Gran runs to break the ballots Those old weathered hands Are the answer to why Youth never had a chance Lined up in a row, walking stick in tow The tide of lies that they believed Turned a vote to a stampede
With age comes weary wisdom With age comes deathly fear You’re cold, scared and vulnerable Your once distant future is now here Your time has been and gone Don’t hold the next generations back With outdated bigotry and hatred You’re white blood cells on the attack
I’ve lost track of all the times you spit the seeds out in the grass I wonder if in time The seed will birth a tree to feed the classists Leaves will blossom, weeds will rot them Fire will burn the bark to ashes The smoke makes me sick, there’s no wood left to build my kaleidoscopic casket So I can bury all my points of view I can’t be ambivalent near fascists