BEFORE

A musical plunge from a relative utopia to dystopia, echoing the chaos of a world succumbing to lies, censorship, and a media controlled by global powers.

My new song “Before” was inspired by Naomi Wolf’s Substack: 

Facing the Beast: Courage, Faith and Resistance in a New Dark Age

Here is Dr. Wolf’s introduction to her new book “Facing the Beast: Courage, Faith and Resistance in a New Dark Age”:

This story begins in the “Before” world.

“Before” the years 2020 to 2023, when a set of policies based on abject lies posed an existential threat to our democracy and our way of life. “Before” this likely AI-deployed set of lies, dispensed globally, targeted our West with its core traditions of free speech—and in the US, with its First Amendment—with arrant censorship.

“Before” the Left—the subculture that used to stand for human rights, freedom of speech, real science, critical thinking, and skepticism about Big Government and Big Corporations, let alone about their merger, and that used to fight against discrimination and inequality—fell into a trance in which that same group became champions of censorship, and of a two-tier society in which some people, as the pigs declared in Animal Farm, are “more equal” than others; and fell prey to magical thinking and cultlike behavior.

“Before” the media—which used to see itself as the source of investigation of elite powers; which used to ask questions about received narratives; which used to demand that its journalists produce evidence and independent verification before drawing conclusions in print—were bought out by Big Government via the CARES Act, and by Big Pharma directly, and by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, to the extent that almost all legacy media became unquestioning stenographers for interested parties aligned with the global powers who dictated the harmful nonsense.

I miss the “BeforeTimes.” __________________________________________________________________________

Here are the lyrics:

Before

Before they came and took you down
Before the day turned night
Before the trance
Left you askance
Before the world…no longer bright

Chorus:
Before the scam which you believed
Before the shots
Gladly received
No consciousness of dirty deeds
Before the lies
Your hate began to breed

(v2) Before you stood so mesmerized
They pulled the strings of fear
You bowed down
To a clown
An aging puppeteer

Chorus:
Before the scam which you believed
Before the shots
Gladly received
No consciousness of dirty deeds
Before the lies
Your hate began to breed

Bridge: Before the censorship took hold
You were never oh so bold
Before the mask adorned your face
No one knew you were disgraced

Verse instrumental

Chorus (2) Before the science was betrayed
Shadows crept and then held sway
Truth sacrificed for the globalist way
For the greater good—now you’ll surely pay

Bridge (2) Before the beacon of hope restrained
Before the lockdowns brought so much pain
Before your hopes went down the drain
Before the lies that squelched your brain

(v4) Before the mob sealed its fate
All that was good, they’d desecrate
Before the time they now conceal
Until the day all is revealed

Chorus:
Before the scam which you believed
Before the shots
Gladly received
All our words you never heed
But one day
But one day
Truth will be your creed