One of the best songs ever written. Ever. I only wish the sad truths in the songs were not real, this song makes me so angry.
"a bullet ensuring the right to life
whizzed past his kid and his wife
and knocked his glasses right off of his face
And the blood poured off the pulpit,
Yeah, and the blood poured down the picket lines,
And the hatred was immediate,
Yeah, and the vengeance was divine,
And they went and stuffed God down the barrel of a gun, and after him
they stuffed his only son"
-my blood boils whenever it gets to this part, for so many reasons, the crescendo makes it feel like a Crusade is being unleashed again and all of us non-violent Christians have to bury our faces in our hands in embarrassment because we would never do that shit.
also the sort of juxtaposition of ineffective voting and MLK is pretty powerful, given that he called out the government for promoting violence and ended up dying for advocating peace. Seriously, what can men do against such reckless hate.
One of the best songs ever written. Ever. I only wish the sad truths in the songs were not real, this song makes me so angry. "a bullet ensuring the right to life whizzed past his kid and his wife and knocked his glasses right off of his face And the blood poured off the pulpit, Yeah, and the blood poured down the picket lines, And the hatred was immediate, Yeah, and the vengeance was divine, And they went and stuffed God down the barrel of a gun, and after him they stuffed his only son" -my blood boils whenever it gets to this part, for so many reasons, the crescendo makes it feel like a Crusade is being unleashed again and all of us non-violent Christians have to bury our faces in our hands in embarrassment because we would never do that shit. also the sort of juxtaposition of ineffective voting and MLK is pretty powerful, given that he called out the government for promoting violence and ended up dying for advocating peace. Seriously, what can men do against such reckless hate.