MOVE OVER

MOVE OVER

Words and music by
John Kay and Gabriel Mekler

Things look bad from over here
Too much confusion and no solution
Everyone here knows your fear
You're out of touch and you try too much

Yesterday's glory won't help us today
You wanna retire?
Get out of the way

The country needs a father
Not an uncle or big brother
Someone to keep the peace at home
If we can't get together
Look out for stormy weather
Don't make me pay for your mistakes
I have to pay my own

Yesterday's glory won't help us today
You wanna retire?
Get out of the way

I ain't got much time
The young ones close behind
I can't wait in line

If we can not wake you
Then we'll have to shake you
Though some say you'll only understand a gun
Got to prove them wrong
Or you will lose the battle
Don't you know we'll start a war
Which will be won by none

Yesterday's glory won't help us today
You wanna retire?
Get out of the way

I ain't got much time
The young ones close behind
I can't wait in line


Move over

Come on, Move Over

I listened to this song on the bus this morning, written in 1970 when I was 4 years old and had no clue about our political process. I've heard it many times since and never really considered the words that closely, more into the melody instead. Considering current events, the struggle to save our economy and associated "way of life" I find it applies just as well today as I listened closer, paying attention to the meaning.

Either come up with solutions and join the discussion instead of disrupting it, or MOVE OVER so the rest of us can repair the damage done by the previous administration and it's complicit congress, who have tried to turn my country into a corporation.

"Don't make me pay for your mistakes I have to pay my own"