CLICK/LISTEN: Bells Gonna Ring

There’s something massive

And circular

And bigger than me

Bearing and tearing through March

Into spring

Something loping

A flock

A need

A despair

And no lover or mother or father or brother can share

In the change

That is coming

Or the things it will spawn

It is mine for the hunting

It is mine to take on

No telling

What kind of mischief

Or electric sting

But the needle is dropping

And the bells gonna ring

Only I can keep running

Get lost in the cloud

Might never come out

If I come out a princess

If I come out a serpent

Well that’s what we’ll work with

And its possible

I’m leaving the wrong things behind

But my belly’s hot fury is burning

In its own crazy light

Copyright 2010 All Rights Reserved
Words and Music by Camille Bright-Smith
Smokin’ Piano performed by David Wohl

Lilly was workin’ hard
Hitting the plant floor every day
She learned every single job
It was Goodyear all the way
Everyone in Gadsden Alabama
Knew her very well
The lady Manager
The sweetest gal
The hardest worker

Then one day
She got a letter from a stranger
Exposing that her pay
Was waaaaaay less than what the guys were makin’
Means Lilly spent
Round 20 years
Getting less
Doing the same
Wasn’t there a law about that
Back in the day?

And Miss Lilly says
Might don’t make right
Whats good is good
I’m gonna fight, I’m gonna fight
And you can thank her
For your right to equal pay
Miss Lilly Ledbetter
Your Miss American Way!

Shake downs for sex
Back room cigarettes
Lilly never wanted
Any part of this
They backed the wrong gal
Up against a wall
And it took an act of Congress
But the wall came tumblin’ down

Hey Lilly Hey
Ginsberg had her back
Lilly had her faith
Y’all better get right with that
And pay attention
Don’t take one penny less
Might need to mention
Lilly Ledbetter Act

And Miss Lilly says
Might don’t make right
Whats good is good
I’m gonna fight, I’m gonna fight
And you can thank her
For your right to equal pay
Miss Lilly Ledbetter
Your Miss American Way!

Do you need more information on Pay Equity?

http://www.9to5.org/
Change the Workplace, Change the World

Hey friends, we may get a visit from Miss Lilly Ledbetter.  Please, write her a message and thank her for fighting the fight for all of us that want pay equity!

SONOS – I Want You Back

(click the “x” right away to turn off that ad when it comes up…sorry!)

I dedicate this post to Barak Obama.  I Want You Back.  Won’t you please let me back in your heart?  I am a white, mother of twins, bilingual, activist, foodie, urban gardener, boycotter of Wal-Mart, feminist, crazy ass rock and roll, fun, open minded leftie, polyamorous, bisexual, transgender, gay, lesbo, facebook using, twitter freakin’, lonely, asexual, hungry, curvy, chocolaty, Black, Mexican, German, Cuban, Zapatistan, marajuana legalizin’, anti-war, pro-troops, over-it, OBAMA VOTER!!!!  Get it together man.

So what do you think?  First, how cool is this a’capella minor key version of “I Want You Back”?  Second, is there, at this point, anything that Obama can do to recover our faith?  I am going to keep my opinions to myself for a while….

I can count
On the tiny hands and feet I’ve carried
The sheer amount
Of fear and dread and energy
That I’ve put out
Please don’t mistake this
As complaining
But it’s astounding
How brutal love can be

Here my babies humble me
Here they test what love can mean
Here my head is filled with blood
And fear, and fear, and yet I shrug
And grin, my dear, my dearest love
What fun we had today

Breathe in, breathe out
Disaster threatens every angle
Twist and shout
Yes the naked dancing
Endlessly

Here my babies humble me
Here they test what love can mean
Here my head is filled with blood
And fear, and fear, and yet I shrug
And grin, my dear, my dearest love
What fun we had today

Breathe in scream out
Where sunset brilliance leaves us begging
For more of this
unsettling
This deepest truest reckoning
This lovely bubble laughing trouble
How lovely love can be

copyright 2009 all rights reserved
Camille Bright-Smith

If you would love nothing more than to read more about this annoying FOX reporter please read John Bohrer’s comments on Huffington Post

Listen To: Glenn Beck Please Don’t Cry

I’m down here in my bunker
Heart breaking while you cry
You are my foxy baby
You are my apple pie

I know Obama voters
Are costumed communists
Turned in my Rabbit Pearl
Savin’ myself for Beck

Don’t cry
Baby please don’t cry
GB please don’t cry
Baby please don’t cry

Poor baby he’s surrounded
He’s really scared and tired
Sick of the terror victims
Complaining cause they died

My sweet faced Glenn Back baby
I’ll hold you while you cry
Chuck Norris said it sagely
We need a forest fire

Don’t cry
Baby please don’t cry
GB please don’t cry
Baby please don’t cry

Be afraid, be very afraid….

Copyright 2009 by Camille Bright-Smith with John Bright
All rights reserved