The Mountain Goats — Solidarity Forever The Jordan Lake Sessions Volume 4

[Verse 1] When the union's inspiration through the workers' blood shall run There can be no power greater 'neath the stars or 'neath the sun Yet what force on earth is weaker than the feeble strength of one But the Union makes us strong [Chorus] Solidarity forever Solidarity forever Solidarity forever For the Union makes us strong [Verse 2] Is there aught we hold in common with the greedy parasite Who would lash us into serfdom and would crush us with his might? Is there anything left to us but to organize and fight? For the union makes us strong [Chorus] Solidarity forever Solidarity forever Solidarity forever For the Union makes us strong [Verse 3] All the world that's owned by idle drones is ours and ours alone We have laid the wide foundations, built it skyward stone by stone It is ours, not to toil in, but to master and to own For the union makes us strong (Yeah!) [Chorus] Solidarity forever Solidarity forever Solidarity forever For the Union makes us strong [Verse 4] They have taken untold millions that they never toiled to earn But without our brain and muscle not a single wheel can turn We can break their haughty power gain our freedom when we learn That the Union makes us strong [Chorus] Solidarity forever Oh solidarity forever Solidarity forever For the Union makes us strong [Verse 5] In our hands is placed a power greater than their hoarded gold Greater than the might of armies magnified a thousandfold We can bring to birth a new world from the ashes of the old For the Union makes us strong [Chorus] Oh solidarity forever Yeah solidarity forever Solidarity forever For the Union makes us strong Everybody! Solidarity forever Yeah solidarity forever Oh solidarity forever For the Union makes us strong [Outro] Yeah, man It's a saxophone song! It's a saxophone song. There has to be some local sax makers' union someplace, yeah. Solidarity with the sax makers, man. Ah, that was really fun This, uh, this song isn't any fun at all. I mean, it's fun for me to play, I enjoy playing it, but it's a very hideous song about a couple who aren't, this will shock you to hear, a couple who aren't getting along very well. They once did and now they don't. And um, and rarther than try to fix it, they're fixating on it. A simple three letters that would make a big difference in their lives, if they just chop the '-ate' of off 'fixate' and fix something, but they're not gonna do that. Because I invented them, and I'm not going to allow them. I'm just going to torture them like a horrible person tearing the wings off of flies. This is called "Soft Target"