banana
Yeah she's my last call girl
They can't all be rosy peaches
When you're chasing cherry swirl.
Yeah she's my brown banana
Yeah she's my last call girl
They can't all be rosy peaches
When you're chasing cherry swirl.
Start at twelve, still alone by three
Each drink I offer gets downed by me
Chiquita smiled as she caught my stare
But her man showed up and was a prickly pear
End of the bar I found my lady luck
She over ripe but good enough to pluck
Three fifty-nine and we're the last two boozers
But baby beggars can't be choosers
Yeah she's my brown banana
Yeah she's my last call girl
They can't all be rosy peaches
When you're chasing cherry swirl.
Yeah she's my brown banana
Yeah she's my last call girl
They can't all be rosy peaches
When you're chasing cherry swirl.
I gotta tell you something my man
I see you at the end of the bar,
Looking over at her, she looking at you
You're the last two there
Your thinking, man, she's a brown banana
Ya can't be having that, but let me tell you something
Mr. Man, Mr Gentleman
You a brown...... banana....... too.......
Yeah she's my brown banana
Yeah she's my last call girl
They can't all be rosy peaches
When you're chasing cherry swirl.
Yeah she's my brown banana
Yeah she's my last call girl
They can't all be rosy peaches
When you're chasing cherry swirl.
Yeah she's my brown banana
Yeah she's my last call girl
They can't all be rosy peaches
When you're chasing cherry swirl.
Yeah she's my brown banana
Yes she is
I gotta tell ya somethin'
You better be careful
With that brown banana
You never know how it's gonna taste
Yeah she's my brown banana
You just never know my Friend
But you know what
Desperate times
Desperate pleasures
Confirmed
Here I sit, in front of congress.
Lots of questions.
Which is it, the chicken or the egg?
A Circular argument,
That never goes both ways.
Every time I talk.
I have less to say.
I want you to believe
that, that, it has to be me.
(L-I-E)
I want you to believe
My decisions are Holy
I want you to believe
that,. that, it's only me.
(L-I-E)
I want you to believe
My temperament is divine
If they knew,
Of my convictions
A partisan fight
Of epic proportions
I fight to hide, what I really think
It only takes one mistake
And they'll know I'm a fake
I want you to believe
that, that, it has to be me.
(L-I-E)
I want you to believe
My decisions are Holy
I want you to believe
that,. that, it's only me.
(L-I-E)
I want you to believe
My temperament is divine
In my daily life
I seem fair and honest
Unbiased
As pure as a snow white dove.
In this way
I will get a seat
On the highest court in the land
Secured through deceit
The Justice System
I only sort of believe
Whats in for me
Is my ideology
So I'm glad
Today's partisan divide
Provides me with a way
To cheat the other side
I want you to believe
that, that, it has to be me.
(L-I-E)
I want you to believe
My decisions are Holy
I want you to believe
that,. that, it's only me.
(L-I-E)
I want you to believe
My temperament is divine
I want you to believe
that, that, it has to be me.
(L-I-E)
I want you to believe
My decisions are Holy
I want you to believe
that,. that, it's only me.
(L-I-E)
I want you to believe
My temperament is divine
Christmas Alone
So guess what time of year
Oh shit, it's another one
Fucking hate this time of year
With all this fucking, fake cheer
Christmas alone, Christmas alone.
I'll try to get away with another one
Tell em' all that they can't come
Tell them that I can't go there
Christmas alone, Christmas alone.
I don't even believe in this shit
That is with my atheism
I can't believe all the havoc it leaves
Makes people crazy
I really believe in...
Christmas Alone, Christmas Alone
Christmas Alone, Christmas Alone
It makes me stronger to think
That I can't do anything for you
And everything is bleak
This is why I don't, visit you......
And a final decision is... made
A gruesome revelation, a clue
I can't make it by myself
I...... I really need you
I can't make it, by myself
I...... I, I really need you
Christmas Alone, Christmas Alone
Christmas Alone
But at the end of the day
There's only one person
That has the sway
To make me feel in such a way
That it's.......
Christmas, not alone, Christmas, not alone
Christmas, not alone, Christmas, not alone
It makes me stronger, to...... think
That I can do anything for you
And everything...... is... great
So I'll come and see you
We'll have, a really good time
But it's sort of vague and misleading
Is this really any better than......
Christmas Alone, Christmas Alone
Christmas Alone, Christmas Alone
Christmas Alone, Christmas Alone
Christmas Alone..................
Christmas Alone..................
But at the end of the day
There's only one person
That has the sway
To make me feel in such a way
That it's.......
Christmas, not alone, Christmas, not alone
EA-AH
There's an end to the war of religion
The true dogma, the human condition
There's an Abraham inside your brother
A Mohammed inside of your mother
There's a Moses, A John
Every prophet lives on
in each other
In each flag and each caste
in each tongue and each class
Every color.
There's a Christ that cares not for confession
A Yahweh guilty of your transgressions.
There are deities without deception
What we worship inside of perception
Though they don't live above
all your hate, all you love
are expressions
Of Allah and Kali
They're in you, they're in me,
without question.
It's the eyes, that we look through when lying
On your enemy's lips as he's dying
When you kneel and hope that someone's listening
When the answers you're needing are missing
Its the Lucifer, jinn
The Azazel within
You that's grinning
Though we know all their names
We're the ones we should blame
For our sinning
It's the ropes, it's the chains
The historical stains
We keep weaving the rope as we're tethered
Myth divides, binds us together
We write fables we need to be true
Fictions...... guide, all that we do
It's the Vishnu, the Savior
each made up creator
we pray to
Not in buildings or borders
Not in papal orders
But in you.
Look within and say Amen........
Look within..............
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