I'll Be On Your Side

from Watch It Sparkle by ds|fečo

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In 2011, the Occupy Movement had a good idea with real analysis behind it. This tune came out of that early energy, but as the arrangement evolved, it took on the feeling of just hanging on.

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You wake up without a voice / the very day you need to scream
they cancelled all your choices / they’ve brokered all your dreams
How can I say it plainer there’s a war behind the scenes
where these colonizers of your soul / are tryin’ to seize control

Beware these pirates of semantics when they shrink life's meaning down
to their financial acrobatics / when they try your lives to own
Make no mistake they’ll fight to keep you working like a drone
like a slave for all your wages, but I say you’re not alone

I’ll be on your side; I’ll be on your side
Stand your ground, don’t be afraid / I’ll be on your side;
The violent and the mighty fail to quell the rising tide, so
Stand your ground, don’t be afraid / I’ll be on your side.

They’ll come at you with clubs and gas / They’ll play upon your fears
But know their power is vanishing / it fades like Empires through the years
The tears you shed when hope is gone become a river flowing on
You ride the tide of history and you are not alone

I’ll be on your side; I’ll be on your side
Stand your ground, don’t be afraid / I’ll be on your side;
The violent and the mighty fail to quell the rising tide, so
Stand your ground, don’t be afraid / I’ll be on your side

The evening shades are past and gone / the shadows slip away
The journey of 500 years / has brought us to today
Believe the god of history proclaims this sweetest mystery
a nation’s cruelest legacy’s redeemed for one and all

Imagine what our lives can be when from all masters we are free
when life’s more than commodity, and love’s the only power
You know they won’t go easy and you know they will go hard;
but you know they’re going anyway because the time is ours; and

I’ll be on your side; I’ll be on your side
Stand your ground, don’t be afraid / I’ll be on your side;
The violent and the mighty fail to quell the rising tide, so
Stand your ground, don’t be afraid / I’ll be on your side.

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from Watch It Sparkle, released March 24, 2015

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ds|fečo has spent decades composing and songwriting in near-total obscurity.

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