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There Is No Such Thing As The Masses

from Stand Looking Around You by .SueAnn Harkey

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There Is No Such Thing As The Masses
Sue Ann Harkey - Tenor Guitar, Mandolin, words and vocals

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There's No Such Thing As Then Masses

Will they blame you
Will they blame you for
For their life
Blame them for their lives

Or will we blame them
For our death
And distraction of this planet

There will be no change
There will be no BIG change
No revolution
No resurrection
There is only the slow steady pace
Of this planet in motion

If there were no wars
If there were no boundaries
Do you think that moralities would
Become like nations?

There's no such thing as the masses
The military is a class of its own
Death is for the living
"History is a recent invention"

I feel like I am in the midst of a very slow dawn
The shadows show themselves gradually, timidly

You can't use violence against a violent society
Because they are prepared for it
Because they are better at it
Because they are the ones who built the arsenal
I'm not fighting for their arsenal
One-by-one we unite as pacifists
Leaving no one for their armies
Leaving no one for their factories

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Only if they would destroy it themselves
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Only if they will destroy it themselves

I feel like I have just let go of a balloon
And am watching it be pulled up into the sky

The means is the end in pacifism
"Passivity does not mean non-action
It's abstaining from activity contrary to nature"

Governments are doing nothing more than
Practicing their own personal politics

July 1987

(Quotes from Paul Hoskin and Marilyn French, Beyond Power)

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from Stand Looking Around You, released June 5, 1987

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