What About Me

[GreatCaesarsGhost]

36 years ago and nothing has changed.

Quicksilver Messenger Service


(Released December of 1970)
You poisoned my sweet water.
You cut down my green trees.
The food you fed my children
Was the cause of their disease.
My world is slowly fallin' down
And the airs not good to breathe.
And those of us who care enough,
We have to do something.......
(Chorus)
Oh.......oh What you gonna do about me?
Oh.......oh What you gonna do about me?
Your newspapers,
They just put you on.
They never tell you
The whole story.
They just put your
Young ideas down.
I was wonderin' could this be the end
Of your pride and glory?
(Chorus)
I work in your factory.
I study in your schools.
I fill your penitentiaries.
And your military too!
And I feel the future trembling,
As the word is passed around.
"If you stand up for what you do believe,
Be prepared to be shot down."
(Chorus)
And I feel like a stranger
In the land where I was born
And I live like an outlaw.
An' I'm always on the run..........................
An Im always getting busted
And I got to take a stand........
I believe the revolution
Must be mighty close at hand.......................
(Chorus)
I smoke marijuana
But I cant get behind your wars.
And most of what I do believe
Is against most of your laws
I'm a fugitive from injustice
But I'm goin' to be free.
Cause your rules and regulations
They dont do the thing for me
(Chorus)
And I feel like a stranger
In the land where I was born
And I live just like an outlaw.
An' I'm always on the run.

[OwnedByFerrets]

1. Great song then, apropos now.

[acmejack]

2. Not a thing cause the same bastards been doing the same things.

Just have a lot more sell outs now. Guys who swore they were on our side then when it was there turn to fight in overseas and get killed for an uncaring populace have now become that uncaring populace. They have slapped the equivalent of the "America love it or leave it" bumper stickers on their cars. I am constantly dismayed by the fuckers, and that is what they are, who have sold out the cause.

We have been taken over by a group of people whose lives weren't interrupted by the war and another group who said screw you to the shared values we learned the hard way during those times. The values people paid for with beatings while the "whole world watched" outside the Democratic Convention in Chicago, while th police beat the crap out of people. People tell me I shouldn't despair, I'd like to know why the hell not?

The best news I see here is people celebrating how the Clintons shall save us from evil...

[sweetheart]

3. frozen in time

the betrayed citizen realizes that the grandparents,
the parents, themself, their kids, and grandkids will
read the same poem and wonder what happened, that how
such a heartfelt demonstration brought about naught but
the hollow reconsumption of retro as corporate.