Romanovsky & Phillips - Be Political, Not Polite Lyrics
Language is a barometer of hatred and prejudice. We must bevigilant in recognizing and discontinuing the use of words withwhich we oppress each other.)When you speak you often useSome racist word or sexist phraseThat makes me stop you in your tracksTo note the error of your waysAnd I know you find it boringBut it seems to me the only wayTo correct you, to object toThe hurtful things you sayRight the wrongs of human rightsThe risk you take can save a lifeSilence keeps us all in darknessWe can't change it overnightBut we can shed a little lightBe political, not politeI cannot be satisfiedKnowing just how much you careI want an ally with a voiceDefending me when I'm not there'Cause being actively supportiveIs the greatest gift that you could giveBy demanding understandingWe can change the world in which we liveWords can hurt, words can healMake us think, make us feelAnd they're every bit as deadlyAs a bullet tearing through the landFor if our words create the climateThen the blood is on our handsEvery time we hear a jokeThat takes a shot at someone elseIf we speak up for their rightsWe are speaking for ourselves'Cause we will never have true freedom'Til everyone of us is freeFrom the silence and the violenceThat's become our history
