Let's Not Keep Quiet

We might have found our anthem (thank you, Connie Lim, aka MILCK). But if that's the case, please let this song (also) be about climate justice ... because if we don't get that right — and fast — in a very short while there won't be any safety, justice or equal rights for anyone, anywhere.

Please let's not keep quiet about the climate change emergency, about its perpetrators (and perpetuators), and about how their denial for the sake of greed is killing our children's future.

p.s. I'm working on a climate change verse, but I'm no songwriter, so it might take a while. (Send me your suggestions!)

Published on Youtube on February 17, 2017:

In the face of adversity, MILCK refuses to be silent. The Los Angeles-based singer went viral at the Washington Women’s March with her song “(I Can’t Keep) Quiet.” We loved it. So we invited her to come sing it with us.

On February 6th, a sold-out crowd of 1300 singers at the Phoenix Concert Theatre in Toronto raised their voices to protest the current US administration’s threatening action on global liberty, women’s rights, healthcare, etc. Daveed Goldman and Nobu Adilman, co-founders of C!C!C! [Choir! Choir! Choir!], taught their arrangement of “Quiet” to the pumped-up, all-ages crowd, and an hour later, MILCK joined them to sing lead and record a powerful show of peaceful, harmonic resistance, with proceeds going to support the American Civil Liberties Union.

“Quiet” has quickly grown from female empowerment anthem to a unifying message of hope and raucous protest for young and old, and for all genders. Play it, feel it, share it!

Quiet

by Connie Lim and Adrianne Gonzalez 

Put on your face
Know your place
Shut up and smile
Don’t spread your legs
I could do that

But no one knows me, no one ever will
If I don’t say something, if I just lie still
Would I be that monster, scare them all away
If I let them hear what I have to say

I can’t keep quiet, no oh oh oh oh oh oh
I can’t keep quiet, no oh oh oh oh oh oh
A one woman riot, no oh oh oh oh oh oh

I can’t keep quiet
For anyone
Anymore

Cuz no one knows me, no one ever will
If I don’t say something, take that dry blue pill
They may see that monster, they may run away
But I have to do this
I can’t keep quiet, no oh oh oh oh oh oh
I can’t keep quiet, no oh oh oh oh oh oh
A one woman riot, no oh oh oh oh oh oh
Oh, I can’t keep quiet

There'll be someone who understands
Let it out 
Let it out
Let it out now
There’ll be someone who understands
Let it out 
Let it out
Let it out now
Must be someone who’ll understand
Let it out 
Let it out
Let it out now
There’ll be someone who understands
Let it out 
Let it out
Let it out now

I can’t keep quiet