sung to the tune of
“You Made Me Love You”

We’re not the good guys
They didn’t want to do it
We didn’t want them to do it
They’re not the good good guys
Guess they always knew it
You know, we always knew it
They were so slap happy
Sometimes they seemed so rad
But there were times dear
You know they were so bad

They made us cry so
We didn’t want to do it
We didn’t want to do it
We need some love that’s true
Yes we do, deed we do, you know we do
Give us, give us, give us what we cry for
Brand of Revelation-Revolution we could die for
You know they made us love them ——
You know they made us love them!

 

James Van Looy has been a fixture in Boston’s poetry venues since the 1970s. He is a member of Cosmic Spelunker Theater and has run poetry workshops for Boston area homeless people at Pine Street Inn and St. Francis House since 1992. Van Looy leads the Labyrinth Creative Movement Workshop, which his Labyrinth titled poems are based on. His work appears weekly in Oddball Magazine.