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Songs Tagged: protest
15 songs
January 6, 2024
What's That Got to Do
A folk song arguing for bodily autonomy and the right to live without explaining yourself to others. Four verses speak from four different subject positions — transgender, dealing with an unwanted pregnancy,...
2016
Trump Fucked Blues
A traditional blues song using the extended metaphor of something rotten brought into the house. The argument stays in the household image all the way through — the smell, the rot, the wood beginning to...
Rough Working Demo
2014
Palestine
A political song of grief and witness, refusing the idea that any faith can own a piece of earth by right. Its refrain is simple and direct because the sorrow it names already says enough.
Found On This Album
2013
Ninety-Nine
A political song about collective resistance, built from paired opposites and crowd-sized images. Its refrain is plain and insistent: we can take it back.
Found On This Album
2016
Dear Comrade
A political song addressed to working people and the ways they are taught to misread their own hardship. Its argument is blunt because the stakes are.
Rough Working Demo
Video
May 19, 2019
This is How it Goes
A political song built as a rolling catalog of public types, false prophets, and ordinary people trying to get by while things decay around them. The refrain carries a tired fatalism, but the song itself still...
2012
Stop the Train
A warning song about runaway systems, where profit and speed have long since outrun wisdom. The image of the train is simple and effective: once the machinery is in motion, the question is whether anyone can...
2016
The Man is Back in Town
A plainspoken political song, with a gallery of characters each responding differently to a new authoritarian presence. Jethro Bodine, Jihadi Jack, Martha Sue, the corner guy — each verse inhabits a type...
Rough Working Demo
2011
Hey Jesus, What the Fuck?
A blunt protest song aimed at violence done in the name of faith. Its anger is public rather than private, turning outrage into a rough, unvarnished chorus that refuses consolation.
March 25, 2026
Evil is Out Walking
A song built on the traditional doubled-line verse structure. The verses accumulate: evil is talking, scheming, grasping, using a whippin' boy, fooling frightened minds. The refrain names the target without...
Rough Working Demo
Video
February 25, 2026
Ballad for the ICE Man
A folk-blues structured as a community's collective voice speaking directly to immigration enforcement. The verses escalate from neighborhood to schools, from refusal to warning. The final line repeats slowly,...
Rough Working Demo
September 30, 2025
Headin' North
A blues with a jam structure that opens up in performance. The lyric is about leaving a place that can no longer be saved — a town, a country, a moment — with the anger of someone who saw it coming and...
Rough Working Demo
May 3, 2025
Winter of Hate
A folk song, about the Boomer generation's transformation from Aquarian idealism to fearful authoritarianism. The verses describe the movement — tired of the establishment, now become the establishment,...
March 9, 2025
Liberty
A political song spoken in the voice of Liberty herself, protesting the way her image has been turned against the people she was meant to welcome. Its anger is sharpened by grief for the promise being betrayed.
