Ask & Tell

Follow the cadence, left right step\r\nNow everyone is allowed to step\r\nYou didn't ask me what you didn't want to hear\r\nBut now we can tell you loud and clear\r\nCamouflage covers more than troops in the brush\r\nThe red laser dots aimed right towards us\r\nUncle Sam wanted you but didn't want me\r\nWell that's too bad for him, we can cure disease\r\nBig Brother, Uncle Sam, you were missing out\r\nOn the best of America's strengths\r\nCuz when you're gay in America, you go to great lengths\r\nTo win all your battles, coming out of the shadows\r\nInfiltrate the base, rainbows in space\r\nGive the boys a taste of the citizens they waste\r\nCloset doors blown off, freedom no longer is lost\r\nKeep the pressure on 'em, Patrick Murphy led the cause\r\n\r\nSecrets are kept while the government accepts\r\nMistreatment of its people like it's okay to accept\r\nThat gays can't fight, we'll distract the men at night\r\nBut that's a stereotype, so let's get this right\r\nAsk and tell, we won't burn in hell\r\nRead the constitution and brainstorm a resolution\r\nLightning crashes like rifles through the Hummers in the summer\r\nOur anger was building while the nation was killing\r\nChances of success when they refuse to make gay vets\r\nSuppressing rights and freedoms but we no longer will let them\r\nRefuse hard working men and women at the army station\r\nOr endorse segregation like a pre-Lincoln nation\r\nYeah like a pre-Lincoln nation, we are the free nation\r\n\r\nMarch for our rights, bring strength to the fight\r\nWe will no longer be silent, the truth is in sight\r\nCrazy accusations on radio stations\r\nIt's about time, we were getting impatient\r\nVote for our own country, it's still our country too\r\nObama, Mr. Murphy, I'm passing the torch to you\r\nKeep the flame blazed or I will come and save\r\nWhat democracy protects, who we vote for an elect\r\nWe'll meet their fire with our light\r\nExtinguish hate collaborate and demonstrate\r\nDemonstrate that we're right\r\nWe're entering a fight of the mind and at night\r\nBut our spirit's tight, all things good and right\r\nMy freedom to speak, my freedom to think\r\nHaters meet your fate cuz soon all hate will be extinct\r\nHate will be extinct\r\n\r\nThis is just what I think, we're on the brink\r\nSo, what's next? Gay marriage? I do.