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My Role In The Arab Spring

from 14​/​40: Hobo Sapien by Grant Sharkey

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It's a song about overthrowing tyrants by not clicking like on facebook.

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I was ill with the gastric flu when I heard the news that Pharoh was going to fall
Sat on the bog I read the Facebook blogs, Egypt’s rallying call – GO SLAVES!
I hit LIKE to show my support for democracy’s plight – but sat there in my rancid air something inside me just didn’t feel right.
(It wasn’t the flu – that just made me poo)

Is this course of human evolution, to save me from wiping before I join a revolution?
Whilst people were dying, I thought I had done my bit – but all I did was like a fucking Facebook page an in reality I hadn’t done shit...
...except for the obvious one in the this story.

I make a pledge – I’m gonna think before I LIKE it
A new experience – I swear I’m going try it first!
Everyone’s LIKING, no-one’s loving it (which makes us collectively weak)

So if there’s a little joke about cats – LIKE IT
If they’re trying to kill off the sick and the poor – GET OFF YOUR ASS
If you see a nice recipe for a vegan cake – LIKE IT!
If the planet desperately needs some grown ups – GET OFF YOUR ASS!

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from 14​/​40: Hobo Sapien, released November 3, 2019

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Grant Sharkey UK

DIY, bass playing troubadour. On a mission to release an album every 6 months for 20 years.

RELEASE: 1st May and 5th November every year.

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