you've got covert actionThe more things change, the more things stay the same. If anyone would like to contribute links to this, feel free.
prejudiced to extremes
you've got primitive cunning
and high tech means
you've got eyes everywhere
but people see through you
you've got good manipulators
got your store of dupes
you've got the idiot clamour
of your lobby groups
you like to play on fears
but people see through you
you've got instant communication
instant data tabulation
you've got forces of occupation
but you dont get capitulation
cause people see through you
you've got the sounding brass
you've got the triumph of the will
you do what you want to
and we pay the bills
you hype the need for sacrifice
but people see through you
you've got the anti-matter language
contrived to conceal
you've been lying so long
you dont know what's real
you're a figment of your own imagination
and people see through you
you've got lip service tributaries
you've got death fetish mercenaries
you hold the tickets to the cemetaries
you're BIG and BAD and SCARY
but people see through you
Bruce Cockburn
"People See Through You" on World of Wonders (1986)
Tuesday, March 27, 2007
you cant fool all of the people all of the time
(only one third, apparently)
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Bruce Cockburn rule. Stealing Fire is on my 10 Albums for the desert island list.
This stanza from his song Nicaragua moved me greatly as I sat on an airfield in Tegucigalpa Honduras in 1985 listening on my new-fangled Sony Walkman.
Sandino in his tom mix hat
Gazes from billboards and coins
"Sandino vive in la lucha por la paz"
Sandino of the shining dream
Who stood up to the U.S. Marines --
Now Washington panics at U2 shots of "Cuban-style" latrines
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