#title Song for the Earth Liberation Front
#author David Rovics
#SORTauthors David Rovics;
#date 2003
#source [[https://www.fifthestate.org/archive/362-fall-2003/song-for-the-earth-liberation-front]]
#lang en
#pubdate 2017-11-19
#notes Fifth Estate #362, Fall, 2003


<quote>
Civil disobedience
</quote>

<quote>
Has many permutations
</quote>

<quote>
You can block the streets in front of
</quote>

<quote>
The United Nations
</quote>

<quote>
You can lay down on the tracks
</quote>

<quote>
Keep the nuke trains out of town
</quote>

<quote>
Or you can pour gas on the condo
</quote>

<quote>
And you can burn it down
</quote>

..

<quote>
Chorus:
</quote>

<quote>
So here’s a toast to the night
</quote>

<quote>
Three cheers and a grunt
</quote>

<quote>
To the Earth Liberation Front
</quote>

<quote>
The Earth Liberation Front
</quote>

<quote>
..
</quote>

<quote>
You can go to Senate hearings
</quote>

<quote>
Wait til they call your name
</quote>

<quote>
My hat is off to anyone
</quote>

<quote>
With the will to play that game
</quote>

<quote>
But if you want to know the truth
</quote>

<quote>
What warms my aching heart
</quote>

<quote>
Is to see the masked avengers
</quote>

<quote>
Come to tear the road apart
</quote>

<quote>
(Repeat Chorus)
</quote>

<quote>
There are so many things of beauty
</quote>

<quote>
In this world to see
</quote>

<quote>
A wild, running river
</quote>

<quote>
Or an old-growth redwood tree.
</quote>

<quote>
But in such an ugly situation
</quote>

<quote>
So sinister and dire
</quote>

<quote>
There’s nothing quite so lovely
</quote>

<quote>
As a Wal-Mart on fire
</quote>

<quote>
(Repeat Chorus)
</quote>

<quote>
They’ll tell you that it’s violent
</quote>

<quote>
To destroy a logging truck
</quote>

<quote>
These are the very people
</quote>

<quote>
Who’d kill the planet for a buck
</quote>

<quote>
Talk to the governor
</quote>

<quote>
Be reasonable, they say
</quote>

<quote>
Maybe we can talk tomorrow
</quote>

<quote>
But we can pull the crops today
</quote>

<quote>
(Repeat Chorus)
</quote>