From a contributor that wishes to remain anonymous.  I'd like to hear this recorded! 

Rap song? Rock song? Some of each? Country? What do you think?


First Group of
singers:

 

What proof of your ideas

Do you have, do you have?

What proof of your ideas

Do you have?

 

There's really nothing new here

That has not already failed

From Bolsheviks in

Russia

With millions killed or jailed

 

We have heard it all before

'Bout government come to aid

FDR and his programs

Put the founders in the shade

 

There was a document once

Meant to keep the people free

But some vote from their angers

Give up power thoughtlessly

 

Professors take tuition

While they twist our kids around

Undo all in-home training

Gather votes for bites of sound

 

What proof of your ideas

Do you have, do you have?

What proof of your ideas

Do you have?

 

What proof of your ideas

Do you have, do you have?

What proof of your ideas

Do you have?

 

Second group of
singers:

 

Some crises are too scary

To allow markets to be

Must meddle and control them

When it's an emergency

 

Only while this problem lasts

Says the big bureaucracy

We may be crunching freedoms

It's just expediency

 

With only good intentions

Do we push inward these walls

Don't blame our helpful cancer

If host organism falls

 

Our times are so different

From those simpletons of yore

These challenges are complex

So we must change up the score

 

It's the rich lucky winners

Of an unfair lottery

That run big corporations

And then thrive financially

 

Forget created equal

That's an old idea past

Equality of results

Gets your man elected fast

 

We will hike up your taxes

While we inflate currency

Take your hard-earned life savings

Build a Great Society

 

Don't worry, you can join us

As a special interest

Play victim, or just envy

Uncle Sam will do the rest

 

Freedom, you ask of freedom?

There shall be no more debate

Don't question our policy

Or we will just say you hate.

 

You are fairly out just now

And we are so squarely in

Don't you dare try and stop us

Cause we're legislating sin.

 

First Group of
Singers:

 

But I asked you a question

At the onset of this song

What proof of your ideas

Do you have besides the throng?

 

That is all you need, you say?

Do you really think that's right?

We have seen this all before

Get your first assumptions right.

 

What proof of your ideas

Do you have, do you have?

What proof of your ideas

Do you have?

 

Second Group of
Singers in background:

 

[We don't need proof

We have got the media]

 

First Group of
Singers:

 

What proof of your ideas

Do you have, do you have?

What proof of your ideas

Do you have?

 

Second Group of
Singers in background:

 

[We don't need proof

With intelligentsia]

 

First Group of
Singers:

 

What proof of your ideas

Do you have?

 

What proof of your ideas

Do you have?

Song fades with Hitler-ranting speech in background 

Crowd Cheers

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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11 responses to “What Proof of Your Ideas Do You Have? (Song Lyrics)”

  1. Ted Avatar
    Ted

    I find it unfortunate that there are fewer students of history, for without it we are doomed to repeat the past.
    Thank you Chris, Ted

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  2. TLA Avatar
    TLA

    Something Bob Dylan-esque? I can also imagine it done as a rap…or even a big stage production number (think “Westside Story”). Time in the agenda in SLC for this?

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  3. Frank Avatar
    Frank

    Those lyrics are really good and I searched on the web for nearly an hour and couldn’t find nothing out!
    If you find it and the music is as good as the message I would love to hear it!
    I also like to share an E-mail I just received! It’s sort of sad to think how much children are really paying attention.
    Ice Cream & The Election
    Excellent analogy!
    From a teacher in the Nashville area.
    Who worries about “the cow” when it is all about the “Ice Cream?
    The most eye-opening civics lesson I ever had was while teaching third grade this year.
    The presidential election was heating up and some of the children showed an interest.
    I decided we would have an election for a class president.
    We would choose our nominees. They would make a campaign speech and the class would vote.
    To simplify the process, candidates were nominated by other class members.
    We discussed what kinds of characteristics these students should have.
    We got many nominations and from those, Jamie and Olivia were picked to run for the top spot.
    The class had done a great job in their selections.
    Both candidates were good kids. I thought Jamie might have an advantage because he got lots of parental support. I had never seen Olivia’s mother.
    The day arrived when they were to make their speeches Jamie went first.
    He had specific ideas about how to make our class a better place. He ended by promising to do his very best.
    Everyone applauded. He sat down and Olivia came to the podium. Her speech was concise.
    She said, “If you will vote for me, I will give you ice cream.” She sat down.
    The class went wild. “Yes! Yes! We want ice cream.” She surely could say more. She did not have to.
    A discussion followed. How did she plan to pay for the ice cream? She wasn’t sure.
    Would her parents buy it or would the class pay for it? She didn’t know.
    The class really didn’t care. All they were thinking about was ice cream.
    Jamie was forgotten.
    Olivia won by a landslide.
    Every time Barack Obama opened his mouth he offered ice cream and fifty-two percent of the people reacted like nine year olds. They want ice cream.
    The other forty-eight percent of us know we’re going to have to feed the cow and clean up the mess.

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  4. Joshua Hendrickson Avatar
    Joshua Hendrickson

    Awesome song!
    With all that’s been happening with our currency no longer being backed by gold, printing money out of thin air and causing inflation, and this economic crisis we’re in … I’m starting to believe what a few people are saying. It looks like a planned destruction of the U.S. dollar, possibly to scare people into accepting a new currency and a single world government, or the “Amero” and the “North American Union” which would be the next step towards a single government (It’s already been accomplished with the European Union).

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  5. Darryl Avatar
    Darryl

    lol. Always have to have a Hitler reference in there. Godwin’s law comes through again.

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  6. Cathy Avatar
    Cathy

    Chris,
    The lyrics are right on!
    The second group in the lyrics goes on the premise it is better to have a theory that sounds good than something that has been proven to work. Why not? It worked for Darwin, for the New Dealers and for countless others I’m sure you could name for us.
    Their guiding principle is you have to have a theory that sounds better than the old tried, true and proven. If it sounds better it must therefore work better. This is because the proven is old and boring and theirs is new and exciting, and therefore must, by their defining perameters, work better.
    Whether or not it works is irrelevent. Whether or not it will be proven true by time is irrelevent. Because by the time it has been proven to be useless at least and detrimental at worst, they will be on to the next wonderful new theory, and this one will have been forgotten as the “old” one! That is, until it is time for them to make everything old new again, and bring back stuff that didn’t work before, to see if it doesn’t work now . . .

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  7. Darryl Avatar
    Darryl

    “It has worked for Darwin” I will have to disagree with that (as Dean knows :)).
    Anyways, you should have added the new bill that is being pushed through congress now (unless it changes).

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  8. benjamin_rush Avatar
    benjamin_rush

    It cannot be a country song because if I play it backward I don’t stop drinking, get my truck back and get my dog back.
    Seriously, it would go great with the music of the song “River” by Natalie Merchant.

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  9. Debbie Avatar
    Debbie

    Ideas do have consequences.

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  10. Edg Avatar
    Edg

    This poem needs two singers on stage. One wears the period uniform of a Continental Soldier, and the other wears a suit and tie, representing a person of Congress (perhaps from Mass.) By the way, have you seen the movie ‘Expelled’ by Ben Stein? Frightening.

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  11. Darryl Avatar
    Darryl

    hmmmm, the suit and tie makes me think of businessmen and not congressmen. Unless there would be something to differentiate what you are trying to represent.
    Side note: (completely different topic) what is so frightening about the movie Expelled? I have not had the chance to see it but from what I read a lot of the stories have only some truth in them.

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