Little Tyrants

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How many more anyone will they detain before you hit the streets? Image a frame grab from this short video.

Little Tyrants

Little tyrants, in Los Angeles [change location as nec.]

Little tyrants in their riot gear

Little tyrants hide their faces

Little tyrants all the same.

They shoot dancers, they shoot singers,

They shoot journalists, they shoot immigrants

And they all are little tyrants and they all look just the same.

And the people, in the city,

We all came down to stop arrests

No more people put in boxes

We’re all human, just the same.

And there’s farmers and there's line cooks

And software UI engineers

And we’re all here standing side-by-side

And we fight fascists just the same.

We fight fascists, on the buses

We fight fascists in the restaurants

We fight fascists, we fight riot cops

We fight false arrest, we fight tyranny

We are joyful, we are hopeful

We sing together, in a single voice

To the fascists, wearing face masks:

You’re all cowards, just the same.

And they will back down, we will win this

We know they backed down at Berlin’s Wall

And they’ll back down in Los Angeles

Because they’re cowards, all the same

We are brown folks, we are cripples

We are queer folks, we are nerdy types

And we’ll beat those fucking fascists

Bullies and cowards, all the same.

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This song is an obvious riff on the excellent, “Little Boxes” by Malvina Reynolds, made available to the public along with other Malvina Reynolds songs by her daughter Nancy Schimmel.

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