IfIHadAHiFi: Imperial Walker

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IfIHadAHiFi recorded this song in 2011 as a response to, and in solidarity with, the Act 10 protests in Madison. This track raised $500+ for Russ Feingold's Progressives United PAC, and in a real way, it's the first UNINTIMIDATED song by our UNINTIMIDATED collective.

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lyrics

Sell off the government with slight of hand
Strip the rights away from the working clans
The governor's declared war on behalf of his benefactors
Dispatching Imperial Walkers to the capitol door
Open for business
Everything must go
Now we're rebel soldiers marching in the snow

Fourteen senators on the lam
A state line away from the Empire's hand
Giving all of us time to make like Bothan spies
Spreading information far and wide
Breaking through the lies
Ten thousand, twenty thousand, sixty-five
If you screw us we will multiply

Face down the Imperial Walker
The puppet prince can't make us paupers
Take down the Imperial Walker
Imperial Walker, Imperial Walker
Face down the Imperial Walker
The puppet prince can't make us paupers
Take down the Imperial Walker
Imperial Walker, Imperial Walker

So Mr. Governor, you may wish us ill
As we take over your buildings fueled by pizza from Brazil
Threaten our schools, threaten our jobs, we took a vow
To stop you cuz we're all Wisconsin now
So we'll march all day
Play the drums all night
This is what happens when you poke a badger in the eye

credits

released August 13, 2015
Recorded and mixed on February 27 at Howl Street Recordings, Milwaukee Wisconsin by Nick Ehlert and assisted by Dan Siercks
Yale Delay: Guitar, backing vocals
MrAlarm: Bass, backing vocals
Rev.Ever: Guitar, backing vocals
DrAwkward: Drums, lead vocals
Copyright 2011, all rights reserved

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Punk and DIY bands coming together to protest Scott Walker, Donald Trump, and right-wing fascism and corruption in all its forms. All money raised is donated.

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