What if the Wizard of Oz were really just a political fable. Well, actually, I guess it is, but since Free Silver and William Jennings Bryant are no longer big players, I thought I'd update it a bit.
Hipper Than Thou is essentially School House Rock for obscure history and theology.
Hipper Than Thou is an ill fated collection of personalities with no commercial aspirations whatsoever. Our music is less bound by style than it is by talent. All songs are limited to the 9 chords our guitarist knows. Stylistically we range from Folk, to Jazz Folk, to Electric Folk, with a little Folk Rock.
Story behind the song
Winston Churchill said that if you're not a liberal as a youth, you don't have a heart and if you're not a conservative as an adult, you don't have a brain. I thought the trinity needed to be finished, so I decided if you really follow either party line, you just don't have the courage.
Lyrics
If I Only Had A Brain
We can fight, we can win, we can stop the evil men.
We can right every wrong, while we sing a snappy song.
We can rob from the rich now legally, in the name of someone poor.
If I only had a brain, I could think about it.
If I only had a brain, I could figure it out.
With the thoughts that I’d be thinking I could be another Lincoln,
If I only had a brain
We can set people free, we can end bureaucracy,
We can end Marx’s, if we only privatize.
Everyman has such a burden nowadays, it getting hard to ignore.
If I only had a heart, I’d feel empathy,
If I only had a heart, I could love you.
I’d be tender, I’d be gentle, I’d be awful sentimental,
If I only had a heart
Something is wrong, I can’t place it.
Something is wrong, on the left and the right.
Something is wrong, I hate to face it.
It’s so much easier to take a side.
If I only had the nerve, I could do what’s right.
If I only had the nerve, I could stand up.
I could show the world my prowess, be a man and not a mowess,
If I only had the nerve
I’d be brave in any blizzard,
I’d be gentle as a lizard,
I’d be clever as a gizzard?
