PHILADELPHIA rock group Sheer Mag has a message for America — played at a Bernie Sanders rally last fall. (As if Bernie is anti-establishment! Ha! Ha! Ha!) If Democrats don’t win in November, these college grads are gonna get tough!

Expect the Bayonet

From the sorrow we created
A fragile state of blood and whim
Made for rich men in their white skin
People bolder than I
Stood up to the lie
That equality has left! (my, my)
But it leaves no doubt in my mind
I’ve been reading the news and you’ll surely regret
If you don’t give us the ballot, expect the bayonet!
Well, expect the bayonet! (yeah, yeah)
Expect the bayonet!

Don’t say I didn’t warn ya
‘Cause for every man high upon the hog
There’s a dogwood forest buried in the fog
How naked is your eye?
Do you ever wonder why
You’re being asked to recompense
When it’s the last sign of your defence?
So you better resolve or you’ll surely regret
If you don’t give us the ballot, expect the bayonet!
Well, expect the bayonet! (Yeah, yeah, yeah)

My hunch is that these kids “in their white skin” have never known a day of hard manual labor and wouldn’t know what to do with a bayonet.

When they say “rich men in their white skin” who made a “fragile state of blood and whim” do they mean people like this?

They may be good musicians, but they strike me as singers not for the oppressed, but tools for the powerful. Subversive rock isn’t subversive.

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