hold your head...high?

And if it's bad
Don't let it get you down, you can take it
And if it hurts
Don't let them see you cry, you can take it

Hold your head up, hold your head up
Hold your head up, hold your head high

And if they stare
Just let them burn their eyes on you moving
And if they shout
Don't let them change a thing what you're doing

Hold your head up, hold your head up
Hold your head up, hold your head high Argent
Hold Your Head Up

In the state of Ohio it was decided by a few banks that hold the deeds to homes whose owners either can not afford to pay their monthly totals on their mortgages or those who are delinquent in paying their mortgages, to level to the ground of the afore mentioned homes. It was decided to tear down the homes by people who make at least a six figure income, have a steady paying job, who have no problem in paying their mortgage, health insurance, tuition for college that destroying the physical structure is a true interpretation of Capitalism. It cost too much money to keep the house unoccupied, it coast too much to try and find a compromise for the owner to pay a small sum so he or she would be one less homeless person, and it was priceless to get rid of the mess rather than try and fix it. God bless the bottom line and God Bless the United States of America!

The state of Florida has passed a law that insists if you are on the dole, need any assistance from the state because you are on the poverty line or below, need unemployment insurance, need any medical attention and can’t afford to pay for it yourself because you are broke, then you must also be a drug addict. Poverty, unemployment is your fault so assumes the Florida Governor and legislature and all of that must be due to the fact that you are a drug addict. So before you can receive any money from the taxpayers you must spend tax payer money and take a drug test. Those in need have and the findings are not what the Governor nor the Legislature hoped to find, poverty, and unemployment do not equate to drug use. Wonder if Jesus gave the lepers a drug test before he assisted them? God Bless Christian Conservative Values and God Bless the United States of America!

Currently 27 states have a law that states if an employee is found to be a homosexual he or she can be fired immediately from the workplace. 27 states have continued to state that homosexuality is not compatible to professionalism, it adds to poor work ethics, and it is so awful it must be kept in that closet invented by insecure and inadequate heterosexuals. You can openly be on your third marriage, an alcoholic, an adulterer, but if your Allen and you love Alex you are undermining the bottom-line and productivity and that is not going to be tolerated. 27 states have disregard for their citizenry, base their laws on some archaic and misshapen view of a biased and bigoted religion, and care less about the quality of life for anyone who wants to express who they are out loud. God Bless those small minded, self loathing assholes, and God Bless the United States of America.

And if it's bad
Don't let it get you down, you can take it
And if it hurts
Don't let them see you cry, you can take it

Hold your head up, hold your head up
Hold your head up, hold your head high Argent
Hold Your Head Up

If you are unemployed, poor, down on your luck, a member of the LGBT community, need health insurance, wanting to retire but can’t afford it, wanting to make a decent wage you are told by political leaders of this nation, spurred on by insecure CEO’s of most to many religious corporations, paid for by millionaires living in some glass palace upon some entombed hill that the curse of your life is only the fault of you not trying hard enough, being lazy, weak or Un-American. If you ask for a fair share, you are told that God will frown upon you, that you are a socialist, that the Constitution never guaranteed you that right, and that who the fuck do you think you are!

No matter how minor the articulation or how major the argument, those in power want to keep that power and they want anyone else to be diminished in stature and status. We have become a nation of shaming, blaming and scheming. We have become a nation that would rather point fingers away, find a scapegoat, deny any responsibility rather than find cause, fix it and then come to consensus. And it seems in the past two years many of us have permitted all that negativity to come to fruition.

For everyone else those still with a heart, a conscience and who truly believe in a just God, we must fight back hard, fight back now and fight back with the same force that has been used to keep many to most of us down.

Hold your head up, hold your head up
Hold your head up, hold your head high Argent
Hold Your Head Up