Rebel Loon Rising - Moody Mid-70s Heartland Rock

Visit www.Movements.Rocks for songs that meet the moment. A new song every week (lyrics and alternate genres) because every movement needs a soundtrack. Subscribe for free to support my work. ☝️ LYRICS: Black SUVs await Windows dark as tar Masked men scanning plates From the unmarked car Schools go dark at noon Storefront shutters fall Neighbors screaming warnings Through a piercing whistle call The loon on the lake goes silent Circles in the gray We watch them take our neighbors And something breaks that day No courtrooms, no mercy Just masks and a plane You see a mother taken You just can’t look away Rebel loon rising Over frozen lake and pine They call us rebel scum We wear it with pride Rebel loon rising You can hear the whistle blow We have friends everywhere Right here in the falling snow Someone tails the ICE convoy Through our street’s frozen glare Phones up, recording everything We have watchers everywhere Someone brings the groceries To a family laying low Someone tracks the charter flights Through falling February snow A poet says “I’m not mad at you” Bleeding out on winter ground A nurse asks “Are you okay?” Before lethal shots ring out The lake wind carries names now Through every street and square You thought you ruled the silence But we have friends everywhere Rebel loon rising Across the prairie sky They call us rebel scum We answer standing high Rebel loon rising From Duluth to St. Paul square We have friends everywhere Watching the corruption laid bare We blow the warning whistles This is the way We watch the courthouse doors This is the way We stand with cameras rolling This is the way We keep ICE awake at midnight This is the way We walk the kids to school This is the way We respond with the rapid networks Across the state at all hours This is the way We deliver food and blankets And guard the churchyard towers This is the way You call us rebel scum We wear it proud today Rebel loon rising Hear the northern waters cry Rebel loon rising Under the North Star sky Rebel loon rising From the lakes to far away We have friends everywhere And they’re rising every day Rebel loon rising Let the empire hear us say We have friends everywhere This. Is. The way. Visit www.Movements.Rocks for songs that meet the moment. A new song every week (lyrics and alternate genres) because every movement needs a soundtrack. Subscribe for free to support my work. ☝️