For the Rest of Us In America today The voices we hear are the voices of fear Since these are the loudest and proudest Cowardly and loud about it Ignorant and proud about that too Striving to stem the flow of reality And though failing finding fame and fortune as they do Conniving to control the populace But fear is not what we were born nor came here for Some never were and some are not afraid anymore Weary and wary of whining defining us As some resist the universe refining us We tire of hearing the fearmongers crying For blood Ugly being as ugly does As far away from home the brave are dying For good Because they were told for good was what it was But then when they wondered it was just because And the fearmongers said so on the radio Somebody's children like mine maybe yours Playing with fire and getting burned Fighting old wars A generation on when more is less Sacrifice taken for granted by this Negation of what they were fighting for By goading the fearful into cowardice And all for nothing more nor less than selfishness Conniving to control the populace In an atmosphere of fear when noon is midnight The light lies low within the lamp today As angry men shout about how being wrong is right Who have forgotten all we ever learned Who neither come nor go who will not grow who just say no Only saying yes when they can take away A freedom or two or keep us out of their sight As they try to erase words like democracy But we do not believe them anymore I do not fear the fearful nor need you A nation evolves as the world revolves Our evolution is our revolution now Fear is not our here nor ignorance our how Though the fearmongers say no on the radio Toiling to turn the tide of history Our people know The remote controlled and bought and paid for anger of The sadly exploited but irrelevant Astonishes but is not us is not what we want And our children know that what we lack is love The time has come now for the rest of us to say If you are not coming get out of our way +Steven Curtis Lance Copyright MMX