I Pity the Country (Prod. Eddie Logix)

by Jo Rad Silver

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This is not my song.

And even though Willie Dunn, a First Nations Mi’kmaq singer and guitarist, penned this song in 1972, I don’t believe he’d have said it was solely his song either.

The straightforward lyrics of “I Pity the Country” speak directly to our complex civic reality: one which is not partisan or definite but fluid and human.

Amidst this chaotic political moment, we cannot be drawn "away from the roundness of the light."

We must strive towards actions of empathy for those we do not know. We who are granted power through privilege must acknowledge the many without. We should tolerate differences in opinion while never compromising dignity for all. Blind anger can never root out hate, only compassion will.

"Compassion
without direction,
without for me
and without for them”
-chögyam trungpa

lyrics

Lyrics written by Willie Dunn, 1972.

I pity the country
I pity the state
And the mind of a man
Who thrives on hate

Small are the lives
Of cheats and of liars
Of Bigoted newspress
Fascist town criers

Deception annoys me
Deception destroys me
The Bill of Rights throws me
Jails they all know me

Frustrated are churchmen
The saving-of-soul men
The Tinker the tailor
The Colonial governor

They pull and they paw me
They're seeking to draw me
Away from the roundness
Of the light

Silly civil servants
They thrive off my body
Their trip is with power
Back bacon and welfare

Police they arrest me
Materialists detest me
Pollution it chokes me
Movies they joke me

Politicians exploit me
City life it jades me
Hudson Bay fleece me
Hunting laws freak me

Government is bumbling
Revolution is rumbling
To be ruled in impunity
Is traditional continuity

I pity the country
I pity the state
And the mind of a man
Who thrives on hate

credits

released December 6, 2017
Performed by Jo Rad Silver
Engineered by Eddie Logix
Recored and Produced at Assemble Sound, Detroit. 2017.

Originally Written and Performed by Willie Dunn.

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