Me & Joe Strummer

me and Joe Strummer

are gonna write a protest song

about cardiovascular exploitation

and the capitalism that overthrew

true love

how nobody knows how to dig in

and feel and be

because everybody needs

to fill the checklist

of consumeristic greed

to pass the quiz of what Cosmo and GQ

have said that love should be

and how shapewear has become

both the uniform and the torture

of the fascist patriarchy

of this sexy new regime

and how zombie movies are really

anti-immigrant

but ought to be

about the narcissistic epidemic

eating hearts and minds

and how this of any time

is when we should be playing

in the streets

and our only way to free

is to be shameless in our love

as long as our hearts can take

starving on the front

and how human beings

aren't entertainment

even if we ourselves believe we are

and how beneath the grassroots

and below the underground

is the only path to true salvation

so you gotta stay humble

until it kills you

but also it's OK to be angry AF

with a world that has been overwritten

with what connection is

so that there's constant machination

to flow it in one way

and the first thing we ever felt

when the lights switched on

inside our heads

has become a dead emotion

that sits beyond our resurrection

so we're just gonna sing

how we don't want a revolution

going round and round

but an evolution and an anarchy

to break our hearts out of the system

of scorecard masturbation

and finally find emancipation

to. just. fucking. love.