Biden/Trump 2020 If Only It Were True (original song by David Rovics)
Channel: Mitnerd36
Date: 26/10/2020

Based on David Rovics' 2016 election song "If Only It Were True."

New lyrics and performance by Jacob Minter, please use freely.

Lyrics:

I looked around online, that’s how you spend your time
When you’re trapped inside during a plague
I watched the white old men grunt and shout again
Lurching from dog-whistles to the vague.
Trump and Biden rage to plexiglass and stage
In theatres empty of an audience
Biden does his bit, tries to show a bit of wit,
while Trump’s assertions just get more intense.
He says that Biden will, with cunning and with skill
Defund the police and tax the rich
That he’ll make the healthcare free, he’ll let asylum seekers be
And kick capitalism into a ditch.

CHORUS:
If only it were true, if only it were true
I'd be so happy, wouldn't you?
If only it were true, if only it were true
If Only It Were True.

Biden’s actual VP is really AOC
And somehow he is also Bernie too
He’ll shut the coal mines down to put windmills in your town
Ban fracking and drilling through and through
He’ll ignore the lobbies, he’ll end corporate subsidies
Injection sites will soon be on rise
He’ll make the schools teach Marx, turn golf courses into parks
Make retail and service workers organize
He will pass the Green New Deal, he’ll make reparations real,
turn the Post Office into a bank!
He won’t even let your town tear the homeless shelter down
He’ll make your cops pay for it by selling the tank!

[CHORUS]

I hear the white house yell, this shall be the death knell,
He’ll make us put slaves in our history
He’ll gut military spending, our empire will be ending,
He’ll tax guns to fund weed dispensaries
He’ll put solar in your town, he will shut the prisons down
Let other countries have a say in what we do
Make 4-year college free, the internet a utility,
He’ll end the electoral college too
Trump says Biden won’t stop there, felons voting everywhere
The country will be changed entirely
Socialism will take hold as the corporations fold
It all can happen if you fire me!

[CHORUS]x2