Such A Shame

Jeff Gordon

August 6 - Well this is a tome and rather wordy compared to most of my lyrics. I do so much in verse/chorus form, wanted to try something different, so this is in AABA form. Had the musical idea for the A section and then as I’ve had the current state and future of our country on my mind as many of us do, this lyric just developed on its own. It’s an imagined future from someone in the resistance that I’m pretty sure can’t happen - though I sometimes wonder what the hell we’re doing.

VERSE:
It’s almost 2021
Some crazies marchin’ with a gun
They think they have the right
To terrorize
They think a war has just begun
The courts have spoken
A changing of the guard
Misinformation reigns supreme
A real danger
The people must prevail
I wonder is this all a dream
It’s Such a Shame (such a cryin’ shame, such a cryin’ shame)
Such a Shame (such a cryin’ shame, we must rise from the darkness)

VERSE:
Freedom slowly melts away
I’ve wondered whether I should stay
But with all the borders closed
Nowhere to go
Nothing left to do but pray
America where are you
Somehow you’ve disappeared
Past the point of no return
There is no sunshine
Out there on the horizon
The starkest lesson we must learn
It’s Such a Shame (such a cryin’ shame, such a cryin’ shame)
Such a Shame (such a cryin’ shame, we must rise from the darkness)

BRIDGE:
Democracy has fallen by the wayside
Blindness of power battered through
Don’t know the moment when truth died
Or the timing of the total coup

VERSE:
Inauguration day is here
A nation on its knees in fear
The installation’s done
He’s taken charge
There aren’t too many there to cheer
The streets of Washington
Have been shut down
Authoritarian control
Those who oppose him
Have had to gone to ground
The lies have taken their toll
It’s Such a Shame (such a cryin’ shame, such a cryin’ shame)
Such a Shame (such a cryin’ shame, we must rise from the darkness)