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Saturday, November 6, 2010

Living in the Land of the Wasteland of the Free



With thanks to Donna for bringing this to my attention this week.

We got preachers dealing in politics and diamond mines
and their speech is growing increasingly unkind
They say they are Christ's disciples
but they don't look like Jesus to me
and it feels like I am living in the wasteland of the free

We got politicians running races on corporate cash
Now don't tell me they don't turn around and kiss them peoples' ass
You may call me old-fashioned
but that don't fit my picture of a true democracy
and it feels like I am living in the wasteland of the free

We got CEO's making two hundred times the workers' pay
but they'll fight like hell against raising the minimum wage
and If you don't like it, mister, they'll ship your job
to some third-world country 'cross the sea
and it feels like I am living in the wasteland of the free

Living in the wasteland of the free
where the poor have now become the enemy
Let's blame our troubles on the weak ones
Sounds like some kind of Hitler remedy
Living in the wasteland of the free

We got little kids with guns fighting inner city wars
So what do we do, we put these little kids behind prison doors
and we call ourselves the advanced civilization
that sounds like crap to me
and it feels like I am living in the wasteland of the free





How do you not hear this and think of us?




Try to have a nice weekend, y'all.

2 comments:

Donna. W said...

She wrote that while Bush was president and she was still living in Kansas City. So many of the modern folk songs seem more relavant today than they did ten or twenty years ago when they were written.

Mo Rage said...

I had no idea she lived herein town, yet alone when she wrote it. I just liked it and knew it to be appropriate for us now, unfortunately.

thanks again,

mr