Fire & Lightning by The Monolators

This is a song from our new album, coming out Fall 2025.

I wrote this in 2020 during the first Trump administration as a protest against the US government’s inhumane policy of separating migrant families at the border. I set it aside after Biden won in 2020, but since the start of the second Trump administration it has become, unfortunately, topical again.

-Eli

What about the borderlands, uh huh
What about the people down there, uh huh
I don’t know much, I’m just a father. If someone stole my children I’d want

Fire and lightning, rolling thunder
The earth to split and buildings crumble, uh huh

What about the cages down there, uh huh
What about the reckoning, uh huh
I don’t know much, I’m just downhearted. If you’ve got a mind that is cruel, I want

Fire and lightning, rolling thunder
The earth to split and buildings crumble, uh huh

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