Almost Independence Day.

[bleever]

This Fourth of July, love for my country and its promise has me thinking of another Independence Day: January 20, 2009.

So one of my favorite songs, which I always make a point of listening to each year on this date, has special meaning to me this year.

We all know that the end of this administration won't be the end of the damage they've caused, and set into motion. But it's a place to begin again.


So hang in there, friends, patriots, and countrymen and women; the day is coming.




Almost Independence Day -- Van Morrison


I can hear them calling way from Oregon,
I can hear them calling way from Oregon,
And it's almost Independence Day.

Me and my lady, we go steppin',
We go steppin' way out on Chinatown
All to buy some Hong Kong silver
And to wade in Russian River
We go out on the, out on the town tonight.

I can hear the fireworks,
I can hear the fireworks,
I can hear the fireworks,
Up and down the, up and down the San Francisco Bay.
Up and down the, up and down the San Francisco Bay.
I can hear them echoing
I can hear, I can hear them echoing
Up and down the, up and down the San Francisco Bay.

I can see the boats in the harbor (way across the harbor)
Lights shining out (lights shining out)
And a cool, cool night
And a cool, cool night across the harbor
I can hear the fireworks
I can hear the people, people shouting out
I can hear the people shouting out (up and down the line)
And it's almost Independence Day.

I can see the lights way out in the harbor
And the cool, and the cool, and the cool night
And the cool, and the cool, and the cool night breeze
And I feel the cool night breeze
And I feel, feel, feel the cool night breeze
And the boats go by.

And it's almost Independence Day
And it's almost, and it's almost Independence Day.
Way up and down the line
Way up and down the line...

[Cha]

1. Happy Independence Day,

bleever!

[bleever]

2. And to you, zidzi.

Our last one under this illegal and radically destructive regime.

[Cha]

3. I can't be it's finally coming to pass..

[bleever]

5. It was inevitable,

but it seems like it's taken forever.

[Rick Myers]

4. I can smell the cordite wafting thru the city...

Smells like... The inside of a tank!!!