"When both Pandemic and Repression
resorts to some poem and song"
Background:
It was some days ago when yours truly was listening to an Ulster Loyalist music. Quite catchy tho the tune and the words given, knowing that the Loyalist who listened to Tina Turner's song seemed inspired to create their own version both to inspire theirs and against their Irish foe during the troubles.
Strange especially that this writer isn't much listening to pop, but that tune somehow did compelleth this writer to create something that points against the order especially with this pandemic situation and how the order use it as a chance to create draconian laws like the "Anti Terrorism Act" and its related actions in the name of "peace and order".
And this followed by another listening to a song that again Ulster Loyalists borrowed a tune from Johnny Cash's song (all about his love for Ireland) and created a lyrics of theirs telling about their action in Ardoyne against the Irish Nationalists. So strange that they created their own rendition using a song from an American-Irishman, with words glorifying their loyalty to the crown and against the Nationalist cause.
But for this writer, again, he created his own words that again sought to dethrone the order and challenge their treatment against the people, and how people took to action regardless of the risks "as they moved to another stage" of resistance like the Irish do against the Loyalists- and like Johnny Cash, they professed their love for their emerald isle as the reason for their action.
To cut this note short, these works would say made out of boredom, if not channeling his sleeplessness, of turning thoughts after both this pandemic and the system's repression into poems or even version of songs out of what he heard today or some days ago.
Simply the best (the people's struggle than all the rest)
(inspired from the song of Tina Turner
revised by the "Ulster Volunteer Force")
The people are summoned, preparing to fight
(Fuck the system, the president)
All ready to battle fighting for the right
(Fuck the system, the president)
Just swear your allegiance to Freedom
Together we'll fight to the death
Come brothers and sisters, all comrades as one
(Fuck the system, the president)
A one great union and sure with a gun
(Fuck the system, the president)
We all know our people they won't be forgotten
We honour them now.
Chorus
They're simply the best
The people's struggle than all the rest
Better than anyone
Like the system and its president
The flags are on high
And we have sworn that
we'll fight till we die
Loyal and true
Defending the Red White & Blue.
Our comrades from country are ready to move
(Fuck the system, the president)
No matter the law bends us still battles go through
(Fuck the system, the president)
The people, the nation, prepare to break the roads
for country's proud name.
The red flags are waving once-empty street
(Fuck the system, the president)
No matter the risk message's never retreat
(Fuck the system, the president)
Let no law nor force will break us
-Resistance's the way
Chorus
So listen people! They won't get control
This homeland of mine, will never be sold
Prepare for battle, it's coming today
No surrender-freedom's the way!
Chorus
"The action is not a party, but the joys continue on"
(To the tune of "The night we burned Ardoyne")
I've often thought and wondered what the outcome might been
If the masses rise up the streets turned fiesta as one seen
Like those in Escolta or Mendiola as where I had been
A party as a protest to an order very mean
Do you remember the actions, all as called sobriety
Like the one the media been called "miracle of the rosary"
But the hopes turned all but nothing, as the damned oligarchy
Turned the guns towards against us, in Mendiola as one see
The events can't end all our hopes, but instead filled our rage
Like the past the people fight back, till moving the next stage
History has come to tell ye, that the struggle still lives on
And the battle the order's trouble- till their terror be no more
The action is not a party, but the joys continue on
For the people's will as goddamn right while the system is but wrong
By all mean including by the gun we will never all be down
Like the colours in the flag flying, so the cause be renown
"It is better to fight back than live in a life of servitude"
It is better to fight back than live in a life of servitude
No matter life as its price the struggle should rage on
As the world whose oppressed has awakened from its sleep
Through the battle drums of struggle the awakening are raging
The people had reached the limits of enforced sobrieties
As they wished for that goddamned justice, liberties
Prayers, Sacrifices, Pleas are all not enough
Not even the laws being done- waste of papers all but none
The children are dying in famines as the order enjoys the fruits
And the rest levied exoribtantly with the same order more they took
When will the people awake and come to their senses
That their enforced contentments bring sorrow to the masses?
Time and again this oppression continues to reign
A continuity in different themes, their ideas in changing phrases
Of glass and steel facades trying to hide the inconvenient shanties
If not praising the glories of the cities enough to divert from the country's miseries
Still this country remains at the hands of the same order whose mind can't refuse
To keep their interests firm, "why fear the abuse"?
Not surprising every changing themes
As seeing new masters' faces same thoughts as old bosses
Thoughts of blaming to the awakened masses
As the latter expressed angst if not demand a future
But freedom and justice is not obtained by begging
By appeals political power is not won.
There is nothing new in this "New Normal"
There is nothing new in this "New Normal"
Despite the order proclaim
For same old policies
Are ought to remain
Supported by new dreaded acts
Trying to ensure our silence
Trying to cower us by fear
In this pandemic-driven pain
There is nothing new in this "New Normal"
For despite numerous deaths
Life continues to go on
I don't know if that moving on meant "moving forward"
But as what they say, they simply "move on"
Moving on while the system create new things
Situations enough to silence us again
Be it by law, or by the truncheon's blow
Prison cells be filled, trumped-up charges then
But one thing I realise this "New Normal"
Is not caused by a global pandemic
It is brought by an incompetent order
Acting so aggressively insanic
The fear is not something viral
But from an order that's abnormal
Let's flatten the curve both 'gainst the microbe and the rascal
From this "We'll redeem as one"