{"id":15984,"date":"2014-12-01T23:52:07","date_gmt":"2014-12-01T23:52:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fadingad.com\/fadingadblog\/?p=15984"},"modified":"2017-12-01T03:23:21","modified_gmt":"2017-12-01T03:23:21","slug":"lilywhite-lies-1987-dont-wanna-be-another-number-world-aids-day-twenty-seven-years-later","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fadingad.com\/fadingadblog\/2014\/12\/01\/lilywhite-lies-1987-dont-wanna-be-another-number-world-aids-day-twenty-seven-years-later\/","title":{"rendered":"LILYWHITE LIES (1987) &#8211; DON&#8217;T WANNA BE ANOTHER NUMBER &#8211; WORLD AIDS DAY &#8211; Twenty-seven years later"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-playlist wp-audio-playlist wp-playlist-light\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"wp-playlist-current-item\"><\/div>\n\t\t<audio controls=\"controls\" preload=\"none\" width=\"558\"\n\t\t\t><\/audio>\n\t<div class=\"wp-playlist-next\"><\/div>\n\t<div class=\"wp-playlist-prev\"><\/div>\n\t<noscript>\n\t<ol>\n\t\t<li><a href='https:\/\/www.fadingad.com\/fadingadblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/lil.mp3'>Lilywhite Lies - Frank Jump \u00a9 1987<\/a><\/li>\t<\/ol>\n\t<\/noscript>\n\t<script type=\"application\/json\" class=\"wp-playlist-script\">{\"type\":\"audio\",\"tracklist\":false,\"tracknumbers\":true,\"images\":true,\"artists\":true,\"tracks\":[{\"src\":\"https:\/\/www.fadingad.com\/fadingadblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/lil.mp3\",\"type\":\"audio\/mpeg\",\"title\":\"Lilywhite Lies - Frank Jump \\u00a9 1987\",\"caption\":\"Lilywhite Lies - Frank Jump \\u00a9 1987\",\"description\":\"Lilywhite Lies\",\"meta\":[],\"image\":{\"src\":\"https:\/\/www.fadingad.com\/fadingadblog\/wp-includes\/images\/media\/audio.svg\",\"width\":48,\"height\":64},\"thumb\":{\"src\":\"https:\/\/www.fadingad.com\/fadingadblog\/wp-includes\/images\/media\/audio.svg\",\"width\":48,\"height\":64}}]}<\/script>\n<\/div>\n\t\n<p><em><strong>Lilywhite Lies<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Hey yo yo, How ya go?<br \/>\nI hear you don\u2019t like me \u2018cause I\u2019m a homo<br \/>\nHeard rumours \u2018round you don\u2019t wish me well<br \/>\nSay I\u2019m a devil child and goin\u2019 to hell<br \/>\nYou preach to crowds I\u2019m bad and wild<br \/>\nSpread disease and rape your child<br \/>\nSay if I don\u2019t repent it\u2019s God\u2019s punishment<br \/>\nA case of AIDS I\u2019ll get<br \/>\nI say, \u201cYou wanna bet?\u201d<br \/>\nYou hate me, berate me<br \/>\nBut you forget God did create me<br \/>\nYou say it\u2019s true, you hands\u2019ll heal<br \/>\nBut let me tell you preacher<br \/>\nYou ain\u2019t the real deal<br \/>\nSo listen minister, hear my story reverend<br \/>\nUntil you love me you ain\u2019t goin\u2019 to heaven<br \/>\nHo ho<\/p>\n<p>CHORUS: It\u2019s just another case of lilywhite lies, Lilywhite holy white<\/p>\n<p>Hey yo yo, what you know?<br \/>\nHavin\u2019 some trouble just sayin\u2019 no?<br \/>\nYou read the papers?\u00a0 Hear what they say?<br \/>\n\u201cYou\u2019ll only catch AIDS if you\u2019re black or you\u2019re gay.\u201d<br \/>\nSo don\u2019t worry America, you\u2019ll live a long life<br \/>\nKeep your eyes shut to the pain and the strife<br \/>\nThere are millions out there that\u2019ll die in a year<br \/>\nBut don\u2019t get excited, Don\u2019t shed a tear<br \/>\nJust keep livin\u2019 your lives like it doesn\u2019t exist<br \/>\n\u2018Til it hits you, then you\u2019ll be pissed<br \/>\nMaybe too late just to pick up and run<br \/>\nWith your daughter, your wife, your husband or son<br \/>\n\u2018Cause it\u2019s over in Europe, it\u2019s big in Japan<br \/>\nAfrica\u2019s got it and even Iran<br \/>\nSo come on home, open your eyes,<br \/>\nEveryone knows a young person who dies<\/p>\n<p>CHORUS: It\u2019s just another case of lilywhite lies, Lilywhite holy white<\/p>\n<p>Now if everyone you know is either scared to death or dyin\u2019<br \/>\nIt\u2019s time to ACT UP, \u2018cause they all killin\u2019 you with lyin\u2019<br \/>\nLike they care about your lover, they wanna find a cure<br \/>\nBut all the money\u2019s spent on weapons to fight a secret war<br \/>\nThey love to watch the numbers mount<br \/>\n\u2018Cause people of color and faggots and women don\u2019t count<br \/>\nWhen they round us up and jail us, it won\u2019t be new news<br \/>\nRemember fifty years ago, Hitler did it to the Jews<br \/>\nSo take it to the streets and write the President a letter<br \/>\nDenying there\u2019s a crisis won\u2019t make anyone better<br \/>\nHELP ME!<\/p>\n<p>CHORUS: It\u2019s just another case of lilywhite lies, Lilywhite holy white<\/p>\n<p>They love to watch the numbers mount<br \/>\nDon\u2019t wanna be a number<br \/>\nDon\u2019t wanna be what they want me to be<br \/>\nAnother number<\/p>\n<p>Frank H. 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I hear you don\u2019t like me \u2018cause I\u2019m a homo Heard rumours \u2018round you don\u2019t wish me well Say I\u2019m a devil child and goin\u2019 to hell You preach to crowds I\u2019m bad and wild Spread disease and rape your child Say if I don\u2019t repent it\u2019s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":true,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[14,15,643,1673],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15984","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-act-up","category-activism","category-ghost-signs-ghost-ads-other-phantoms","category-world-aids-day"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pXBbJ-49O","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fadingad.com\/fadingadblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15984","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fadingad.com\/fadingadblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fadingad.com\/fadingadblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fadingad.com\/fadingadblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fadingad.com\/fadingadblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15984"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.fadingad.com\/fadingadblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15984\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15988,"href":"https:\/\/www.fadingad.com\/fadingadblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15984\/revisions\/15988"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fadingad.com\/fadingadblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15984"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fadingad.com\/fadingadblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15984"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fadingad.com\/fadingadblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15984"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}