Post by newslang on Oct 12, 2009 19:05:44 GMT
(sorry whole title wouldn't fit)
Tribute and Love for the National Equality March
x to all those who marched and stood at the national equality march yesterday in DC x
You are true warriors of love and of the heart. Love is a force that sees no gender or sexuality. I believe you are right for being angry that Obama is putting his "land of the free" country to shame by not addressing the promises he made during his voting campaign. I think it is saddening that in the USA you have no form of "hate crime" laws. These laws, that filter down into the schools of your country through government education, forward thinking pro active support for those of us who still would love to marry and exist in peace be given the respect any decent human being deserves on this planet. I am not a citizen of america but I have an artist visa and I love my audience so very very much within every state I have visited and I have seen such an amazingly diverse spectrum of human beings being together in song at my concerts, yes, I guess I get to live in a form of utopia when I am onstage, but it shows that if you choose the right words and harmony you can make anything happen or change in this world. Obama should not be letting you down. He exchanged your vote for a promise and he should stick to it. I hope he will. It will be so sad to see equal rights time travel back to where the struggles started at stonewall or with the suffragettes, you may think i'm being dramatic, which yes, I often am, but im sat here cross legged infront of my laptop with my heart beating wishing i was there yesterday..
I have read so many letters over my years of touring america, when i get handed letters outside after a show from boys, girls, men and women across America telling me about how hard it is for them at school, or their work place that they have no support network, be it parental, governmental or often the right protection from police when needed. that music is their escape and inspiration. I would love that one day a gay couple kissing on any street corner only would get a shout of "get a room" not "it was adam and eve not adam and steve" or a teenage girl in a texas high school decided she wanted one day to be a man and could be supported in her journey to find herself not have her spirit and soul crushed by out of date laws and education systems or a boy can take his boy crush to the prom and no one like they did to me and this was just in maths class, stab the boy with a pair of compasses. I say this now just to raise awareness. This is how bad homo-phobia is in the school system. Its time to up-date the laws of humanity. We are constantly evolving creatures. Ok. Well I will leave it at that... but I dedicate these words I wrote now to all those who fight the good fight, protect their freedom and equality on this earth and help those around you who don't have theirs find it. I have changed the lyrics as I go on tour. It mutated into an anti Proposition 8 anthem for me halfway through the american tour this year.
I think it still very much is
Peace x Patrick
BATTLE
Battle the patriarch
Battle for equal rights
Battle battle battle
Battle back your liberty
Battle the long night
Battle battle battle
It’s your time
To join the tribe
Yes it’s time
For some victory
Your time
If you’re sick
Of being a victim
Of their ignorance
Then
Battle the conservative
Battle for your
Battle battle battle battle
Battle the homophobe
But battle without war
Come on!
battle
Battle, battle, battle
Battle the misogynist
Battle for your
Victory
Since I was 12
It’s been me
vs the world
I got so sick
Of being told
Our identities
Were in minority
But now we’ve
Got tribe
And we’ve got
Some battle
And yes it’s time
Don’t you know it’s time
To g-g-g-g-g-get some victory
This is our battle
x
x to all those who marched and stood at the national equality march yesterday in DC x
You are true warriors of love and of the heart. Love is a force that sees no gender or sexuality. I believe you are right for being angry that Obama is putting his "land of the free" country to shame by not addressing the promises he made during his voting campaign. I think it is saddening that in the USA you have no form of "hate crime" laws. These laws, that filter down into the schools of your country through government education, forward thinking pro active support for those of us who still would love to marry and exist in peace be given the respect any decent human being deserves on this planet. I am not a citizen of america but I have an artist visa and I love my audience so very very much within every state I have visited and I have seen such an amazingly diverse spectrum of human beings being together in song at my concerts, yes, I guess I get to live in a form of utopia when I am onstage, but it shows that if you choose the right words and harmony you can make anything happen or change in this world. Obama should not be letting you down. He exchanged your vote for a promise and he should stick to it. I hope he will. It will be so sad to see equal rights time travel back to where the struggles started at stonewall or with the suffragettes, you may think i'm being dramatic, which yes, I often am, but im sat here cross legged infront of my laptop with my heart beating wishing i was there yesterday..
I have read so many letters over my years of touring america, when i get handed letters outside after a show from boys, girls, men and women across America telling me about how hard it is for them at school, or their work place that they have no support network, be it parental, governmental or often the right protection from police when needed. that music is their escape and inspiration. I would love that one day a gay couple kissing on any street corner only would get a shout of "get a room" not "it was adam and eve not adam and steve" or a teenage girl in a texas high school decided she wanted one day to be a man and could be supported in her journey to find herself not have her spirit and soul crushed by out of date laws and education systems or a boy can take his boy crush to the prom and no one like they did to me and this was just in maths class, stab the boy with a pair of compasses. I say this now just to raise awareness. This is how bad homo-phobia is in the school system. Its time to up-date the laws of humanity. We are constantly evolving creatures. Ok. Well I will leave it at that... but I dedicate these words I wrote now to all those who fight the good fight, protect their freedom and equality on this earth and help those around you who don't have theirs find it. I have changed the lyrics as I go on tour. It mutated into an anti Proposition 8 anthem for me halfway through the american tour this year.
I think it still very much is
Peace x Patrick
BATTLE
Battle the patriarch
Battle for equal rights
Battle battle battle
Battle back your liberty
Battle the long night
Battle battle battle
It’s your time
To join the tribe
Yes it’s time
For some victory
Your time
If you’re sick
Of being a victim
Of their ignorance
Then
Battle the conservative
Battle for your
Battle battle battle battle
Battle the homophobe
But battle without war
Come on!
battle
Battle, battle, battle
Battle the misogynist
Battle for your
Victory
Since I was 12
It’s been me
vs the world
I got so sick
Of being told
Our identities
Were in minority
But now we’ve
Got tribe
And we’ve got
Some battle
And yes it’s time
Don’t you know it’s time
To g-g-g-g-g-get some victory
This is our battle
x