Profound Song Lyrics, IMHO

[Liberalynn]

"All of the treasures we own.
God Bless the House, the Car, and The TV.
They've built us a prison without any locks.
And meanwhile the Men Who Claim God, on their side
Spit out their message, Sell Me a Ride,
While we look for idols inside a fashion magazine."

Also some other lines:

The Kind of eerily prophetic: "There's a wall to keep us in, there's a wall to keep us out."

"Wake up! You can't want your children to pay for your sins."

http://www.lyricstime.com/rick-springfield-tear-it-all-down-lyrics.html

This song is from the album, "Rock of Life" released by Rick Springfield in 1990. Unfortunately I think it is only available on tape and has not been put on a C.D.

Although Springfied has been often been dismissed by most as a "teen idol", that "soap guy" or that dude that sang Jessie's Girl," he has actually wrote some pretty amazingly politically profound lyrics. Others include "Dance This World Away" about the Nuclear Arms Race (Tao, 1985), "Walking on the Edge" also about the Arms Race, (Tao), and "Gold Fever" about unchecked corporate greed, (Wait For Night, 1976).

He also was part of Australia's version of the U.S.O and toured Vietnam with his fellow band members in the sixties.

I have always found him to be incredibly talented and intelligent, and not just handsome. He was born good looking and that shouldn't be held against him. :P

His lyrics often say what I am thinking or feeling. The songs I've mentioned often reduce me to tears of frustration about the current state of the world and seemingly dimming prospects for the future.

[Aristus]

1. Here are some good lyrics:

"The Last Time I Cried"

The last time I cried, I was sitting home
And it was deep in the night,
Staring at the shadows and the flickering lights,
Giving all that I had, to take them away,
Giving all that I had, to make them pay;

The last time I cried, I could see the people
Long ago in the rain,
Waiting as the soldiers put them all on a train,
And the hands on the bars, the eyes full of tears,
And the word is the same, for a thousand years,

Eli Eli Lama, Oh Lord, you have forsaken me,
Eli Eli Lama, Oh Lord, you have forsaken me;

The last time I cried, I could not believe it
When I held on a face,
Staring at a soldier with his gun in the rain,
It was the face of a child, my child here asleep,
And the soldier who smiled, the man was me,

Eli Eli Lama, Oh Lord, you have forsaken me,
Eli Eli Lama, Oh why have you forsaken me?

Eli Eli Lama, Oh Lord, you have forsaken me,

The last time I cried, the last time I cried,
The last time I cried, the last time I cried,
The last time I cried, the last time I cried,
The last time I cried, the last time I cried,
The last time.

[Liberalynn]

2. Those are good!