Paper Plebiscite

by Alice Night

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This is a playful recording of a song that should have been released two years ago when it was written, but better late than never!

Paper Plebiscite is perhaps relevant now as we're living in a time with many new policies being brought in that can change the shapes and freedoms of our lives.

This is a song that really invites us to get informed about the things we're passionate about. To engage in the subjects that effect our lives and the lives of others.

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P A P E R P L E B I S C I T E

Ordering apathy for four-dollars-fifty in the morning
I go about my little things, convince myself they’re important

I watch the news from far away, hope the war will end today
holding her hand, find her eyes ask, what’s a public plebiscite?

The battle ground enters our house, tells us our love is less than human
there are many ways to make a family, use your imagination bitches

Why is this sin to you? this love that lives in truth
I’m on my knees for her, she’s on her knees for me

I’ll take the mattress on the floor, to ease your indoctrination
I’ll get to know you over years, be patient with this discrimination

I’ve no desire to worship hell, but let’s compare our definitions
we’re holding rings in our pockets, waiting for your decision

Hold me closer - kiss my tongue
how can they say - this love is wrong
I’d vow to hold her a thousand times
don’t make us wait - for the next life

Don’t waste your money on a question, with only one real answer anyway
Don’t waste our time debating if there’s such thing as gay

Meanwhile children are given guns, taught to hate each other

Quick order me sweet apathy, red wine under moonlight
our future rests in passive hands and a posted paper plebiscite

Is it not plain to see, basic equality?
drink your apathy, as you spit on our love

ALICE NIGHT 2020

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released May 9, 2020
Thank-you life! Thank-you instrumentation! Thank-you synchronicities!
Photo by Julie Rowland in Iceland.

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