Nick Soma - We Should
featuring Cookie Blue on scissors, clip machine, frying pan, hairdryer, tea cup and box grater

This song is from the point of view of a person with a mental illness, something along the lines of schizophrenia. His thoughts, disjointed at first, build towards a more concrete idea, before he sinks into resignation in the end.

We should hover slightly above ground
We should walk a banana through town *
Make no concession to those putting us down
We should paint the police station brown

We should set this piñata on fire
We should cut through the telephone wire
No longer scared, now we're thirteen steps higher
We should never ever deny our desire

We should ignore those who label us strange
We should discard the idea we must change
Why do we care if they say we're deranged
We'll be the ones who will blow up the grange

We should unite so they can't do us harm
We should stand strong til they all bought the farm
Fight for our rights so that we can bear arms
And if we can't, we will kill with our charms

We should reinstate, to make this really clear,
We should give credit to voices we hear
In the back of our heads, so meekly they hide
We should prefer those to the voices outside

We should become the majority, so
That we can make true all in theory we know
We should make our community grow
We should be stealing their sad little show

They should be worried if they think they are
Righteous and normal, the day is not far
We should call crazy those who now are not
They'll be a few only, but we'll be a lot

We should be able to do all of this
We really should, honey, give me a kiss
Instead of relying on doctors and meds
And being confined to hospital beds

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Yes, this is a stupid line. It was the first line that came to me, and here's the back story: I remember a friend I once had in school told me that if you were scared all the time of what others might think about you, then you had to fight the fear... by walking a banana through town, on a leash, like a dog. She actually really wanted me to do that with her. We never did, but thank you C. for the inspiration.*