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about
So few people are given an opportunity to positively influence society. Every now and then an artist or writer strikes a nerve in the general public creating or leading a mood for social change. As their popularity grows the opportunity to substantially improve the quality of life, or the prospects for lasting peace become attainable realities.
Who Will Lead follows the story of such an artist who for one reason or another becomes quiet and fades into the background at the height of his potential social benefit. Instead he settles for fame and celebrityhood rather than lead the movement he helped invent.
Our needs are great, and the leadership for life affirming causes is unknown if not non-existent. So, we are apt to ask:
Who will lead, will end misery?
lyrics
Who Will Lead 1/3/02
They say he spoke for a generation took away their blinders and chains
Gave life to a new generation a just prophet with rage
Yet I find no footprints of courage, I see no vestige of change
I see only a drugged out shyster, that sought only fortune and fame
The more he could do the quieter he became
Goals and ideals readily did fade
Many years have gone by the social world is in decay
The village voice has become the village idiot, led so many astray
Instead of emancipation we only see pain
A life of degradation is on the rise again
The bridge has torn away, stranded, some escape some pray
Who will lead, will end misery?
We need a new voice to start a new flame
Someone who won’t sell out for some small change
We need a new plan free of exploitation
We need a strong hand to unite this generation
We need to act not just complain
We need to share, treat everyone the same
Let the dead die away
Make the users stop their game
What we need is common sense, what we need is compassion
What I want is a better world, what I want is for everyone
We don’t need old ideas of competition and pain
We don’t need old solutions of escapism and gain
We don’t need old ideals, no idols that lead astray
We don’t need old solutions that divide and betray
Who will lead, will end misery?
credits
from Ambivalence,
released January 3, 2017
Vocals Jim Guido
Guitar Jim Guido
Bass Jim Guido
Keyboards Jim Guido
Drums Jeff Hemphill
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