Michael Callen
Tops and Bottoms Music (BMI)
Dedicated to Richard Berkowitz and Larry Kramer, two frontline fighters
This is no time for doubting
to stop and wonder why
This is a time for shouting:
I don’t believe the lies!
One way or another
no one will be spared
I call out to my brothers
Doesn’t anybody care?
It’s like living in wartime
Just like living in wartime
We are living in wartime
It will not go away
More die everyday
This is war! This is war!
Conspiracy of silence
The enemy within
Complacency and arrogance
make us think we cannot win
make us think that the battle has been won
But the thunder in the distance
says it’s only just begun
They try to break our spirits
try to keep us in our place
They do it to the women
and the poor of every race
We face a common enemy:
bigotry and greed
But if we fight together
we can find the strength we need
we can find the strength we need
It’s like living in wartime
Just like living in wartime
We are living in wartime
Performed by LOWLIFE
Produced by Anne Bowen
Bass, vocals: Pam “Rabbit” Brandt
Guitar, vocals: Janet Cleary
Keyboards, vocals: Michael Callen
Drums, vocals: Richard Dworkin