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Joni Mitchell
Homophobia- Big Business!
Evangelicals & Republicans…Isn’t It Time to Give It a Rest? This is a hardsell given how profitable hate has been historically. Homophobia has been the biggest fundraising tool for the radical right since the fear of miscegenation and the fight against racial integration. Over $400 million tax free and homophobia driven dollars have been raised this year alone by the top ten Christian groups according to some recent research on the Internet. When will the hypocrisy end? As Joni Mitchell says in Dog Eat Dog –
Dog Eat Dog
It’s dog eat dog
I’m just waking up
The dove is in the dungeon
And the white washed hawks
pedal hate and call it love
Dog Eat Dog
Holy hope in the hands of
Snakebite evangelists and racketeers
And big wig financiers
According to fundamentalists, homosexuals are the cause of hurricanes, earthquakes, 9/11 and other examples of God’s Wrath. It’s just another case of Lilywhite Lies.
Lilywhite Lies
Hey yo yo, How ya go?
I hear you don’t like me ‘cause I’m a homo
Heard rumours ‘round you don’t wish me well
Say I’m a devil child and goin’ to hell
You preach to crowds I’m bad and wild
Spread disease and rape your child
Say if I don’t repent it’s God’s punishment
A case of AIDS I’ll get
I say, “You wanna bet?”
You hate me, berate me
But you forget God did create me
You say it’s true, you hands’ll heal
But let me tell you preacher
You ain’t the real deal
So listen minister, hear my story reverend
Until you love me you ain’t goin’ to heaven
Ho ho
CHORUS: It’s just another case of lilywhite lies, Lilywhite holy white
Hey yo yo, what you know?
Havin’ some trouble just sayin’ no?
You read the papers? Hear what they say?
“You’ll only catch AIDS if you’re black or you’re gay.”
So don’t worry America, you’ll live a long life
Keep your eyes shut to the pain and the strife
There are millions out there that’ll die in a year
But don’t get excited, Don’t shed a tear
Just keep livin’ your lives like it doesn’t exist
‘Til it hits you, then you’ll be pissed
Maybe too late just to pick up and run
With your daughter, your wife, your husband or son
‘Cause it’s over in Europe, it’s big in Japan
Africa’s got it and even Iran
So come on home, open your eyes,
Everyone knows a young person who dies
CHORUS: It’s just another case of lilywhite lies, Lilywhite holy white
Now if everyone you know is either scared to death or dyin’
It’s time to ACT UP, ‘cause they all killin’ you with lyin’
Like they care about your lover, they wanna find a cure
But all the money’s spent on weapons to fight a secret war
They love to watch the numbers mount
‘Cause people of color and faggots and women don’t count
When they round us up and jail us, it won’t be new news
Remember fifty years ago, Hitler did it to the Jews
So take it to the streets and write the President a letter
Denying there’s a crisis won’t make anyone better
HELP ME!
CHORUS: It’s just another case of lilywhite lies, Lilywhite holy white
They love to watch the numbers mount
Don’t wanna be a number
Don’t wanna be what they want me to be
Another number
Frank H. Jump ©1987 RoughGift Productions/BMI
