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| Steve Miller Band – Living in the U.S.A. Lyrics
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@[Shep420:24540] For those who don't hear the music think the dancers' crazy. Depends on 'where' you're looking at it from. Cynical for those in denial and ignoring reality, and realistic for those who were actually there. Of course the say about the 60's is if you remember the 60's you weren't there! You got to admit it's a great song and sold lots of copies. Oh, I remember school/high school going every day in beautiful Santa Barbara/Goleta. The contrast was stark! The beautiful land and nature, and the concentration, forced labor of San Marcos High School of 2200 kids I didn't know (to begin with). No, kids didn't like school! And then the school wide meeting for no know reason at all. Assasination. You'd be well to visit the feeling of cynical and being pissed, through and through seeing you're friends and neighbor die one after another and you know you're next up to be sent to Nam. Americans and their addiction to optimism is the reason people didn't wake up and just followed their leaders like lemming to such a stupid, waste called war. And what for democracy? HA! Open your eyes. The Vietnamese would fight that war for over a thousand years and would eventually win? Why? Because they wanted to be like us, free, and have our constitution. So we sold them/Ho Chi Ming arms...for years. 420 and a steady job, huh? lol What we have to be grateful for today are those who paved the way in the 60's and (early) 70's and that's not just the in the U.S. |
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| Steve Miller Band – Living in the U.S.A. Lyrics
| 8 years ago
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@[drpoundsign:24539] Me thinks you've been influenced to make too much of the "Radicals". All sorts of people weren't happy with LBJ's party nor Nixon's party (dems, and repbuglicans). 71 & 72 things were beginning to simmer down, and the big change was like in 67 to 70. It was especially chaos if you were of draft age. It was all crazy, maddening war against the people, the young, and it sucked year after year. What we had was us, our music our unity. The parade of lying Presidents was relentless and more and more people knew it. Sucked big money - your and our future. No recovery from that, and maybe that was the biggest part of it all - to suck the life blood out of democracy, freedom and the middle class - just like today! Keep the up and coming down and falling...as in dead. Same sides, the same lessons not learned- that's 50 plus years of crap. One cover up after another. How do you spell conspiracy? "Status quo" or "denial"? |
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