<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><font>Democracy</font></div><div> </div><div><br></div><div><font>If a tree falls in the forest </font><div>And no one is there to hear it </div><div>Does it make a sound </div><div>If a ballot falls in a box </div><div>And no one knows</div><div>What they are voting for </div><div>Does it really count</div><div>What happens to a dream deferred</div><div>To justice deterred </div><div>To life </div><div>When it becomes impossible to live it </div><div>I don't want to know </div><div>Because I want more than a vote</div><div>I want to be a participant </div><div>See</div><div>I want to live in a free country </div><div>A democracy </div><div>Where hate speech </div><div>Doesn't pass for freedom </div><div>Where </div><div>No one has to turn to crime </div><div>To feed their children </div><div>If you were to put <br></div><div>A measure on a ballot </div><div>I would vote for democracy</div><div>I want the same things as anyone </div><div>And i want them for everyone</div><div>I want to live in a free country </div><div>A democracy </div><div>Not with over two million</div><div>Locked in cages </div><div>Or millions more </div><div>Pushed into the street</div><div>Where as Ferguson shows</div><div>You cant even surrender </div><div>To police </div><div>One nation </div><div>Under ghetto birds</div><div>And terror copters </div><div>Locking down children </div><div>At the border </div><div>Cutting off </div><div>Families </div><div>From their water</div><div>While cutting lunch programs</div><div>To drop bombs on Iraq</div><div>I dont want to live like that </div><div>I want to live in a free country </div><div>A democracy </div><div>What happens to a dream deferred</div><div>To justice deterred</div><div>To life </div><div>When it becomes impossible </div><div>To live it </div><div>If you dont know who you are </div><div>You can never know your power </div><div>You dont know who you are </div><div>But you will soon find out </div><div>Let your voice be heard</div><div>And may it finally count </div><div><br></div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>- Matt Sedillo</div><div> </div><div> </div><div style="font-size: small; "><font size="3"><br></font></div></div></body></html>