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Peace Don't Stand A Chance

from Let It Goddam Be by The Van Allen Belt

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Perfect “wall of sound” orchestration. Cinematic.
This song hits with a celebratory melancholy. Nostalgic messaging for the future from the past. A warning shot across the bow that seemed to anticipate our pandemic but decides to walk into the apocalypse wide-eyed like it is a party anyway. Liberation in that attitude.

lyrics

Peace don’t stand a chance
Take this warning in advance
Peace don’t stand a chance

A new epidemic of pride
This time we must choose a side
Do you want to improve on the past?
Are you in this century or the last?
Peace don’t stand a chance

When hated is your stance
Peace don’t stand a chance
When the tiki torches are lit and they’re spouting off ignorant shit
Then they’re mowing us down with their cars
Sorry it just ain’t in the fucking stars
Peace don’t stand a chance

A towering inferno of pants
Peace don’t stand a chance
With media making us numb
And the electorate has grown so dumb
And the emperor is scum
And you’re still living in a slum
Peace don’t stand a chance

Someone let all the worms out
And everyone learned how to shout
And what were we shouting about
Have we gone crazy?

We’ll meet again,
Don’t know where I don’t know when
And now for your moment of zen
counting in 10, 9, 8, whoops!

Peace don’t stand a chance

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from Let It Goddam Be, released December 23, 2019

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