{"id":239,"date":"2006-04-24T10:47:09","date_gmt":"2006-04-24T00:47:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/machinegunkeyboard.com\/?p=239"},"modified":"2006-04-28T11:11:22","modified_gmt":"2006-04-28T01:11:22","slug":"vox-pop-changes-tune-against-bush","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/machinegunkeyboard.com\/?p=239","title":{"rendered":"Vox Pop changes tune against Bush"},"content":{"rendered":"

Pink<\/a> is trashing the fluffy blindness<\/a> of modern pop singers with her new song Dear Mr. President<\/em><\/a>:<\/p>\n

Dear Mr. President
\nCome take a walk with me
\nLet’s pretend we’re just two people and
\nYou’re not better than me
\nI’d like to ask you some questions if we can speak honestly<\/em><\/p>\n

What do you feel when you see all the homeless on the street
\nWho do you pray for at night before you go to sleep
\nWhat do you feel when you look in the mirror
\nAre you proud<\/em><\/p>\n

How do you sleep while the rest of us cry
\nHow do you dream when a mother has no chance to say goodbye
\nHow do you walk with your head held high
\nCan you even look me in the eye
\nAnd tell me why<\/em><\/p>\n

Dear Mr. President
\nWere you a lonely boy
\nAre you a lonely boy
\nAre you a lonely boy
\nHow can you say
\nNo child is left behind
\nWe’re not dumb and we’re not blind
\nThey’re all sitting in your cells
\nWhile you pave the road to hell<\/em><\/p>\n

What kind of father would take his own daughter’s rights away
\nAnd what kind of father might hate his own daughter if she were gay
\nI can only imagine what the first lady has to say
\nYou’ve come a long way from whiskey and cocaine<\/em><\/p>\n

How do you sleep while the rest of us cry
\nHow do you dream when a mother has no chance to say goodbye
\nHow do you walk with your head held high
\nCan you even look me in the eye<\/em><\/p>\n

Let me tell you bout hard work
\nMinimum wage with a baby on the way
\nLet me tell you bout hard work
\nRebuilding your house after the bombs took them away
\nLet me tell you bout hard work
\nBuilding a bed out of a cardboard box
\nLet me tell you bout hard work
\nHard work
\nHard work
\nYou don’t know nothing bout hard work
\nHard work
\nHard work
\nOh<\/em><\/p>\n

How do you sleep at night
\nHow do you walk with your head held high
\nDear Mr. President
\nYou’d never take a walk with me
\nWould you <\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\"image:<\/a>Neil Young<\/a> has never lost his fury at American fascism<\/a>. Young is due to release a new album, Living with War<\/a><\/em>, much of which will be available for free streaming<\/a> from his website<\/a>. Young has also started keeping a blog<\/a> where he discusses the development of his latest work and his rage at the murderous lying bastards in the White House. Let’s Impeach The President<\/a><\/em> leaves no illusions as to Young’s way forward for America.<\/p>\n

It wasn’t that long ago that breathing a word in America in opposition to the Shrubya neo-con policies of global conquest and oil domination was cause for death threats<\/a>; ask the Dixie Chicks<\/a>, who are still Not Ready To Make Nice<\/a><\/em>.<\/p>\n

America is again starting to embrace the concept that Your Flag Decal Won’t Get You Into Heaven Anymore<\/a><\/em>.<\/p>\n

-weez<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Pink is trashing the fluffy blindness of modern pop singers with her new song Dear Mr. President: Dear Mr. President Come take a walk with me Let’s pretend we’re just two people and You’re not better than me I’d like to ask you some questions if we can speak honestly What do you feel when […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-239","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/machinegunkeyboard.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/machinegunkeyboard.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/machinegunkeyboard.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/machinegunkeyboard.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/machinegunkeyboard.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=239"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/machinegunkeyboard.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/machinegunkeyboard.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=239"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/machinegunkeyboard.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=239"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/machinegunkeyboard.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=239"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}