[2016]
Lyrics & music by Lee Shapiro

“A Country-Rock tune about the 2016 presidential race, and general racism in America.
This song isn't based on any single individual, but rather a combination of news articles and various postings I've read on Facebook, from both friends and strangers”.

[2015]
Lyrics & music by Lee Shapiro
Album:

A plea to stop the gun violence, bombings and wars around the world. Hatred, religious and cultural bigotry, power and money drive the violence and divide us all. And divided we shall fall...

[2020]
Lyrics & music by Lee Shapiro

In 2020 (Part 2) is about the year of a CoronaVirus pandemic, systemic police racism, the BLM movement, riots, face masks, politics, and, of course, Trump making everything worse..

“When I wrote "In 2020 (Part 1)", back in February, it was basically a personal story about my medical issues and my continued anger and frustration of Trump. When it was written and posted online, none of the major issues that were facing this year had even begun. No pandemic, no riots, no protesting, no confederate flag protests, no Wall Street crashes, no face masks, no self-quarantining and no Trump making all of this much worse. So I had to write a second part of this song, to include everything that happened since I wrote the first part. The music is similar (with a faster tempo and some changes), but different enough to make it an entirely new song”.

[2020]
Lyrics & music by Lee Shapiro

“A song about power, politics and medication. Along with anger, fear, depression and hopelessness. I wrote this song on 02/02/2020 and recorded it at 2020 (8:20 pm), just before the CoronaVirus became a pandemic and before we became aware of it. So, perhaps this song should be called "2020 Part 1".
I had three things on my mind: Politics, pain and my mental health. All of which seems to be deteriorating by the day. The Democratic Party has let me down and I’m resigned to be stuck with Trump for another 4 years. My doctors have let me down. They’ve teamed up against me, and it seems they’re more concerned about getting in trouble with the government than they are with my quality of life. I’ve been extremely angry and scared for so long because of this, but have finally become numb and now feel powerless. I’ve given up the fight. I just don’t care anymore. And that’s what this song is about”.
Well, it can happen to anyone ...