Friday Night Therapy

[garybeck]

Politics, the war, the election,,, is all driving me nuts and I need some therapy. Anyone care to join me? Here is the prescription.

1. Insert two beers or more into digestive system. (or other alcoholic beverage)

2. Insert this CD into your stereo: NEIL YOUNG, LIVING WITH WAR.

3. Play loud.



Ahh.



I haven't listened to this album in a while and I just plopped it in and it freaking rocks. It might not have been in the top ten when it got released but I would hope it gets more recognition over time as one of the best anti-war and political albums.

Crank it up!



LIVING WITH WAR
I'm living with war everyday
I'm living with war in my heart everyday
I'm living with war right now

And when the dawn breaks I see my fellow man
And on the flat-screen we kill and we're killed again
And when the night falls, I pray for peace
Try to remember peace (visualize)

I join the multitudes
I raise my hand in peace
I never bow to the laws of the thought police
I take a holy vow
To never kill again
To never kill again

I'm living with war in my heart
I'm living with war in my heart and my mind
I'm living with war right now

Don't take no tidal wave
Don't take no mass grave
Don't take no smokin' gun
To show how the west was won
But when the curtain falls, I pray for peace
Try to remember peace (visualize)

In the crowded streets
In the big hotels
In the mosques and the doors of the old museum
I take a holy vow
To never kill again
Try to remember peace

The rocket's red glare
Bombs bursting in air
Give proof through the night,
That Our flag is still there

I'm living with war everyday
I'm living with war in my heart everyday
I'm living with war right now.




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LET'S IMPEACH THE PRESIDENT
Let's impeach the President for lying
And misleading our country into war
Abusing all the power that we gave him
And shipping all our money out the door

Who's the man who hired all the criminals
The White House shadows who hide behind closed doors
They bend the facts to fit with their new stories
Of why we have to send our men to war

Let's impeach the President for spying
On citizens inside their own homes
Breaking every law in the country
By tapping our computers and telephones

What if Al Qaeda blew up the levees
Would New Orleans have been safer that way
Sheltered by our government's protection
Or was someone just not home that day'

Flip - Flop
Flip - Flop
Flip - Flop
Flip - Flop

Let's impeach the president for hijacking
Our religion and using it to get elected
Dividing our country into colors
And still leaving black people neglected

Thank god he's cracking down on steroids
Since he sold his old baseball team
There's lots of people looking at big trouble
But of course our president is clean.

Thank God

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THE RESTLESS CONSUMER
The people have heard the news
The people have spoken
You may not like what they said
But they weren't jokin'

Way out on the desert sands
Lies a desperate lover
They call her the "Queen of Oil"
So much to discover

Don't need no ad machine
Telling me what I need
Don't need no Madison Avenue War
Don't need no more boxes I can see

Covered in flags but I can't see them on TV

Don't need no more lies
Don't need no more lies
Don't need no more lies
Don't need no more lies

......

The restless consumer flies
Around the world each day
With such an appetite for taste and grace

......

People from around the world
Need someone to listen
We're starving and dying from our disease
We need your medicine
How do you pay for war
And leave us dyin' ?
When you could do so much more
You're not even tryin'

......

Don't need no TV ad
Tellin' me how sick I am
Don't want to know how many people are like me
Don't need no dizziness
Don't need no nausea
Don't need no side effects like diarrhea or sexual death

Don't need no more lies
Don't need no more lies
Don't need no more lies
Don't need no more lies

The restless consumer lies
Asleep in her hotel
With such an appetite
For anything that sells

......

A hundred voices from a hundred lands
Need someone to listen
People are dying here and there
They don't see the world the way you do
There's no mission accomplished here
Just death to thousands

A hundred voices from a hundred lands
Cry out in unison

Don't need no terror squad
Don't want no damned Jihad
Blowin' themselves away in my hood
But we don't talk to them
So we don't learn from them
Hate don't negotiate with Good

Don't need no more lies
Don't need no more lies
Don't need no more lies
Don't need no more lies

The restless comsumer flies
Around the world each day
With such an appetite for efficiency
.....
And pace ......

Don't need no more lies

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rest of lyrics:
http://www.human-highway.org/lyrics/lyrics-47.html

[vickitulsa]

1. How did I miss this album?

Oh yeah, that's right -- they're not "albums" anymore -- they're "CDs"! Tells ya right there that I'm still stuck back in the "After The Gold Rush" days, I guess! :D

I absolutely LOVE these lyrics, though!

Neil always did have an incredible talent and a very special way with words. His musical talent is formidable, too! Little wonder he has always been one of my favorites.

I'll go read the rest of the lyrics, but when was this "CD" released?

(Thanks for posting this. I'm diggin' the therapy on this Friday night, too. It's okay if I substitute "something else" for the alcohol, though, right?) ;)

[garybeck]

3. cds vs albums

o 'cmon :) i'm staring at a stack of LPs from when I was ih high school, collecting dust. i still have my turntable but it's not even connected to my stereo...

i just called it a cd because that's what it is :) to answer your question , it came out a couple years ago. I think it was timed for the 2006 election.

[DaveJ]

2. Unfortunately I spent my CD money on beer.

ETA 3h 31m.