Lyrics for Activists. Got music? (copyright free, preferably)

[usonian]

Not your 60's Civil Rights music, but what the heck.
Creative Commons License
Use as you choose, modify.
It's a late night inspiration. -- rough edges?

Every day sees higher prices
Every day another crisis
Unhinged episodes combine (2)
Each more violent and obscene
To take the spotlight
— off Epstein

Everything that he accuses
is a thing that he abuses
It’s a place where he has gone
Like a shabby Mafia Don

Any One his outrage sways
Is a person he betrays
Words are just synthetic(1) honey, to
Drain your honor and your money

He claims he’s for America First
That’s a lie that’s just the worst
Billions for his foreign debt
We get zilch
— He gets a jet

Epstein, Epstein, king of blackmail
Conveniently, he died in jail
Victims aren’t free, (or) they’d he saying
The name of him that
— they’re still paying

Desperate to protect himself
He wants those files upon a shelf
Never ever to be seen
To protect the King and Queen


(1) or Grok-made, or duck-speak
(2) So Epstein is pronounced eps-teen?. I never knew him.
I was thinking of the main theme of Tchaikovsky's Fifth Symphony. YMMV, definitely!
Add an h below.
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[highplainsdem]

1. Re verse 1 - Jeffrey Epstein's name is pronounced Epsteen, not Epstine (so it won't rhyme with combine).

As for trying to come up with new music - I hope to God no one uses the genAI plagiarism machines trained on stolen intellectual property for either lyrics or music.

[usonian]

2. So much for my language knowledge. I take "ei" to be "ay"

Language seems to be all exceptions and no rules.

IMPROVEMENTS WELCOME.

Cost me ergs to write this. 🧠

I'll see what I can do before lunch. (rush job)

[highplainsdem]

3. I took three years of college German, and "ein" was always pronounced "ine" - but elsewhere, especially in names,

it varies.

[usonian]

4. Everything varies .... The Buddha

Time's but the stream I go a-ishing in. ... Thoreau

I had a few weeks of German in college, but years of operas after that.

Ring cycle continues at "At the Opera" Siegfried and Götterdämmerung the next two weeks.

https://live365.com/station/Bianco-s-Opera-Lounge-a27807
Saturday at 7 pm Pacific. Tiki Lounge at 5 pm Pacific.

If you're unfamiliar with these, please enjoy Anna Russel's brilliant and nutty introduction. (YT)

Before CapRadio had a fiscal catastrophe and kicked "At the Opera" off the air, they archived past operas.

Stopped in 2023.

https://www.capradio.org/classical/at-the-opera/