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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
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.
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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.
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
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