I Want it Louder (Make the Revolution Beautiful)

Background

From songwriter Luke Wallace:

This song was written during an old growth forest protest in an isolated valley on Pacheedaht Territory known today as Vancouver Island. I was without a guitar for most of my time there, so I resorted to writing songs a capella. They had to be easily learned and repeated so that we could sing them while working, digging, marching, etc. This song is an ode to the timeless saying from Toni Cade Bambara that “The role of the artist is to make the revolution irresistible.”

The C part “turn to my love” is a calling from the earth to its humans, as an answer to the
section preceding it “Who you gonna turn to?”

This song is to be sung with a loose, empowered enthusiasm, as if marching in the streets.