I Don´t Want Solidarity If It Means Holding Hands With You

I Don´t Want Solidarity If It Means Holding Hands With You

Defiance, Ohio
(album: Share What Ya Got)

let´s stop this talk of privilege because the songs that we sing are as much a product of our privilege as the clothes on my back and the phone call i made to my mom last night. let´s stop this talk of action because action comes easy it´s the moments just before that are hard, when i´ve got to get my voice and my fist on the same page as my heart. let´s stop this talk of them because the things we find deplorable in politicians, ceos and cops are the same things that will tear ourselves apart. and let´s stop this talk of words because words like dishonesty selfishness and greed aren´t as distance to us as we´d like to believe.

so please, the next time you´re smashing the state, don´t go breaking my heart. because i know that when we pick up the pieces, the only thing left will be the same empty rubble that´s made up every revolution that i´ve ever known to make me believe and lose faith in humanity in the same empty breath of hot air.

they say that the beauty´s in the streets. but when i look around, it seems more like defeat. i´m afraid that this fight that we´re all caught up in will make us the same as that which we oppose.

so please, the next time you´re smashing the state, don´t go breaking my heart. but i know that we can pick up the pieces and build something new, something different. that´s not like every revolution that i´ve ever known that can make me believe and have faith in humanity and we´ll all breath a breath of fresh air.