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While you live, shine, have no grief at all
Life exists only for a short while, and
Time demands its due
Wake up smiling each and every new day
Looking for new paths to make my way
Hoping for chances to arrive, come to stay
Possibility renewed, come what may
It don’t mean life ain’t filled with chaos and strife
Just means we’re not willing to accept it for the rest of our life
This universe, it exists for all lives within it
No favoritism, life gets more than it can deal with
The world holds opportunities both for good and for shit
An anvil, this life, in it, we’re the blacksmiths
Each dawning day, we rise with smiles
Fighting for life whatever comes as trials
No matter the struggle, however many miles
Hope in our spine keeps our minds full of wiles
The world is mosaic, community must be Lopen
Working in the local community keeps us open
Care for each other, that support keeps us hopin
Helps us stand together, when the greed comes gropin’
Those greedy billionaires, this gluttonous oligarchy
They want to keep us down, try to install autarchy
Our Constitution calls this utterly malarky
Reps not fighting back, oh, we judge it darkly
They all want to count us out, hope we will go quietly
You go on and hold your breath we call back defiantly
Each dawning day, we rise with smiles
Fighting for life whatever comes as trials
No matter the struggle, however many miles
Hope in our spine keeps our minds full of wiles
For ‘We, The People’, this mess will be a win-win
You’ll get thrown out or you age out, and we’ll rise again
There’s no way this country will bow under your reign
Your actions will go down as our nation’s deepest shame
This country and its people, we will outlast you
History will count you as our most ghastly fool
Your cronies and abettors, they’ll make that list, too
You sit by our agreement, in America…
THE PEOPLE RULE!