The Winter of the Long Hot Summer
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It all seemed so idiotic
All the accusations of unpatriotic
The fall we'll always remember
Capitulating silence election November
Before the winter
Of the long hot summer
Somewhere in the desert
We raised the oil pressure
And waited for the weather
To get much better
For the new wind to blow in the storm
We tried to remember the history in the region
The French foreign legion, Imperialism
Peter O'Toole and hate the Ayatollah
Were all we learned in school
Not that we gave Hussein five billion
Not of our new bed partner the Syrian
And of course no mention
Of the Palestine situation
It was amazing how they steamrolled
They said eighty percent approval
But there was no one that I knew polled
No one had a reason for being in the Gulf
We waited for Congress to speak up
Illegal build up
But no one would wake up
Our representatives were Milli Vanilli's
For corporate Dallas Cowboy Beverly Hillbillies
With perfect timing
The politicians rhyming their sentiments
So nicely oil, gold and sand
My sediments precisely
We regretfully support the lunacy
I'm afraid there is no time for more scrutiny
National unity preserve our community
Teflon election opportunities
Were in profundant abundance
On January second the Bush administration
Announced a recession had stricken the Nation
The highest quarterly earnings in ten years
Were posted by Chevron
Meanwhile a budget was placed in our hands
As the deadline in the sand came to an end
So much for the peace dividend
One billion a day is what we spent
And our grandchildren will pay for it 'til the end
When schools are unfunded
And kids don't get their diplomas
They get used for gun boat diplomacy
Disproportionately black or brown we see
Bullet catchers for the slave master
Then the conservatives called up reservists
To active service left families nervous
But more importantly broke nine hundred a month
But the check came late, army red tape you see
This golden opportunity
We watched the tube and read the newspaper
The propaganda of the gas masked raper
Was the proper slander to whip up the hatred
The stage was lit and the lights were all faded
The pilots in night vision goggles Kuwaited and
Generals masturbated
'Til the fifteenth two days later they invaded
Not a single T.V. station expressed dissension or
Hardly made mention to the censorship of information
From our kinder and gentler nation
Blinder and mentaler retardation
Disorientation
The pilots said their bombs lit Baghdad
Like a Christmas tree
It was the Christian thing to do you see
They didn't mention any casualties
No distinction between the real
And the proxy
Only football analogies
We saw the bomb hole
We watched the Super Bowl
We saw the scud missile
We watched Bud commercials
We saw the yellow ribbons
Saw pilots in prison
We never saw films of the dead
At eleven
Angela Davis addressed the spectators
And shouting above a rumbling generator
If they insist on bringing us down
Then let's shut the whole country down
Marching through the downtown
A hundred thousand became participants
And we heard the drums of millions off in the distance
Rushing through the cities
Some of them did things that weren't so pretty
Most were there for primal scream therapy
News men concentrated
On the negative liked the jingoists more
Peaceful protesters ended up on
The cutting room floor
Nintendo casualties of the ratings war
More bombs dropped than in World War II
Or in both Asian invasions
New world order persuasion
Business as usual for our nation
Could you imagine a hundred fifty thousand dead
The city of Stockton coffins locked in
When we clocked in, not to mention civilians
The loss of life on both sides
Pushed the limits of resilience
The scent of blood in our nostrils
Fuel of the fossil land of apostle
The blackness that covered the sky
Was not the only thing that
Brought a tear to the eye or
The taste of anger to the tongues
Of those too young to remember
Vietnam
Is heroin better in a veteran's mind
Than the memory of the dying laying in a line
Is it the smell or the shadows heaving and weeping
That keeps the soldier from sleeping
As he sings the orphan's lullaby
When the soldiers put down their bayonets
The strings are chained to the marionettes
Emir of Kuwait gets back in his jet
We replace the dead with new cadets
Will we hate those who did the shelling
Or will we hate those who weren't willing
To do the killing
When the leaders of the bald eagles come home to roost
Will we sing a song of praise and indebtedness
For our deliverance from evil?
Or will we sing a song of sadness
For the dreaded debt this mess
Delivered us people?
All the accusations of unpatriotic
The fall we'll always remember
Capitulating silence election November
Before the winter
Of the long hot summer
Somewhere in the desert
We raised the oil pressure
And waited for the weather
To get much better
For the new wind to blow in the storm
We tried to remember the history in the region
The French foreign legion, Imperialism
Peter O'Toole and hate the Ayatollah
Were all we learned in school
Not that we gave Hussein five billion
Not of our new bed partner the Syrian
And of course no mention
Of the Palestine situation
It was amazing how they steamrolled
They said eighty percent approval
But there was no one that I knew polled
No one had a reason for being in the Gulf
We waited for Congress to speak up
Illegal build up
But no one would wake up
Our representatives were Milli Vanilli's
For corporate Dallas Cowboy Beverly Hillbillies
With perfect timing
The politicians rhyming their sentiments
So nicely oil, gold and sand
My sediments precisely
We regretfully support the lunacy
I'm afraid there is no time for more scrutiny
National unity preserve our community
Teflon election opportunities
Were in profundant abundance
On January second the Bush administration
Announced a recession had stricken the Nation
The highest quarterly earnings in ten years
Were posted by Chevron
Meanwhile a budget was placed in our hands
As the deadline in the sand came to an end
So much for the peace dividend
One billion a day is what we spent
And our grandchildren will pay for it 'til the end
When schools are unfunded
And kids don't get their diplomas
They get used for gun boat diplomacy
Disproportionately black or brown we see
Bullet catchers for the slave master
Then the conservatives called up reservists
To active service left families nervous
But more importantly broke nine hundred a month
But the check came late, army red tape you see
This golden opportunity
We watched the tube and read the newspaper
The propaganda of the gas masked raper
Was the proper slander to whip up the hatred
The stage was lit and the lights were all faded
The pilots in night vision goggles Kuwaited and
Generals masturbated
'Til the fifteenth two days later they invaded
Not a single T.V. station expressed dissension or
Hardly made mention to the censorship of information
From our kinder and gentler nation
Blinder and mentaler retardation
Disorientation
The pilots said their bombs lit Baghdad
Like a Christmas tree
It was the Christian thing to do you see
They didn't mention any casualties
No distinction between the real
And the proxy
Only football analogies
We saw the bomb hole
We watched the Super Bowl
We saw the scud missile
We watched Bud commercials
We saw the yellow ribbons
Saw pilots in prison
We never saw films of the dead
At eleven
Angela Davis addressed the spectators
And shouting above a rumbling generator
If they insist on bringing us down
Then let's shut the whole country down
Marching through the downtown
A hundred thousand became participants
And we heard the drums of millions off in the distance
Rushing through the cities
Some of them did things that weren't so pretty
Most were there for primal scream therapy
News men concentrated
On the negative liked the jingoists more
Peaceful protesters ended up on
The cutting room floor
Nintendo casualties of the ratings war
More bombs dropped than in World War II
Or in both Asian invasions
New world order persuasion
Business as usual for our nation
Could you imagine a hundred fifty thousand dead
The city of Stockton coffins locked in
When we clocked in, not to mention civilians
The loss of life on both sides
Pushed the limits of resilience
The scent of blood in our nostrils
Fuel of the fossil land of apostle
The blackness that covered the sky
Was not the only thing that
Brought a tear to the eye or
The taste of anger to the tongues
Of those too young to remember
Vietnam
Is heroin better in a veteran's mind
Than the memory of the dying laying in a line
Is it the smell or the shadows heaving and weeping
That keeps the soldier from sleeping
As he sings the orphan's lullaby
When the soldiers put down their bayonets
The strings are chained to the marionettes
Emir of Kuwait gets back in his jet
We replace the dead with new cadets
Will we hate those who did the shelling
Or will we hate those who weren't willing
To do the killing
When the leaders of the bald eagles come home to roost
Will we sing a song of praise and indebtedness
For our deliverance from evil?
Or will we sing a song of sadness
For the dreaded debt this mess
Delivered us people?
โฑ๏ธ Synced Lyrics
[00:10.65] It all seemed so idiotic
[00:12.70] All the accusations of unpatriotic
[00:16.36] The fall we'll always remember
[00:18.20] Capitulating silence election November
[00:20.89] Before the winter
[00:22.46] Of the long hot summer
[00:24.38] Somewhere in the desert
[00:25.57] We raised the oil pressure
[00:26.92] And waited for the weather
[00:28.72] To get much better
[00:29.77] For the new wind to blow in the storm
[00:32.06] We tried to remember the history in the region
[00:35.44] The French foreign legion, Imperialism
[00:38.17] Peter O'Toole and hate the Ayatollah
[00:40.61] Were all we learned in school
[00:43.16] Not that we gave Hussein five billion
[00:46.48] Not of our new bed partner the Syrian
[00:49.16] And of course no mention
[00:50.95] Of the Palestine situation
[00:54.03] It was amazing how they steamrolled
[00:56.74] They said eighty percent approval
[00:59.20] But there was no one that I knew polled
[01:02.28] No one had a reason for being in the Gulf
[01:04.94] We waited for Congress to speak up
[01:07.59] Illegal build up
[01:08.93] But no one would wake up
[01:10.39] Our representatives were Milli Vanilli's
[01:13.31] For corporate Dallas Cowboy Beverly Hillbillies
[01:22.26] With perfect timing
[01:23.35] The politicians rhyming their sentiments
[01:25.76] So nicely oil, gold and sand
[01:28.82] My sediments precisely
[01:31.25] We regretfully support the lunacy
[01:35.13] I'm afraid there is no time for more scrutiny
[01:37.82] National unity preserve our community
[01:41.34] Teflon election opportunities
[01:44.00] Were in profundant abundance
[01:49.40] On January second the Bush administration
[01:51.91] Announced a recession had stricken the Nation
[01:54.72] The highest quarterly earnings in ten years
[01:57.93] Were posted by Chevron
[02:06.09] Meanwhile a budget was placed in our hands
[02:08.18] As the deadline in the sand came to an end
[02:11.17] So much for the peace dividend
[02:13.85] One billion a day is what we spent
[02:16.41] And our grandchildren will pay for it 'til the end
[02:22.03] When schools are unfunded
[02:23.24] And kids don't get their diplomas
[02:25.66] They get used for gun boat diplomacy
[02:28.89] Disproportionately black or brown we see
[02:31.89] Bullet catchers for the slave master
[02:38.50] Then the conservatives called up reservists
[02:41.39] To active service left families nervous
[02:44.06] But more importantly broke nine hundred a month
[02:47.94] But the check came late, army red tape you see
[02:52.79] This golden opportunity
[02:55.29] We watched the tube and read the newspaper
[02:57.83] The propaganda of the gas masked raper
[03:00.60] Was the proper slander to whip up the hatred
[03:03.36] The stage was lit and the lights were all faded
[03:06.09] The pilots in night vision goggles Kuwaited and
[03:08.77] Generals masturbated
[03:10.89] 'Til the fifteenth two days later they invaded
[03:17.04] Not a single T.V. station expressed dissension or
[03:20.50] Hardly made mention to the censorship of information
[03:24.51] From our kinder and gentler nation
[03:27.39] Blinder and mentaler retardation
[03:31.01] Disorientation
[03:33.22] The pilots said their bombs lit Baghdad
[03:36.00] Like a Christmas tree
[03:37.93] It was the Christian thing to do you see
[03:43.45] They didn't mention any casualties
[03:47.00] No distinction between the real
[03:48.82] And the proxy
[03:50.32] Only football analogies
[03:55.55] We saw the bomb hole
[03:56.82] We watched the Super Bowl
[03:58.06] We saw the scud missile
[03:59.40] We watched Bud commercials
[04:00.89] We saw the yellow ribbons
[04:02.15] Saw pilots in prison
[04:03.38] We never saw films of the dead
[04:05.49] At eleven
[04:12.05] Angela Davis addressed the spectators
[04:14.54] And shouting above a rumbling generator
[04:17.64] If they insist on bringing us down
[04:19.84] Then let's shut the whole country down
[04:22.84] Marching through the downtown
[04:25.08] A hundred thousand became participants
[04:27.84] And we heard the drums of millions off in the distance
[04:33.82] Rushing through the cities
[04:35.78] Some of them did things that weren't so pretty
[04:39.12] Most were there for primal scream therapy
[04:44.83] News men concentrated
[04:46.74] On the negative liked the jingoists more
[04:49.86] Peaceful protesters ended up on
[04:53.17] The cutting room floor
[04:55.69] Nintendo casualties of the ratings war
[05:01.38] More bombs dropped than in World War II
[05:03.62] Or in both Asian invasions
[05:06.62] New world order persuasion
[05:09.58] Business as usual for our nation
[05:17.88] Could you imagine a hundred fifty thousand dead
[05:21.60] The city of Stockton coffins locked in
[05:24.60] When we clocked in, not to mention civilians
[05:27.96] The loss of life on both sides
[05:30.93] Pushed the limits of resilience
[05:39.56] The scent of blood in our nostrils
[05:41.62] Fuel of the fossil land of apostle
[05:44.35] The blackness that covered the sky
[05:46.05] Was not the only thing that
[05:47.88] Brought a tear to the eye or
[05:49.87] The taste of anger to the tongues
[05:51.86] Of those too young to remember
[05:55.57] Vietnam
[06:01.66] Is heroin better in a veteran's mind
[06:04.12] Than the memory of the dying laying in a line
[06:06.81] Is it the smell or the shadows heaving and weeping
[06:09.55] That keeps the soldier from sleeping
[06:11.64] As he sings the orphan's lullaby
[06:23.48] When the soldiers put down their bayonets
[06:25.95] The strings are chained to the marionettes
[06:28.79] Emir of Kuwait gets back in his jet
[06:31.42] We replace the dead with new cadets
[06:35.18] Will we hate those who did the shelling
[06:38.73] Or will we hate those who weren't willing
[06:43.58] To do the killing
[06:45.25] When the leaders of the bald eagles come home to roost
[06:50.33] Will we sing a song of praise and indebtedness
[06:53.67] For our deliverance from evil?
[06:56.17] Or will we sing a song of sadness
[06:58.05] For the dreaded debt this mess
[07:00.16] Delivered us people?
[07:02.76]
[00:12.70] All the accusations of unpatriotic
[00:16.36] The fall we'll always remember
[00:18.20] Capitulating silence election November
[00:20.89] Before the winter
[00:22.46] Of the long hot summer
[00:24.38] Somewhere in the desert
[00:25.57] We raised the oil pressure
[00:26.92] And waited for the weather
[00:28.72] To get much better
[00:29.77] For the new wind to blow in the storm
[00:32.06] We tried to remember the history in the region
[00:35.44] The French foreign legion, Imperialism
[00:38.17] Peter O'Toole and hate the Ayatollah
[00:40.61] Were all we learned in school
[00:43.16] Not that we gave Hussein five billion
[00:46.48] Not of our new bed partner the Syrian
[00:49.16] And of course no mention
[00:50.95] Of the Palestine situation
[00:54.03] It was amazing how they steamrolled
[00:56.74] They said eighty percent approval
[00:59.20] But there was no one that I knew polled
[01:02.28] No one had a reason for being in the Gulf
[01:04.94] We waited for Congress to speak up
[01:07.59] Illegal build up
[01:08.93] But no one would wake up
[01:10.39] Our representatives were Milli Vanilli's
[01:13.31] For corporate Dallas Cowboy Beverly Hillbillies
[01:22.26] With perfect timing
[01:23.35] The politicians rhyming their sentiments
[01:25.76] So nicely oil, gold and sand
[01:28.82] My sediments precisely
[01:31.25] We regretfully support the lunacy
[01:35.13] I'm afraid there is no time for more scrutiny
[01:37.82] National unity preserve our community
[01:41.34] Teflon election opportunities
[01:44.00] Were in profundant abundance
[01:49.40] On January second the Bush administration
[01:51.91] Announced a recession had stricken the Nation
[01:54.72] The highest quarterly earnings in ten years
[01:57.93] Were posted by Chevron
[02:06.09] Meanwhile a budget was placed in our hands
[02:08.18] As the deadline in the sand came to an end
[02:11.17] So much for the peace dividend
[02:13.85] One billion a day is what we spent
[02:16.41] And our grandchildren will pay for it 'til the end
[02:22.03] When schools are unfunded
[02:23.24] And kids don't get their diplomas
[02:25.66] They get used for gun boat diplomacy
[02:28.89] Disproportionately black or brown we see
[02:31.89] Bullet catchers for the slave master
[02:38.50] Then the conservatives called up reservists
[02:41.39] To active service left families nervous
[02:44.06] But more importantly broke nine hundred a month
[02:47.94] But the check came late, army red tape you see
[02:52.79] This golden opportunity
[02:55.29] We watched the tube and read the newspaper
[02:57.83] The propaganda of the gas masked raper
[03:00.60] Was the proper slander to whip up the hatred
[03:03.36] The stage was lit and the lights were all faded
[03:06.09] The pilots in night vision goggles Kuwaited and
[03:08.77] Generals masturbated
[03:10.89] 'Til the fifteenth two days later they invaded
[03:17.04] Not a single T.V. station expressed dissension or
[03:20.50] Hardly made mention to the censorship of information
[03:24.51] From our kinder and gentler nation
[03:27.39] Blinder and mentaler retardation
[03:31.01] Disorientation
[03:33.22] The pilots said their bombs lit Baghdad
[03:36.00] Like a Christmas tree
[03:37.93] It was the Christian thing to do you see
[03:43.45] They didn't mention any casualties
[03:47.00] No distinction between the real
[03:48.82] And the proxy
[03:50.32] Only football analogies
[03:55.55] We saw the bomb hole
[03:56.82] We watched the Super Bowl
[03:58.06] We saw the scud missile
[03:59.40] We watched Bud commercials
[04:00.89] We saw the yellow ribbons
[04:02.15] Saw pilots in prison
[04:03.38] We never saw films of the dead
[04:05.49] At eleven
[04:12.05] Angela Davis addressed the spectators
[04:14.54] And shouting above a rumbling generator
[04:17.64] If they insist on bringing us down
[04:19.84] Then let's shut the whole country down
[04:22.84] Marching through the downtown
[04:25.08] A hundred thousand became participants
[04:27.84] And we heard the drums of millions off in the distance
[04:33.82] Rushing through the cities
[04:35.78] Some of them did things that weren't so pretty
[04:39.12] Most were there for primal scream therapy
[04:44.83] News men concentrated
[04:46.74] On the negative liked the jingoists more
[04:49.86] Peaceful protesters ended up on
[04:53.17] The cutting room floor
[04:55.69] Nintendo casualties of the ratings war
[05:01.38] More bombs dropped than in World War II
[05:03.62] Or in both Asian invasions
[05:06.62] New world order persuasion
[05:09.58] Business as usual for our nation
[05:17.88] Could you imagine a hundred fifty thousand dead
[05:21.60] The city of Stockton coffins locked in
[05:24.60] When we clocked in, not to mention civilians
[05:27.96] The loss of life on both sides
[05:30.93] Pushed the limits of resilience
[05:39.56] The scent of blood in our nostrils
[05:41.62] Fuel of the fossil land of apostle
[05:44.35] The blackness that covered the sky
[05:46.05] Was not the only thing that
[05:47.88] Brought a tear to the eye or
[05:49.87] The taste of anger to the tongues
[05:51.86] Of those too young to remember
[05:55.57] Vietnam
[06:01.66] Is heroin better in a veteran's mind
[06:04.12] Than the memory of the dying laying in a line
[06:06.81] Is it the smell or the shadows heaving and weeping
[06:09.55] That keeps the soldier from sleeping
[06:11.64] As he sings the orphan's lullaby
[06:23.48] When the soldiers put down their bayonets
[06:25.95] The strings are chained to the marionettes
[06:28.79] Emir of Kuwait gets back in his jet
[06:31.42] We replace the dead with new cadets
[06:35.18] Will we hate those who did the shelling
[06:38.73] Or will we hate those who weren't willing
[06:43.58] To do the killing
[06:45.25] When the leaders of the bald eagles come home to roost
[06:50.33] Will we sing a song of praise and indebtedness
[06:53.67] For our deliverance from evil?
[06:56.17] Or will we sing a song of sadness
[06:58.05] For the dreaded debt this mess
[07:00.16] Delivered us people?
[07:02.76]