The Day We Went Invisible

2 weeks ago by @geekysoprano

The Day We Went Invisible

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Liner Notes

Edit: Very chopping recording up, but it's up!

Also, going to come back and change up the melody in the verses later as I belatedly realized it's too close to a Dar Williams song I love, so apologies to her on that one!

I really wanted to write this though, as I had this idea to turn the fact that the government is currently trying to erase trans and nonbinary folks from existence on its head, and talk about what would happen if we actually *did* wind up being invisible. While I hope I'm not offending anyone by making light of what is *absolutely not* a laughing matter, I hope you'll see it as the act of "humor as resistance" it's intended as.

Going to try and see if I can't get myself to pick up the uke and record this and my other songs on the docket in the next day or two.

Lyrics

Well I woke up just a week ago Monday
With the stars still blurred in my eyes
Staggered over to the slightly smeary mirror
And what I saw, or rather didn’t, sure gave me a surprise
For it turns out this weary waking they-them
Had a vampire’s reflection so to speak
And when I texted other trans folks and enbies
Turns out we all had noticed the same vanishing physique

Well Kai asked if maybe we were goners
But Asher said, “Ghosts don’t use their phones”
And so we all decided this dishonor
Must have come from the angry orange man on his throne
“Well what should we do with our powers?”
Asked Esther, always one step ahead
“If we’re ghostly and clear, might as well make it queer,
So lets go ahead and give ‘em the one thing that they fear…
…the trans agenda!”

The day we went invisible we walked right down the street
Went dancing through the stores of all the richest and elite
No one could see us taking goods and giving them away
Or if they did who’d believe them anyway?
You’d best go think and pray.

We claimed the title “trans-parent army”
(Cause who doesn’t love a good pun?)
And we grabbed extra formula for babies
And we scared off MAGATs who were tryin’ to buy guns
Low-cost clinic staff gasped when they found boxes
Full of meds their clients couldn’t afford
And the folks on the street, needing something to eat
Swore that spirits made them soup that was both savory and sweet
Every Sunday

The day we went invisible we walked right down the street
Went dancing through the stores of all the richest and elite
No one could see us taking goods and giving them away
Or if they did who’d believe them anyway?
You’d best go think and pray.

The day we went invisible we reclaimed it instead
No strangers to great changes we just simply moved ahead
With caring for each other and the people most in need
For that’s “the trans agenda” that we heed
Truth written through our deeds

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