"Day after tomorrow"...

[Bigmack]

Just sitting here listening to Tom Waits' version of his great anti-war song
- crying like a fucking baby - thinking about the kids I knew 45 years ago
who never got any older... their lives pissed away by cynical politicians for
crass political reasons. Thinking too, of the kids who won't get any older
in the double clusterfuck the crass politicians have gotten us into this time.

How can any of those people... somebody as seemingly sensitive as Obama, even...
send young men and women to die for nothing?

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I got your letter today
And I miss you all so much, here
I can't wait to see you all
And I'm counting the days, dear
I still believe that there's gold
At the end of the world
And I'll come home
To Illinois
On the day after tomorrow

It is so hard
And it's cold here
And I'm tired of taking orders
And I miss old Rockford town
Up by the Wisconsin border
But I miss you won't believe
Shoveling snow and raking leaves
And my plane will touch tomorrow
On the day after tomorrow

I close my eyes
Every night
And I dream that I can hold you
They fill us full of lies
Everyone buys
About what it means to be a soldier
I still don't know how I'm supposed to feel
About all the blood that's been spilled
Look out on the street
Get me back home
On the day after tomorrow

You can't deny
The other side
Don't want to die
Any more than we do
What I'm trying to say,
Is don't they pray
To the same God that we do?
Tell me, how does God choose?
Whose prayers does he refuse?
Who turns the wheel?
And who throws the dice
On the day after tomorrow?

Mmmmmmm...
I'm not fighting
For justice
I am not fighting
For freedom
I am fighting
For my life
And another day
In the world here
I just do what I've been told
You're just the gravel on the road
And the one's that are lucky
One's come home
On the day after tomorrow

And the summer
It too will fade
And with it comes the winter's frost, dear
And I know we too are made
Of all the things that we have lost here
I'll be twenty-one today
I've been saving all my pay
And my plane will touch down
On the day after tomorrow
And my plane it will touch down
On the day after tomorrow

[winyanstaz]

1. K & R..... I hear you loud and clear....

Who will be the last to die for all the lies?
Bring them home now.

[Blue_In_AK]

2. Linda Thompson also did a nice cover of that song

on her album "Versatile Heart." It puts a lump in my throat every time I hear it.

[Bigmack]

3. Joan Baez has it too...

on her new album.

Ms. Bigmack loves Joan, but I find her stuff too ethereal. The new album is produced by Steve Earle, who does some vocals and guitar, and I think it brought Joan into our world.

[Blue_In_AK]

4. That might be worth checking out.

I'm a big fan of Steve Earle, but, like you, I find Joan a bit cloying (although my husband loves her). With Steve's help, she might be a bit more edgy.

[dixiegrrrrl]

5. I know just how you feel, Mack....

I feel we have been...erased.
All the dead, in vain.
All the protests and changes in the law, in vain.
All the lessons learned, in vain.

Even if we, the ones of that period in time, had spent every single hour of every single day,
in total vigilance of the political process from then until now, we could not force those coming up
behind us to do the same. Too many were complacent, too much needed to be watched by too few.