1. we're shitting bricks
we're spitting mad
we're restless and exhausted
we're grateful but so sad
you worship money
cash is your church
and your god's the easter bunny
if rent's due on the first

CH
you're corrupt just look at the destruction
you never gave a fuck about us
don't you come back no more
hit the road jack
put your money stacks
 in the body bags
don't ya come back no more

2. i post my privileged protest
from the unemployment line
do you like my brand new soapbox
i got it on amazon prime
contagious convenience
continuous corporate news
freedom turns to greed cause
if you're poor or your brown
you don't get to choose

CH

br. 
maybe it's too late and
we got it cause we asked for it
baby here's your hell in a 
trump-branded casket
or maybe we are right on time
with fresh air to breathe
and we'll build something much better
if you just fucking leave

​CH

1. since shelter in place
got nothing in the bank
stopped touching my face (mmm),
and stay six feet away (mmm)
i take my time with tasks
all my friends are sewing masks
my plans all got replaced
with sanitizing every space
but i keep on clinging
to my musical upbringing
hoping all this singing in your screen
will help it be alright

CH
we just gotta put each other first
and stay at home so it don’t get any worse
keep thanking all the folks who are hard at work so it tapers off tapers off
don’t spend all your time getting mad on twitter
pick up a pen and write your senator
or pop your head in on a struggling neighbor
til it tapers off tapers off

2. i never miss a Zoom,
i sterilized my broom
but sometimes the doom and gloom (mmm) keeps me stuck inside my room (mmm)
you’re not in this alone
just make the moves up as you go
be good to folks you know
and even the ones you don’t
but just remember
you’re your own defender
not just in November
people have the power
to make everything alright

CH

*some lines from this song are pulled from Elizabeth Gilbert’s Big Magic as reference/wink to the book. How to Be a Winner When You Lose was a song prompt from Eagles Songwriter Jack Tempchin

​Verse: D C Bm A
Chorus: D A G A // G A D C Bm G A
 
it's not like i was asking loss to be my best friend
but she stuck around when the chips were down
i've always found her at the bitter end
it's not like i've forgotten where the doors are or how to knock them
i quite like the sound of the pavement pounding
underneath the steps of my ambition
 
i wanted big magic
the kind of life that shoots across the sky
lighting up the dark
i've got this book of matches
wet with regret, splintered with time
and I can't find the spark
seems like big magic's only big hat trick
is to go when she knows you blew a fuse
she'll leave you sitting in the dim
learning how to be a winner when you lose
 
it's not like I'm complaining about the waxing and the waning
i prefer the rise and fall of a curve ball
i'm always honored by her visitation
it's not like i am choiceless or powerless or voiceless
but i feel so weak, it gets hard to speak
in the ruthless furnace of expectation

*written to the tune of “Part of Your World” from The Little Mermaid
 
i guess it's trump, what a crushing defeat
can't believe he's allowed in the president's seat
can't everyone see he's an ass - an ass who hates everything?
look at his team, dangers untold
how many disasters can one cabinet hold?
somebody pass me a drink, at this point i’ll drink anything
 
he hates brown people, gays, the disabled
he hates women and science and more
i was sure no one thought he was able
i was wrong, now I'm scared, of what's in store
 
i wanna be where the sheeple aren't
i wanna see humanity advancing
exercising your, what do you call it? oh - brain
grabbing pussies got trump this far
not paying taxes or his employees
bragging about, what's that word again? rape
sexual assault is not fucking fun, just ask his victims, every last one
the jock gets away and the best we can say:
rape's just part of our world
 
what would i give if i could live where people were smarter?
not pray away gay, or get in the way of a parenthood planned
don't you understand this is a man who has objectified his daughter? still there are women who voted him in, it's unreal as his tan
 
i'm not ready to reap what the people sow
we've got some questions, let's find the answers
starting with lessons we've already, i don't know…learned
when's it our turn? we know what we need:
to live in a land ruled by love and not greed
out of the debris, how about you and me take charge of our world?

*verses co-written with Veronica May (chorus/bridge partial cover of Snoop Dogg/Pharell song of the same name)
 
starting out it was the shot heard round the world
a committed lady going after a noncommittal girl
but then time, time finally took its toll
life was the objective and love was the goal
and then i said...

you're beautiful, i just want you to know, you're my favorite girl

finally settled down and things got better
consider this song a little love letter
it's like a whole new life now that you're in it
baby be my wife, and let's begin it

i just wanted you to know that you are really special