Neil Young

bluelight

Wrote this....ten fifteen years ago.A song about someone who does not understand anything.

It is a tragic song.Most tragic is "The American" out acting without really knowing why and not understanding...how...









I used to watch "Highway Patrol"
Whittlin' with my knife
But the thought never struck me
I'd be black and white for life
I was raised on law and order
I a community of strive
Became a restless boarder
And I never took a wife

I went lookin' for Khadafy
Aboard Air Force One
But I never did find him
And the C.I.A. said "Son,
You'll never be a hero
Your flyin' days are done
It's time for you to go home now
Stop sniffin' that smokin' gun"

I was travellin' with my family
In the Mideast late one night
In the hotel all was quiet
The kids were out like little lights
Then the street was filled with jeeps
There was an explosion to the right
They chanted "Death to America"
I was feelin' like a fight

So I ran downstairs
And out into the street
Someone kicked me in the belly
Someone else kissed my feet
I was Rambo in the disco
I was shootin' to the beat
When they burned me in effigy
My vacation was complete





Bluelight

toddsmack2k

digitalwanderer

It was the last concert me and my wife went to, she was about 5 months pregnant but refused to miss one of her favorite artists.

merry

It has been in my mind for the past few weeks - a Bob Dylan song, With God on Our Side, from 1964:

But now we got weapons
Of the chemical dust
If fire them we're forced to
Then fire them we must
One push of the button
And a shot the world wide
And you never ask questions
When God's on your side.

(Full text)

I know this will annoy some of our American friends, but I admire Americans for the courage of saying things like this.

Smoothdrive

What courage ? It's America..not Iraq..Americans can say what they want.