Kari Maaren

We Protest the Robot Occupation
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This was one of my earlier SF songs.  I'm from Vancouver, so I reserve the right to put it in songs about protesting earnestly against robot occupations.  You know you've been away from home for too long when your thoughts of Save-On Foods become wistful and nostalgic.

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Lyrics and Chords
We Protest the Robot Occupation
A /  D /  A /  E Esus4 E /
A /  D /  A /  E /                               

     A               D             A          D
Last Thursday, I was having coffee at a coffee shop
           A               E       Esus4 E A Esus4 E
When the explosions started tearing up the street.
    A                 D                  A                 D
Now I’ve joined the resistance formed of several desperate human stragglers
A               E     Esus4 E A Dsus4 A
Clinging to dim hope amidst defeat.
    F#m                                Bm             A
The robots hunt us down, and then they kill us one by one
D                 A           E Esus4 E Esus2 E
Or haul us off to slavery and pain,
    A                 E                A             D
And since this is all happening in the suburbs of Vancouver,
        A                E        Esus4 E A Asus4 A
For the most part, it is happening in the rain.
 
    A         D                A            D
The human revolution’s got off to what I suppose
              A         E      Esus4 E A Esus4 E
Will prove to be a very useful kind of start.
      A            D               A           D
We’ve had a few committee meetings in an empty Save-On Foods,
    A           E       Esus4 E A Dsus4 A
And everybody’s shown a lot of heart.
      F#m                                  Bm          A
We’re making signs and placards, and we’ve started a petition;
          D             A            E Esus4 E Esus2 E
We’ve got almost twenty signatures so far.
      A               E              A               D
We’ll send a forceful message to our robot lords and masters:
          A              E            A Asus4 A
They will tremble at how organised we are.
 
A              D         A     Asus4 A Asus2 A
We protest the robot occupation.
A             D           E Esus4 E
We don’t like being human slaves.
       D                 E                A                 D
Please stop if you don’t mind, for we’re afraid that we all find
              A             E      Esus4 E A Asus4 A
That we would rather not be rotting in our graves.
 
       A                 D          A                D
Though we can’t trust computers, elevators, cars, or phones,
          A              E     Esus4 E A Esus4 E
We have decided we won’t let it get us down.
      A              D             A                 D
We’re carefully hand-lettering the pamphlets that we plan to give to
A              E     Esus4 E A Dsus4 A
All the killer robots left in town.
   F#m                                   Bm              A
We think that if we show them that we’re sticking to our guns
D                 A              E Esus4 E Esus2 E
And that we are determined to survive,
        A               E                A               D
They’ll have to form committees of their own so they can figure out
   A                   E          A Asus4 A
If they should leave a few of us alive.

A              D         A     Asus4 A Asus2 A
We protest the robot occupation.
A             D           E Esus4 E
We don’t like being human slaves.
       D                 E                A                 D
Please stop if you don’t mind, for we’re afraid that we all find
              A             E      Esus4 E A Asus4 A
That we would rather not be rotting in our graves.

   A            D           A            D
We know our situation isn’t optimal, but we
         A                E    Esus4 E A Esus4 E
Are not intending to give in without a fight.
   A               D              A           D
As long as we have people left to handle our opinion polls,
      A                 E       Esus4 E A Dsus4 A
We’re pretty sure we’re going to be all right.
   F#m                         Bm              A
If we all band together and we make our voices heard,
     D             A                 E Esus4 E Esus2 E
We’ll overcome the robots with sheer will.
      A             E                 A             D
We’ll baffle and confuse them with the power of our arguments,
     A                   E              A Asus4 A
With luck before there’s no one left to kill.
 
A              D         A     Asus4 A Asus2 A
We protest the robot occupation.
A             D           E Esus4 E
We don’t like being human slaves.
       D                 E                A                 D
Please stop if you don’t mind, for we’re afraid that we all find
              A             E      Esus4 E A Asus4 A
That we would rather not be rotting in our graves.

A              D         A     Asus4 A Asus2 A
We protest the robot occupation.
A             D           E Esus4 E
We don’t like being human slaves.
       D                 E                A                 D
Please stop if you don’t mind, for we’re afraid that we all find
              A             E      Esus4 E A Asus4 A
That we would rather not be rotting in our graves.

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Content copyright Kari Maaren 2013
Images copyright Kari Maaren, Phil Mills, Erik Mohr, and Karl Stahl 2013