Words and Music: Amy Ray
Note: This song is a reincarnation of Problem Child
Through the dustbowl through the debt
Grandma was a suffragette
Blacklisted for her publication
Blacklisted for my generation
Go, go, go
Raise your hands, raise your hands high
Don’t take a seat don’t stand aside
This time don’t assume anything
Just go, go, go
So feed the fire and fan the flame
I know the kids can stand the rain
I know the kids are still upsetters
Cause rock is cool but the struggle is better
I said go, go, go
Raise your hands, raise your hands high
Don’t take a seat don’t stand aside
This time don’t assume anything
This time don’t assume anything
I said go, go, go
The truth is I was afraid . . .
. . .I felt inferior. . .
. . .I felt I excelled in competing with others
And I knew instantly that these people
Were not competing at all, that they were acting in a
Strange, powerful trance of movement together.
And I was filled with longing to act
With them and with the fear that I could not.
Did they tell you it was set in stone
And that you would end up alone
Use your years to psych you out
You’re too old to care, they’re too young to count
Did they tell you you would come undone
If you tried to touch the sun
Undermine the underground
You’re too old to care they’re too young to count
I said go, go, go
Amy Ray: Electric and acoustic guitars, vocals
Emily Saliers: Electric guitar, vocals
John Reynolds: Drums
Dawson Miller: Percussion
Clare Kenny: Bass
Carol Isaacs: Organ and moog
Caroline Dale: Cello
Joan Osborne: Backing vocals
Spoken word written by Meridel Le Sueur, from «I Was Marching.»