The more we learn that love and orientations of all kinds have always been with humanity, the kinder we'll be to each other. Cruelty to one is cruelty to all.
lyrics
People exist on a spectrum of love
Despite what you think, always has, always was
A feature out in nature for beings that breed
No easy separation or reading into genes
Roles can swap and all rules are dropped
Got to be adaptable, a one-stop shop
Add to that the human ocean of emotion
There was never any chance to hold us back
Without Alan Turing couldn't speak through a device
Saved so many lives, so why'd he pay the price?
Centuries of studies for disease made a bed for the ideas of Sara J. Baker
Then there's Bowie's non-binary finery
In our time the effect is all around to see
Defend acceptance gaining pace
Embrace the punk aesthetic of Laura Jane Grace
Got your foam party and I got mine
So hot over those morals that you'll go blind
Fighting for your freedom? See we're on the same side
We keep dancing, swapping glances, around and around…
You got your bubble and I got mine
And that's the trouble, can't see the white of your eyes
Got your foam party and I got mine
These walls are thin, popped with a pin
Just let me live
What we are is not a condition, and not conditional on your internal questions
In our teens or fourties, story is the same
Dead centre in your sight, but never in the frame
Barbara Jordan served her people without being defined
Homeless or alone or pushed to resign
And that's a strength we all could use, just leave the fear behind, stop the abuse
Did you make a fake account to bully me online?
Your own opinion, or media-defined?
Medical or lexical, keep us at the gate
Like a need to use the bathroom, this doesn't go away
Ever look in a mirror and know you're not yourself
Say it's protection, keeping us in hell
Screen depiction can be shameful and unkind
Upshot we're beaten in the street, left behind
Got your foam party and I got mine
So hot over those morals that you'll go blind
Fighting for your freedom? See we're on the same side
We keep dancing, swapping glances, around and around…
You got your bubble and I got mine
And that's the trouble, can't see the white of your eyes
Got your foam party and I got mine
These walls are thin, popped with a pin
Just let me live
Got your foam party and I got mine
So hot over those morals that you'll go blind
Fighting for your freedom? See we're on the same side
We keep dancing, swapping glances, around and around…
You got your bubble and I got mine
And that's the trouble, can't see the white of your eyes
Got your foam party and I got mine
These walls are thin, popped with a pin
Just let me live
Medieval torture, conversion therapy
Psychopathy to forcibly do 'what's best for me'
Marsha P. Johnson drugged and hounded just for standing up
The march of technology hasn't advanced us much…
Has it?
So much wasted time and all of this heartache
This is how we dance, don't change your step or gate
Well I know you don't want to change, no having to adjust
Time moves on regardless, evolution is a must
This level of oppression is certainly an impressive feat
But an average day at work for our very own Fleet Street
We're in your music and TV, all over your social feed
Find out for yourself, come and have a cup of tea with me
Thought you had our back, but then you Stonewalled
Cruelty to one is cruelty to all
Thought you had our back, but then you Stonewalled
Rolled back the law
Cruelty to one is cruelty to all
Thought you had our back, but then you Stonewalled
Cruelty to one is cruelty to all
Thought you had our back, but then you Stonewalled
Rolled back the law
Cruelty to one is cruelty to all
Got your foam party and I got mine
So hot over those morals that you'll go blind
Fighting for your freedom? See we're on the same side
We keep dancing, swapping glances, around and around…
You got your bubble and I got mine
And that's the trouble, can't see the white of your eyes
Got your foam party and I got mine
These walls are thin, popped with a pin
Just let me live
Got your foam party and I got mine
So hot over those morals that you'll go blind
Fighting for your freedom? See we're on the same side
We keep dancing, swapping glances, around and around…
You got your bubble and I got mine
And that's the trouble, can't see the white of your eyes
Got your foam party and I got mine
These walls are thin, popped with a pin
Just let me live
credits
released November 26, 2021
Music and visuals by Brett Uren.
Lyrics by Brett Uren with help from LGBTQ friends all over the globe.
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