New! Fuel Funeral Democracy
Democracy
Lyrics Resources
In
The Spirit
Should
I Let You In
Slipping
Away v. 2.0
Video
- Slipping Away It's
Alright
Hiding
Rain
Something
Better Spunky
Funk James
and Marybeth
Poltergeist Wander Shake
All Over
Monsturd
Theme Monsturd
Movie e-mail
Blog Writing
New
Music Business Models
Artist Rights
Fight
CARP
(a.k.a. "a day in the life of my mind for five minutes five minutes ago")
Words and Music Written and Performed by Lisa Rein
MP3 WAV Directory for source WAVs
ZIP of all source
(If you need this in another format, let me know)
I wrote this song after having a conversation with a friend of mind about the crazy dichotomy that has become our existence living as Americans.
We talk about bringing democracy to the middle east, and are killing people over it, yet we work with non-democratic governments to keep democracy from the people of another country, if the price is right.
In the song, I start out with China, but I end up here at home. What kind of a democracy is so greedy its government cuts emergency relief efforts out of the budget, while spending billions of dollars overseas to kill the people of Iraq in the very name of democracy? Our current "democracy," that's what kind.
I'm not trying to pick on Google either. This is about all of us, and what we've all been tolerating, for years now, and about that horrible feeling you get when you realize that you don't live in a democracy anymore, and it doesn't seem like you can really do anything about it.
Also of note is that I recorded the vocal and guitar tracks using Audio Recorder and the built in microphone on my mac laptop.
Although I did mix it together in protools afterwards, I think it's a great example of how far you can get with consumer grade equipment/software these days.
(O) Lisa Rein "Democracy" lisa@lisarein.com 2006 V.1.0
This song is also available under the EFF's Open Audio License.