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Posioned Flower

by Christian Schormann

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When I grew up I hoped and believed the world was on a path towards universal democracy and equal human rights for everybody. Perhaps it was a rocky path, but surely we had found institutions to keep the demons of populism, tribalism and cynical power politics in check? The poisoned flower of political power through hatred and fear has come back into our life, infecting us just like that virus out there.

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when i was a young man growing up i thought
we'd overcome the horrors that our past had brought
we wouldn't stand again for the populist's drug
cause we had learned our lessons from the graves they dug
we'd all know better than to fall for hate
cause we had felt the pain that'd be our fate
"us against them" is not what our world would be
truth and real solutions is what we would see

yet now it seems we have forgotten what it takes to be free
that it means to live together without fear is the key
to not have your neighbor see you as the enemy
because you think a different answer yields a better destiny
or even worse because you can't see past the color of her skin
and whitewashed history and then forgot about that sin
that lingers in the air despite the self-righteous perfume
that we all so much like to consume

and you shrug about the sound of lies and damn civility
cause your tribe | won't let you reason flexibly
compromise is treason as some cynics control politics
principles and truth don't matter to the power addicts
always distrust those who raise tempers and emotions
dark streaks that far too often caused explosions
resist all opportunity to shape hate into power
because human evil easily grows from that poisoned flower

It's like that virus so desirous
eating away at society
it's like that virus so desirous
so destructive in its notoriety
it's like that virus so desirous
how hate and intolerance threaten our life
it's like that virus so desirous
undermining the world of democracy

It's like that virus so desirous
normalizing insanity
it's like that virus so desirous
destroying trust and legitimacy
it's like that virus so desirous
basking in outrageous conspiracies
it's like that virus so desirous
please protect your mind with civility

It's like that virus so desirous
replacing facts with ideology
it's like that virus so desirous
ears bleeding from hypocrisy
it's like that virus so desirous
make deals with the devil despite the means
it's like that virus so desirous
driving our world to autocracy

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released October 3, 2020
Vocals by Liel Bar-Z

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Christian Schormann Seattle, Washington

Christian Schormann makes music, jewelry, and software, amongst other things.

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