Phil Ochs made me cry today

[LittleClarkie]

Not to shabby for a dead guy...


Silent Soldiers on a silver screen

Framed in fantasies and dragged in dream

Unpaid actors of the mystery

The mad director knows that freedom will not make you free

And what's this got to do with me

I declare the war is over

It's over, it's over

Drums are drizzling on a grain of sand

Fading rhythms of a fading land

Prove your courage in the proud parade

Trust your leaders where mistakes are almost never made

And they're afraid that I'm afraid

I'm afraid the war is over

It's over, it's over

Angry artists painting angry signs

Use their vision just to blind the blind

Poisoned players of a grizzly game

One is guilty and the other gets the point to blame

Pardon me if I refrain

I declare the war is over

It's over, it's over

So do your duty, boys, and join with pride

Serve your country in her suicide

Find the flags so you can wave goodbye

But just before the end even treason might be worth a try

This country is to young to die

I declare the war is over

It's over, it's over

One-legged veterans will greet the dawn

And they're whistling marches as they mow the lawn

And the gargoyles only sit and grieve

The gypsy fortune teller told me that we'd been deceived

You only are what you believe

I believe the war is over

It's over, it's over

[AlienGirl]

1. That is one of my favorite songs ever!

[LittleClarkie]

2. I've always loved Phil, and this is one of my favorites too

of his. Another is "I Ain't Marchin' Any More"

But the lyrics are so DAMNED appropriate to our time and place in this song it hit me right between the eyes. He could be writing about RIGHT NOW.

The mark of a good writer, I reckon.

[regnaD kciN]

3. I'm amazed...

...that someone as young as you even knows who Phil Ochs was. I thought only old fogies like me had ever heard of him.

[AlienGirl]

4. I only look young! LOL

[LittleClarkie]

5. Aw heck I'm even too young to have heard of him.

But I went through a folk period at one point, and Phil Ochs is essential listening.