Beautiful classic folk song ballad that is so gorgeously delivered with your gentle guitar sound and soulful heartfelt vocals. I like how you provoke thought without being too snarky. The extremes in any situation do not build the community or elevate the collaborations and partnerships that help us come together. Well done!

Bravo! This is why we still need folk heroes.

Yes! Sometimes you just have to snark. Weirdly the chorus structure reminds of Taylor Swift songwriting moves (in a good way)(no, I'm not actually a Swiftie). I like the MKL reference at the beginning.

Some great snarky folk story telling. Your hashtags are cracking me up!

This song is Too Woke, but at least I can scrape its contents for my AI LLM. (For real though, we need you playing this at picket lines and union halls!)

I just adore the classic folk style of this song - your beautiful just the right amount guitar, and those absolutely gorgeous, emotive vocals singing the incredibly moving melody and lyrics. These are very challenging times, and we can not escape our history and our reality. It is hard to hold onto hope right now, but hearing something this beautiful and moving gives me a little hope. Thank you!

a serious take on a subject phil ochs satirized in his "love me im a liberal." i love your singing and guitar playing. you sound the way the folksingers i grew up on sounded. and you possess a similar mental clarity.

Omg I love you Phil ❤️ This song is the catharsis I needed so bad. I literally both laughed and cried while listening to this, because it speaks the feelings of my heart.

(Just earlier today I was reading the wonderful classic book "Mutual Aid: A Factor of Evolution" by Kropotkin, and then this fantastic song comes along. Serendipity.)

Amen. I reckon Woody would agree (after a big long sigh).

I haven't listened because I'm backstage on a gig right now but I'm reading the lyrics and I'm fired up. Hell yeah comrade. Super profundo. Excellent work

Honestly… The lyrics confuse me, but I’ve always known you to be such a deeply loving man, and I love your chords and Melody and voice.

Holy cow - this is my new favorite of FAWM so far. You've literally brought tears to my eyes... It's this sublime angry/relaxed/soothing/grieving/cathartic bit of poetry with the perfect sparing guitar and haunting vocal delivery. You've made an overtly political song that avoids the bombast of so many protest pieces. It comes across as this quietly-resolved self dialog, and I'm positively moved. Can't pick a favorite line; too many.

Love it. Soulful and articulate. And I agree.

Amen to that. Can’t help but listen

Really nice musical write - soulfully played and sung with lots of breathing space that pushes you into the words. Great chord choices in the ending which was the cherry on this cake for me.

You've perfectly articulated the sort of despair running through a lot of folks minds. Makes me wish we had an ACTUAL liberal party in the U.S.

Hell yes.

Great work, you had my attention the entire way through.

Oof, this does not pull punches. Great rhymes on this, beautifully put together, venomous, and sharp. Excellent work and great vocals to boot!

it's wild to see something i have been so viscerally feeling expressed so succinctly, eloquently, and with a barely-restrained heartbroken quality that is utterly devastating.

so many clever rhymes here, including the internal ones. you really have to hear it sung, not just read the lyrics, to get everything, and i love that.

what a song. well done, and thank you, comrade. solidarity forever 🖤❤️

It doesn't come out like snark, it comes out like grief. Beautiful stuff, beautifully delivered.

Dig it! I like the change on "liberals". The emerald mine line was a nice touch and your voice sound raw and emotional. It's good to have a totally Acoustic Song for these times, as the electricity is probably going to be cut off.

“Love thy neighbor shouldn’t be hard to explain” absolutely killed. Fantastic songwriting and performance. Simple excellent.

This must be the most tender, fragile and vulnerable political battle song I've ever listened to. 😀 It feels good to hear many of my own views stated so clearly by someone else. Left vs. Right these days seems to me more and more like one big psychological operation to obscure the obvious fact that the real struggle is Up versus Down. I say that as an old-school lefty who has been accused of holding "right-wing views" or being "rechtsoffen" more than once especially in the last few years. Anyway, I'll stop ranting. Unfortunately, there is no raised fist emoji.

I took this as more of a call to action than a condemnation. The hook phrase is certainly provocative but that's what folk music is for.

Damn. You really went there, and I'm so damn proud to hear every word of it. Your voice is beautiful. Can't believe these lines you've got, some are plucked from my stream of conscious I swear! I cannot wait to share your song with my partner, this is something we will both enjoy listening to more than once. "The World is burning and there's ICE at the door" ...ooof. Great line. Thanks so much for this song. I am an instant fan @philnorman