Name: Something To Believe In
Duration: P00H03M09S
Description: Something To Believe In: I've long believed that the best political/protest music is the type that doesn't give you blunt force trauma, or at least gives you a really good guitar solo as some small measure of compensation. I hope this song is a success by at least one of these measures.

Something To Believe In

from Making Things Up by Thomas Johanson

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Something To Believe In: I've long believed that the best political/protest music is the type that doesn't give you blunt force trauma, or at least gives you a really good guitar solo as some small measure of compensation. I hope this song is a success by at least one of these measures.

lyrics

I wish I had your imagination
That like you I could spend all day making things up
What a neat trick / To sway the crowd
With a parting of lips and a flick of the tongue
To give them all something to believe in...

I wish I had your conviction
Strong enough to reshape the way we see the world
I'd raise the cry / To abandon anger
To embrace like brothers and remember
What it was like to have something to believe in...

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from Making Things Up, released July 19, 2011
Guitars, bass, vocals, drum machine: Thomas Johanson

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Thomas Johanson Minnesota

Unsatisfied with the notion of sticking with any particular genre, I choose to explore them all.

Here you will find a partial account of my journey.

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