"..music in the cafes at night and revolution in the air.."

[kentuck]

Can't you just feel it? This nation cannot make it to November. Something has to give. It gets worse by the minute. Someone, somehow, must restore the trust in this government. It is gone, from my viewpoint... :(

[rumguy]

1. Then he started in to dealing with slaves

and something inside him died.

She had to sell off everything they owned and froze up inside.

[bushwakker]

2. "...the past was close behind..."

I've never felt LESS safe than right now.

[stellanoir]

3. so many of the seemingly slumbering populous. . .

just disconnect. . .so many scandals. . .so much obfuscation and obstruction of justice. . .such lame assed pseudo intelligence. . .so many high crimes and misdemeanors. . .

"tangled up in blue. . ."

the other Dylan line that's been running through my mind for quite some time is from

"what's a sweatheart like you. . .doin' in a dump like this"

"patriotism is the last refuge to which a scoundrel clings. . ."

yet real patriotism is not to be misconstrued with this overzealous nationalism that we've been barraged with for the past few years.

Ughhhh

[G_j]

4. "Who is going to take away

his license to kill?"

[bowens43]

5. Nationalism

"Nationalism is an infantile disease. It is the measles of mankind."
-
A. Einstein

[Hubert Flottz]

6. Idiot wind blowin' every time he moves his mouth;

Someone's got it in for shrub, they're planting stories in the press
Whoever it is he wished they'd cut it out but when they will he can only guess.

[rumguy]

7. You hurt the ones that I love best and cover up the truth with lies

One day you'll be in the ditch flies buzzing 'round your eyes

[Zen Democrat]

8. Masters of War

Come you masters of war
You that build all the guns
You that build the death planes
You that build all the bombs
You that hide behind walls
You that hide behind desks
I just want you to know
I can see through your masks.

You that never done nothin'
But build to destroy
You play with my world
Like it's your little toy
You put a gun in my hand
And you hide from my eyes
And you turn and run farther
When the fast bullets fly.

Like Judas of old
You lie and deceive
A world war can be won
You want me to believe
But I see through your eyes
And I see through your brain
Like I see through the water
That runs down my drain.

You fasten all the triggers
For the others to fire
Then you set back and watch
When the death count gets higher
You hide in your mansion'
As young people's blood
Flows out of their bodies
And is buried in the mud.

You've thrown the worst fear
That can ever be hurled
Fear to bring children
Into the world
For threatening my baby
Unborn and unnamed
You ain't worth the blood
That runs in your veins.

How much do I know
To talk out of turn
You might say that I'm young
You might say I'm unlearned
But there's one thing I know
Though I'm younger than you
That even Jesus would never
Forgive what you do.

Let me ask you one question
Is your money that good
Will it buy you forgiveness
Do you think that it could
I think you will find
When your death takes its toll
All the money you made
Will never buy back your soul.

And I hope that you die
And your death'll come soon
I will follow your casket
In the pale afternoon
And I'll watch while you're lowered
Down to your deathbed
And I'll stand over your grave
'Til I'm sure that you're dead.