You Haven't Done Nothin'

No comments on this amazing, funky number prompt me to throw my two cents into the mix. Stevie Wonder created the perfect protest song with this entry. To me it has always been a generic protest song in many ways but since this song was released in the Nixon era, I believe Stevie was singing to him. To this day, when I hear this song and sing along, I think of that $%#@! Nixon.

Now read the lyrics again and think of our current president. “and we are sick and tired of hearing your song”. Great, timeless stuff. I think Stevie Wonder is the one of the top 10 most important songwriters of the last 50 years.

Isn't there a comment type for corrections to mistakes in the lyrics? (Didn't there use to be?)

Anyway, there's a mistake in the lyrics. In the first verse after the first Jackson Five chorus, the line "But when mislead who knows a person's mind / Can turn as cold as ice" should say "misled" instead of "mislead". Stevie clearly sings a short "e".

Confusing the verbs "lead" and "led" is a common typo, because of the noun "lead" (meaning the metal) which looks like the first and sounds like the second.

Hope this helps. It's an awesome and timeless song.

A song that applies to the many empty promises made by Politicians, back when Stevie wrote this and sadly nothing has changed.

Why do you keep on making us hear your song Telling us how you are changing right from wrong 'Cause if you really want to hear our views "You haven't done nothing"!

I could hear this song again as a slander against Bush. And the Black-Eyed Peas could join Stevie this time.

It's kind of amazing... here I am reading these lyrics 5 years after the last comments - and the lyrics could still be ripped from the headlnes! I am sad to say that I don't think that Stevie Wonder would apply these words to the current regime... which only goes to show that sometimes the song is much greater than the singer.