From the recordings Life, Love, and Philosophy and I Don't Owe You
Live as you want, Love who you want, be unique, worship as you see fit, and above all be individuals, but that doesn’t mean you get to tell other people how to think or act, or that they owe you something. This is distinctly un-American. We have adopted a form of thinking that is crushing the right of the Individual and returning us all to the enslavement and the will of the collective. Something that has plagued mankind since we first crawled out of trees to form communities.
Ayn Rand had some strong opinions about sexuality, and some may view her as unaccepting, but nowhere in Objectivism is there a statement that the government should force people to be anything other than what they want to be. Yet our government seems to think they can force people to accept each other using various forms of coercion. The United States was called “the melting pot” for a reason, and while it may take longer for different groups of people to be accepted, the reality is that true Capitalism is the best way to achieve acceptance, not by forcing people into a caste system that judges them based on irrelevant choices or physical characteristics.
Lyrics
I Don’t Owe You ©2022 (C* = CM7 CM7sus2add6 CM7sus2 CM7sus2add6)
-Art Wildish Music Group, LLC- Detune to F Intro: G* - 2x (G* = G A7sus2/G GMb11sus2 A7sus2/G)
G* C*
I don’t care who you love, it’s not my place to judge things like that.
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I say live and let live, life’s too short to be that way.
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And if your skins a shade of brown, its kind of nice to be different.
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Someone said its your character, that matters anyway.
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But don’t tell me that I owe you more than that, don’t tell me my life is yours.
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For the choices that you make, are what make you who you are.
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It’s your life, it’s not mine, I’m not your tool.
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We had a plan for this place, it wasn’t perfect to be sure.
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You could say anything, as long as force was set aside.
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But politicians’ rhetoric, has turned to violence on both sides.
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All the while gaining power, while pretending that they care.
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Don’t tell me that’s it right to hurt someone, I can love you for who you are.
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But you can’t force another’s love at the point of a gun.
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It’s your choice, walk away, don’t be their fool.
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If you’re confused about some things, its ok to be confused.
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I say live and let live, you can be anything.
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You think you’re different, that might be, diff’rences can be deceiving.
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When you allow someone else, to control what you think.
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Just don’t tell me that I owe you what I have, don’t tell me my life is yours.
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For the choices that we make, are what make us who we are.
C D G* - 2x end on G
It’s your life, it’s my life, don’t be confused.