The election blues rap
Yo! Listen up y’all. It’s a rap.
You need to get in the groove,
if you’re gonna dig it and make us move!
Stop pressing the pause, and hitting on snooze,
else before long there’ll be nothing to lose
C’mon look around you and you’ll see the clues
Oh sister, I got those election blues
There ain’t no rewind, that’s all a big fiction
Climate change and transition are part of our diction
We’ve created this mess by our own addiction
Hope for the future needs political conviction
Politicians wanna take control of our nation
But their rhetoric just fills me with trepidation
Their language is filled with hollow sophistication
Their old economic system, it’s a real abomination
and it ain’t gonna help with no transfiguration
We live in fear at the rising cost of food
Wars are being fought at the end of cheap crude
And all this time the poor are just getting screwed,
C’mon baby, I’m just not in the mood.
We keep on building roads to nowhere
But the price of oil can’t be protected by laissez faire
what we need are transport solutions that get us there
Politicans on your soap boxes beware – change is in the air
How long do we worship the gods of free trade
and stuff our economy, when we could buy Kiwi made?
This ain’t the way the game is meant to be played
To our politicians I say – we’ve been betrayed
And then they gave us a China FTA
so underpriced imports look here to stay
on our shelves, markets flooded – we seem so passe
and human rights they seem to decay
But c’mon people let’s not be mistaken
Wars have been fought, this land has been taken
It’s filled with real poverty and alienation
We need a new way, celebrate the new nation!
Are the politicians even lookin’
Or do they line up just to put the boot in
Holding policy secrets, you wonder what’s cooking
This isn’t something that we should be brooking
Quite soon election has its day
Do we vote for people with stuff right and just to say?
Or will we let our minds get carried away
By the greed inside that holds such sway?
The new guy on the block John Key
Can’t continue to speak with such impunity
His contradictions are for all to see
Ain’t no way they’re gonna set the poor free
Mr Key enjoys five minutes of fame
With a billion says he’ll buy himself a plane
So I guess that means we won’t see him again
The domination of greed: not in our name
They say in politics that blue’s the new cool
But believing that just makes you a fool
Helen Clark had her day? or is she a jewel?
Well I ain’t following their political school
Th’ government’s done some political cavorting
Its produced beneficial social reporting
They know violence and poverty both need thwarting
But I can’t support everythin’ to which they’ve been resorting
Hey Michael Cullen did us a favour
His prudence gave us kiwisaver
But changes in tax law won’t be something to savour
Incentives to manufacture offshore ain’t good behaviour
These politicians are just out to please us
Their politics aren’t those of Jesus
Ain’t no cross or communion, just wine and cheeses
Power’s not given up, it’s what they seizes
Perhaps it’s time for us to put on the squeezes
Winston Peters’ undeclared donation
Seems to have caused a consternation
His suits lost its shine, ain’t no celebration
He opens his mouth, it’s the voice of desperation
So you might ask, what’s my plan?
Yo, like Jesus I support the poor man
And the way the Greens have been performin’
Perhaps we should vote for Russel Norman
But then again, think of where you stand
The Maori Party represent the people of the land
The voice of the marginalized they want to expand
Kia kaha, e hoa – change is at hand!
This land is yours, this land is mine
But I think we’re running out of time
We’re heading to where the sun don’t shine
Brother, sister these election blues are mine
This ain’t about me, or you, but us all
We walk in the light, we live in the fall
This domination of power ain’t no passing squall
Open your eyes – we’ve been subdued y’all!
We need a politic based on morality
Not unfettered market system brutality
We need an ethic that promotes locality
Where justice and peace are the modality
An expression of deepening spirituality
It’s time for the church to get into action
Perhaps we are a political faction
Seeking to bring justice and divine satisfaction
To all who are least, without no distraction
Following Jesus with a kind of gravitational attraction!
Anthony Dancer
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