MichelleM

Alone Without You...Finally!

Fri, 17 Aug 2007 19:05:59 -0700

Week 3

Sun, 15 Jul 2007 11:44:58 -0700

The Mary Morello and Cindy Sheehan Show [week 3]

Cindy: Right now we are on a caravan walk for humanity and accountability. We started off yesterday morning (July 10th) in Crawford, Texas at Camp Casey and we are in Louisiana right now heading to New Orleans. When we get to New Orleans we are going to be going to the Ninth Ward where the policies of the Bush Administration have been disastrous for so many people. We are heading to Washington D.C. and we are going to stop at Fort Banning, where the school of the assassins…I mean the school of the Americas is where they train assassins and death squads. We are going to highlight torture there. What we are doing along the way, too is collecting money for the Iraqi refugees, there are millions thrown out all over the Middle East, which is causing a humanitarian crisis and there are hospitals in Iraq(like we talked about last week) that don't have the proper medical care. You know, where cancer rates are so high and so yea, we are doing that along the way. We are ending up in New York City on the 29th to have a Summer of Love concert to raise more money and more awareness for what our country does to other people across the world in our quest for this corporate imperialism. So we are just having a good time along the way and I have also announced that if Nancy Pelosi, speaker of the house, doesn't put impeachment on the table by the time we get to Washington D.C. on July 23rd, that I will run against her in California for Congress.

Mary: Are people joining you along the way?

Cindy: We had a rally last night in Houston. The Organizers there only had 48 hours to put it together, it was wonderful. We have a caravan of seven cars right now there are heading to New Orleans and we are asking people to join us. Join us in the cities we are going to, join us in this caravan for, like I said, humanity and accountability and they can go to www.campcaseypeaceinstitute.org for updates what we are doing and for a schedule of our routes.

Mary: Well that is great! You know that lady from Illinois who lost both legs and ran for congress? Well I saw her on a T.V. program the other day and they asked if she was running for Congress again and she's not going to because she is the head of the veterans for Illinois and I really admire her. She can do a lot more here in Illinois than if she was in congress because she said she would be kept back from doing what she wanted to.

Cindy: Tammy Duckworth is her name.

Mary: Really? Oh well she does a lot of great work in Illinois. Anyways..what else is there?

Cindy: What did you want to talk about today, Mary?

Mary: Oooohh…One thing I wanted to talk about is this horrible propaganda machine we have coming out, it's like Goebbels in Washington and I don't know who runs it. It's like that skinny girl who went to jail on that T.V. program that finally ended-

Cindy: Oh, Paris Hilton?

Mary: Yea, it seems like they keep pushing things, these little trite things to interest people and here we having these people dying, you know, and more being killed. I saw a general talking from Iraq about how the surge is succeeding and that is a big lie because more people have been killed the last few months than were killed previously in Iraq.

Cindy: This has been the worst quarter for American vets and Iraqi vets too, which you know, when we talked about how awful things are we hardly ever talked about the Iraqi deaths. And I get e mails from soldiers all the time saying "Don't believe what the news says, it's not successful, it's a nightmare."

Mary: Well one of my friends who is a Palestinian, she went to Jordan, and I talked to her yesterday- and the refugees, a lot of people are coming out of Iraq and the one place it's safe to be is in the airport in Baghdad because it's guarded so closely. They fly to Jordan and they do think that a lot of them are doctors but then they do fly back to Iraq- they're going in and out. I wanted to know like in Syria and Iraq how the refugees were doing and they have enough Palestinian refugees without adding to them. In The Nation there's this thing about immigrants coming to the US and our limiting the number who come in.

Cindy: 7,000 this year. Iraqi refugees? 7,000- after we created this humanitarian crisis.

Mary: And we're so suspicious of everybody. It's ridiculous, isn't it? Tom, some place he was, got pulled aside – I think it was Europe, but then they let him go through. What are you going to do? I've always thought that my phone was tapped but I've always said that whatever anybody wanted to know, I would tell them.

Cindy: Exactly! I say my life is an open book but it still makes me mad that they can do this to us without a warrant or without probable cause. This is what bothers me when I go through airports- if I have a little tube of toothpaste or a little bottle of lotion that's not in a plastic bag, that does not give them probable cause to think that I'm a terrorist. It really makes me mad that they can look through my things without a warrant, that they can listen to my phone calls or they can read my e-mails without getting a warrant. That is a basic right of not only Americans, but human beings- a right to privacy. If they don't have probable cause- if they do have probable cause, then they get a warrant to check these things out.

Mary: When I went to Maui I took a razor and scissors, so they told me to put it in what I checked through so I did. And then I buy those little toothpastes things in the drugstores. We didn't have any trouble coming or going. In our country now we just don't have freedom and we are not a democracy. So what I don't understand is how they haven't cancelled this president and say that other countries should become democratic. My God this thing makes me so angry because the last was elected through an absolutely legal election into power and so there was no reason why we shouldn't have that now!

(Mary speaks of Iraq and Palestine but the connection became too fuzzy to understand)

Cindy: What's also amazing to me is when there was a cease fire between Israel and Palestine and after so many months of the cease fire an Israeli got killed and they were talking about "oh my God they broke the cease fire" and within that same period over 200 Palestinians were killed. There was not an outcry because Palestinians were being killed. When are we going to realize that every human life is valuable – not just an American or Israeli life?

Mary: We've got a lot to do to change the world so we'll work on it, okay?

Cindy: One day at a time.

Mary: Oh! And happy birthday! Everybody's been telling me it's Cindy's birthday!

Cindy: Oh thank you! Well it was actually yesterday when we were supposed to have our call. I was 50 years old yesterday.

Mary: Tom told me it was your birthday but he thought it was today.

Cindy: Awesome sweetie- bye bye

Mary: Best of luck to you- bye bye.

Momma M (week 2 re-post)

Fri, 06 Jul 2007 15:18:54 -0700

Friday, July 06, 2007 The Mary Morello and Cindy Sheehan Show [week 2]

The Mary Morello and Cindy Sheehan Show [week 2]

Mary: Today we are going to talk about the hospital and I wanted to talk a little about…are we on?

Cindy: I think I wanted to switch gears a little today if that is okay?

Mary: Sure

Cindy: so why don't you start Mary.

Mary: I believe we are responsible for the Iraqi's health since we are responsible for everything that happened. Like originally when the U.S. Air Force went over Iraq, they bombed the hospitals and then they destroyed ambulances coming in and now some people are trying to bring medical help from Syria, it hardly ever gets through. If it is a U.S. person driving in the frontier or something, then the U.S. troops are happy here on American turf, but sometimes they just fire and those people are just gone.

Cindy: Some conservatives say that we are not responsible for the Iraqi people because we've given them democracy and we've given them institutions, which is wrong like you said Mary. We've destroyed their country, we've killed almost a million people, just in this illegal invasion and occupation, before less than twelve years of sanctions that were imposed by Bill Clinton and the UN two million Iraqi people died and over a million of them were children.

Mary: Right

Cindy: And since the first Gulf War, the incidences of leukemia and cancer are going up almost 300% and children are being born with deformities. But of course there are more instances of spontaneous abortions and babies being born with deformities and other birth defects and hospitals all over Iraq are suffering from lack of medicine, lack of equipment, and lack of doctors. A lot of doctors were killed, like you said, in the initial invasion. Hospitals and doctors were targeted.

Mary: This one doctor is using a garage where he does his medical practices. They don't have any anesthetics and can you imagine trying to help someone and fix them up and there is no way that you can knock them out. They have to just accept that there is no anesthetic?

Cindy: First of all, you know this whole occupation and invasion was a war crime, crimes against humanity, crimes against the Geneva convention, HOWEVER if a country is occupying another country momentarily, one of their responsibilities is to take care of the occupied people.

Mary: right

Cindy: And that is not being done, in fact the opposite is being done. Children can not go to school, there is a humanitarian crisis.

Mary: People don't even want to come out of their houses and then sometimes soldiers go into the houses and just kill the people or I think once in a while they give a specific time to leave the house and if they don't then that's it. I think about it sometimes.. well, I don't believe in war anyway, but where one group is shooting at another and it is just devastation of a country. It just doesn't make any sense.

Cindy: Well, as in all war, who suffers the most are usually the mothers and the children an

d families. This is getting a little off the subject and could be used for an entire hour, but war being used as a tool for diplomacy is immoral because so many people suffer from it.

Mary: What did you want to talk about that was different from what we had planned?

Cindy: I just wanted to tell people to go to iraqhelpnow.org to donate money and medical supplies to hospitals in Iraq.

Mary: Who will bring them in?

Cindy: They can be shipped there. There is a website that says what they need and how you can help the people of Iraq. And not only that, but there is a crazy orphan problem now in Iraq. There are no orphanages and the people who have been orphaned by the U.S. occupation. The young children are left homeless and without any care, it's just a horrible crisis in Iraq right now. The American people and our government have all the responsibility for that and we should be helping them. There is something else a little bit off our subject today that I wanted to talk about and that is Bush's part on commuting the Scooter Libby sentence.

Mary: Did he commute?

Cindy: He commuted it and he hasn't ruled out pardoning Scooter Libby, giving him a total and complete pardon for his crime.

Mary: Was that in the news? I haven't seen the news for a few days.

Cindy: Yea, he commuted his sentence yesterday.

Mary: Oh my.

Cindy: I just wanted to let everyone know that my organization, Camp Casey Peace Institute and People for Humanity are going to start a walk from Atlanta, Georgia on July 13th to Washington, D.C. and we are going to end up there July 23rd. We are going to start a people's revolution for justice and for accountability. We will be posting details for that on Camp Casey's website. I think we need to start a new revolution, things are just getting too out of control.

Mary: We need a revolution for justice and a few things like that!

Cindy: Exactly, people's revolution.

Mary: But they aren't ruled by anything. Like I think about Bush and he doesn't care if people die. He probably never thinks about it and it just doesn't make any sense that somebody leading us, well..he doesn't lead our government, but somebody being there who doesn't care! Someone who just has HIS agenda and that's it!

Cindy: He has no human feelings, and you know the people of the ruling class of the late century

Mary: Right. You know last night Tom and D were with me and we were having a big discussion about the people running for the presidency and you know it is really hard. I would vote for the Green Party..

Cindy: I'm going to vote for anybody that's not for this war.

Mary: and some people have switched their identities, haven't they? Along the road…

Cindy: Everybody have a good tomorrow, I think that by next week on our next talk, I'll have the details about our walk for accountability and revolution.

Mary: I want sometime, and I hope everybody goes to see Michael Moore's movie, and I saw the part on Cuba and I cried because I love Cuba, and it pictured it as it is.

Cindy: You know we have to talk about Cuba because I've been to Cuba and I love it.

Mary: I've been there four times and then people still say you can't go. But next week we'll talk about your walk, okay?

Cindy: and then Cuba is a great future topic too, because it is the most fabulous country and people in our country need to understand it and not the rhetoric.

Mary: Oh we are completely propagandized against it. Another thing we need to talk about too is the propaganda machine that runs our country.

Cindy: Oh, absolutely. Okay everyone have a nice day!

Mary: Okay have a good day and thanks a lot!

My comment to WAPO

Mon, 02 Jul 2007 04:08:14 -0700

The following is my comment to the Washington Post on their Nightwatchman article...

How long has it been that "we the people" have gone without the simple, blatant truth that Morello so vehemently gives in the form of song?
Without a doubt the nicest, most gracious man I've ever had the privilege to meet. His honesty and intellect are refreshing in this time of governmental insipidity. He has accomplished much in his career, but this particular piece of work is his shining jewel...one in which he should be very proud!
I pray Tom Morello continues to open his heart in this way, bringing about an awakening to every American man, woman and child. The power is in OUR hands...let's take our country back!
Joe Hill and Caesar Chavez are smiling!

A Morello fan "Until The End",
Michelle

Momma M. (Re-post from Nightwatchman Brigade)

Sat, 30 Jun 2007 06:38:54 -0700

Saturday, June 30, 2007 The Mary Morello and Cindy Sheehan Show [week 1]

The Nightwatchman is a firm believer that his mother, Mary Morello, and Cindy Sheehan have the greatest conversations. So from now on, every week or so, you will have the chance to read them!

This conversation took place last Tuesday, June 26, 2007

Mary: My name is Mary Morello and today we're going to discuss the servicemen who have been in Iraq and are against the war and have organized in the US .

Cindy: My name is Cindy Sheehan and I have a long history with the Iraq Vets Against the War. Their website is ivaw.net and I believe that in Viet Nam the soldier resistance is one of the main reasons that the war ended. I think that what the IVAW are doing is incredibly amazing.

Mary: They're organized across the country and right now there are eleven of them going to Charlotte and then they're going to hit towns where there are any kind of bases. They're not going on the bases and they're not going to wear their uniforms but they're going to try and talk to people who live around them and when servicemen come into town, they're going to talk to them. When my son, Tom, played in Washington DC last week they asked if they could speak before Tom played and a huge bunch went onstage. Four people went up and joined, it was really crazy.

Cindy: I've seen them speak all over the country, they all call me mom. They're my sons and daughters, they're some amazing kids- I call them kids cause they're all the age of my kids. Every time they speak they have at least one vet come up and ask to join their organization. These are people who know what's going on in the war- just like the Veterans for Peace and the Viet Nam veterans against the war who organized after the Viet Nam war. They know the cost of war, they know the horribleness of war, they've seen it, they've been there and I think that their voices are important in the anti war discourse in our country. I really hoped that they would get more publicity and the networks and cable news would cover them more. Our mainstream media is so connected to this war machine and keeping the war going. I wish that their voices could be heard more.

Mary: Last week from the Chicago Tribune there was this great article- totally pro-the-vet and they spoke and for instance they said that the head of the Veterans of Foreign Wars said that they had the right to speak. Do you know Liam Adam?

Cindy: Yes. He is active duty and he organized the petition for redress and that's for active duty soldiers to sign their petition to bring the troops home. Essentially that they've been lied to, that their mission is not valid and that they want to come home from Iraq . I would encourage people to look into the petition for redress also. Liam Adam is one of the lead organizers on that.

Mary: He's one of them who are going outside of the camp. But you know they're threatening him now. He has an honorable discharge but he's being threatened with a less than honorable discharge. They've done that to some of the men who have participated in the anti-war movement, who have uniforms on. Let me tell you about this one young man who was 80% disabled and he came up before the review board and they told him that if he wore any part of his uniform at any of the rallies he would be given a dishonorable discharge and his $1300 a month is what he gets- isn't it horrible- anyhow he doesn't wear his uniform anymore to rallies- his mom does.

Cindy: Oh good, that's a good thing. It's amazing to me how they're stiff ling their freedom of speech after they were sent to fight in this illegal war when so many people who support the war still say it's for freedom. And when I look at these IVAW kids I know how brave they are and how much it takes out of them to do this. It takes a lot out of me to do this. I think I'm suffering from post traumatic stress disorder too by my son's death. I think that if Casey survived he would have joined IVAW. He didn't want to go to war, he didn't agree with George Bush and the war but he didn't think that he had any options so he went and he was killed. So I just love them and I hope that this helps them get their voice out there so that people in America can hear that it's not rosy over there, like the mainstream media tells us.

Mary: They're the nicest young men, the ones that I saw at DePaul University in Chicago and then I looked at everybody and I just thought " I'm so grateful that you made it home" because so many don't and it's horrible. The president doesn't care at all about deaths- it's so crazy. If people die, he doesn't care at all! He and the people around him caused all this and if he would end it and then bring them home at least all of those people would survive. And the Iraqis and Afghanistanis would survive, ya know?

Cindy: Well that's the thing. There's people dying for no reason and congress could end it but congress is being real wimpy. Congress could take George Bush's money away from him to fight this war. George Bush is never going to end it. He's already said that he's not going to end it. He's just a callous, murderous imbecile. Congress could stand up to the plate- they could have courage and they could care more for the people who are dying for no reason. Over 85 of our soldiers have died already in June because this surge is just killing them and killing the Iraqi people. The congress keeps saying that they're against the war but then they give George Bush more money to fund it. I think it's their job to step up to the plate and end it now.

Mary: There's an excellent book to read "Inside the Red Zone" and Cindy wrote the preface to it. I'm finishing it now and I'm telling people about it. If you read that- the war doesn't make any sense at all.

Cindy: I'll just encourage people to go to the Iraq Veteran's Against the War website: IVAW.net- to make donations to them so they can continue their bus tour so that they an spread the message of peace along the way. Especially to people on active duty right now, to tell them that they do have alternatives to going to war. I would encourage people to do that. Next week we'll be talking about the people of Iraq who have no medicine, no medical supplies. The children's leukemia rate is up 242% since the first Gulf War. I believe it is the responsibility of the United States to take care of these people.

Last statement by Mary was too fuzzy to be able to hear what she said. Bad connection.

New Fan

Mon, 25 Jun 2007 14:03:46 -0700

Here's an article , followed by a short message from my brother, Tom. Anyone who knows my brother Tom knows that he's not easily impressed...musically or politically. Morello has a new fan in my brother. Enjoy!

...Tom Morello, on Tour and on Message
Folk-Rock's Nightwatchman Plays True to His Roots

By Joshua Zumbrun
Washington Post Staff Writer
Monday, June 25, 2007; Page C01

Tom Morello has spent the last 15 years playing in sold-out arenas as the guitarist for Rage Against the Machine and Audioslave, yet here he was on Saturday night, playing to a sold-out coffeehouse crowd of 200 with just a guitar, harmonica and his voice.

His bands have sold more than 30 million records, so it's not that he needs a cut of the iced-coffee sales at Jammin' Java in Vienna, where he was performing as his acoustic folk-rock alter ego, the Nightwatchman, promoting his album "One Man Revolution."

His message is no mystery: It's evident in the black baseball cap that says "Industrial Workers of the World"; the phrase "Whatever it takes" that's scrawled on the soundboard of his guitar; and the crowd sporting T-shirts that say "Against All Authority" or "Support the Resistance" or "Iraq Veterans Against the War."

Morello rejects labels, largely because he's so far left on the political spectrum that labels cease to apply. A term like "revolutionary socialism" or "radical anti-establishment" gives a general idea for those unfamiliar with Rage Against the Machine.

"The whole idea of this was to be the black Woody Guthrie," Morello says of his new musical incarnation. "I started doing the Nightwatchman songs and music because it was important to me to have something really pure. To make music for wholly the right reasons."

The Nightwatchman, by design, is not for mass appeal. The songs are written to rally people on picket lines and at protests. "One criticism that could credibly be leveled against the record is that it's preaching to the converted," Morello said backstage before the show. "Well, the converted need a kick. . . . Those of us that know better are not doing enough."

Morello, 43, is touring the country in front of small, fired-up crowds because he's not satisfied that President Bush's approval ratings are low enough or that enough people want out of the Iraq war.

"Aside from [Rep. Dennis] Kucinich, and he's still several shades to the right of me, I don't think anybody has courageously stepped up and said what needs to be said. We have a war criminal sitting in the White House. That's not hyperbole."

Onstage, when the Nightwatchman sang, "I pray that God himself will come and drown the president if the levees break again," the Jammin' Java crowd's attitude was chilling. People were praying.

There were no screaming guitar solos that characterized Rage Against the Machine (although Morello does play an acoustic version of the Rage song "Guerrilla Radio" in his set), and this absence has been perhaps the biggest obstacle for his old fan base.

Among the Jammin' Java crowd on Saturday was Ryan Harvey, himself a musician. A member of a Baltimore folk-rock collective who could safely be described as part of the underground, he was never a big Rage fan. "I know a lot of people who were radicalized by Rage," Harvey says, "but in the '90s, I was already there."

To much of the underground, Rage Against the Machine was too commercial (the band's label was part of Sony, after all), but the Nightwatchman is in part a response to that. "He means it, and people can sense it," Harvey says. "If you don't mean it, you don't last too long with the grass roots."

So when Harvey suggested to Morello that Iraq Veterans Against the War should be a part of the show, he jumped at the opportunity. Saturday was the start of an IVAW bus tour that will visit East Coast military bases. Before Morello's set, a group of IVAW members took the stage. Liam Madden, a former Marine who organized the tour, spoke: "Today was the first day of that tour, and we had four new members join today. You can either follow our lead, you can blaze your own path, but we need your help."

The announcement of four new IVAW members fired up the crowd as much as any opening set could have.

Morello's not just angry about Iraq. Before each song he explained his inspiration for it, ranging from the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina to economic injustice to the Sago Mine Disaster, which made Morello realize that "energy is literally mixed with the blood of the working class."

He tells the crowd a story from two weeks ago, when police in Rostock, Germany, confronted thousands of demonstrators at the G8 economic summit with tear gas and water cannons. But it was worth it, he explains: "Somebody needs to represent the millions of Americans who are opposed to the eight wealthy leaders of the eight wealthiest countries getting together behind a three-story-tall barbed-wire fence to decide our fate."

Morello conceived the Nightwatchman after Rage Against the Machine broke up in 2000. Morello, along with Rage bassist Tim Commerford and drummer Brad Wilk, joined with former-Soundgarden frontman Chris Cornell as the new band Audioslave.

But Cornell's roots were in the grunge music of Seattle, and Audioslave never adopted the aggressive politics of Rage. (Although to call the band apolitical wouldn't be quite right either; it sold more than a million DVDs of its 2005 concert in Cuba.)

Morello loved the music, and he stayed involved with the issues he cared about through the Axis of Justice, a nonprofit founded with System of a Down frontman Serj Tankian that supports grass-roots activism (a big cause this year is rebuilding the homes of musicians in New Orleans). But for Morello, that was not enough.

"I felt like I was not doing enough in my vocation to fight back," he says. "I didn't choose to be a guitar player; that chose me. I'm cursed with being a guitar player.

"But once that curse has been cast, I need to, in order to look at myself in the mirror, need to find a way through my art and my vocation to fight the power."

Morello has always been fired up. His first political song as a high-schooler was "Salvadoran Death Squad Blues"; his Harvard application essay was "An Anarchist Manifesto About Libertyville, Ill." (his home town); and his senior thesis there was about student activism against apartheid in South Africa.

On Thanksgiving Day 2003, Morello was hosting a talent show at a homeless shelter in Los Angeles when a 19-year-old with an acoustic guitar started to sing. Whatever he may have lacked in actual skill he made up for with conviction.

Morello had never sung in his life, but the performance got him thinking: "Sure I can play some fancy guitar solos, but I have a few ideas in my head, too. If this guy on this stage in this very humble setting can really run it up the flagpole, what's keeping me from doing the same?"

On tour with Audioslave, he would look for open-mike nights, sign up anonymously, and play folk music for crowds that often did not recognize him. As he became more comfortable in the Nightwatchman alter ego, he started playing at union rallies and demonstrations.

In 2004, the day after the presidential election, Morello decided he would make a Nightwatchman record and later, during a break from touring with Audioslave, had time "to reassess my priorities," he recalls. "And I decided that I was only going to be involved in music that expressed my worldview. That left me open to a Rage Against the Machine reunion; that left me open to making a Nightwatchman record."

The hard rocking of Rage and Audioslave was gone, but the activism in his music was back. "As [historian] Howard Zinn says, 'You can't be neutral on a moving train.' "

The guitar and the activism are compulsions that Morello says he could never quit or separate. He has achieved success and fortune that few can imagine, but he could never be content merely surrounded by platinum records, some Grammy Awards and the Rolling Stone issue that declared him the 26th greatest guitar player of all time.

"There's something akin to grace in the combination of music and meaning," Morello mused before Saturday's show. "Tonight I'm going to go out there and play every song like it's the last song I'm ever going to play and try to see if it feels like grace."

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I was fortunate to see "The Nightwatchman" twice already. First at a radio station "listener appreciation" show in Louisville. Last week he opened for Ben Harper in Asheville. My sister (a HUGE fan) and I got to spend some time with Morello before the show.

Gracious, sincere, and genuine are only scratching the surface as we chatted about his G-8 performance (and daring escape!)and the simmering state of general unrest peakin in isolated, yet progressive places like Asheville, NC.

Morello even made a point of putting some ticketless people whom he'd never met before on his guest list for the SOLD OUT show! After his heartfelt set that reached the cynical core of this son of Harlan County, KY coal-miners, he showed up in the rear to meet and greet, to autograph and photograph for as long as people approached.

Later, Morello joined Harper's "Innocent Criminals" for a show-stopping, verse-trading version of Dylan's "Masters of War". His blistering solos during the song elicited the loudest cheers of the whole night.

Catch him if you can!

-T

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Come you masters of war
You that build all the guns
You that build the death planes
You that build the big bombs
You that hide behind walls
You that hide behind desks
I just want you to know
I can see through your masks

You that never done nothin'
But build to destroy
You play with my world
Like it's your little toy
You put a gun in my hand
And you hide from my eyes
And you turn and run farther
When the fast bullets fly

Like Judas of old
You lie and deceive
A world war can be won
You want me to believe
But I see through your eyes
And I see through your brain
Like I see through the water
That runs down my drain

You fasten the triggers
For the others to fire
Then you set back and watch
When the death count gets higher
You hide in your mansion
As young people's blood
Flows out of their bodies
And is buried in the mud

You've thrown the worst fear
That can ever be hurled
Fear to bring children
Into the world
For threatening my baby
Unborn and unnamed
You ain't worth the blood
That runs in your veins

How much do I know
To talk out of turn
You might say that I'm young
You might say I'm unlearned
But there's one thing I know
Though I'm younger than you
Even Jesus would never
Forgive what you do

Let me ask you one question
Is your money that good
Will it buy you forgiveness
Do you think that it could
I think you will find
When your death takes its toll
All the money you made
Will never buy back your soul

And I hope that you die
And your death'll come soon
I will follow your casket
In the pale afternoon
And I'll watch while you're lowered
Down to your deathbed
And I'll stand o'er your grave
'Til I'm sure that you're dead

The Nightwatchman

Tue, 19 Jun 2007 18:30:24 -0700