Audi: Archive

Join the parade you can be anyone at all
You can be a big man, you can feel ten feet tall
Join the parade you can blow off some steam
You can hide behind the crowd but still say what you mean

are people pushing you around?
Like you don’t belong here in your town
Are strange new people closing in?
They got funny eyes and different skin

Well we’ve got the answer for you
How the many can be led by the few
And here’s something totally new
Grab your hat and get your gun
We’ll be marching out to light the midnight sun
If you join the parade

Join the parade you can be anyone at all
You can be a big man, you can feel ten feet tall
Join the parade you can blow off some steam
You can hide behind the crowd but still say what you mean

No barriers gonna keep ‘em back
This place feels like it’s been attacked
We’re looking for a few good men
To make the zone feel safe again

Well we’ve got the answer for you
How the many can be led by the few
And here’s something totally new
Grab your hat and get your gun
We’ll be marching out to light the midnight sun
Gonna light the midnight sun
If you join the parade

(SPOKEN: The symbols and the leaders changed, but Germany’s maniacal urge to impose its will on others continues from generation to generation

Stop thinking and follow your God Emperor, cried the Japanese warlords, and Japan will rule the world, and the people answered: banzai, banzai!)

And here’s something totally new
Grab your hat and get your gun
We’ll be marching out to light the midnight sun

If you join the parade…

The whole 1931 album just guts me. What impresses me most about the narrative is how much of its focus falls not on the evil of Hitler and Mussolini and other leaders, but on the average citizen’s willingness to be sold fascism as the answer in times of economic and social crisis. Because that’s where the power is.

That’s also where the resistance starts.