Bending the Third Rail
Because We Should, We Can, We Do
Monday, January 23, 2006
Driving in
On the drive in to work this morning, I hear this on the radio:
O’ beautiful, for spacious skies
But now those skies are threatening
They’re beating plowshares into swords
For this tired old man that we elected king
Armchair warriors often fail
And we’ve been poisoned by these fairy tales
The lawyers clean up all details

The song is End of Innocence written by Don Henley. I thought about how appropriate that title is since we have attacked a country without provocation for the first time in our nation's history.

Henley wrote it in 1989 and those lyrics are more true today than when he wrote them. Actually, all of the old protest songs need to be dragged out of the closet, dusted off, and used again. The 60s and early 70s saw some great anti-establishment music. This may be a good day to fire up the old tunes.
Just to keep the 'tude going.
Written at 4:37 AM by Lynne.
2 comments
2 Comments:
Blogger Greyhair said...
End of the Innocence was co-written by Bruce Hornsby, my favorite performer of all-time.

The lyrics were never more timely.

Too bad.
9:10 AM  
Blogger Ms. Jan said...
Not to mention that Bruce writes and sings about other social issues. His biggest hit was "The Way It Is."
10:19 AM  
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