This is great. I don’t know how he got away with it but I bet somebody’s in serious trouble with the network heads.
I don't know who Bright Eyes is, but he performed this amazing, powerful protest song on Jay Leno's Tonight Show a few nights ago. What's amazing is not the quality of the performance, but that the performance was allowed at all. (My understanding is that he was slated to sing a different song, but unexpectedly did this instead).
Here are the lyrics:
"When The President Talks To God"
When the president talks to God
Are the conversations brief or long?
Does he ask to rape our women’s' rights
And send poor farm kids off to die?
Does God suggest an oil hike
When the president talks to God?
When the president talks to God
Are the consonants all hard or soft?
Is he resolute all down the line?
Is every issue black or white?
Does what God say ever change his mind
When the president talks to God?
When the president talks to God
Does he fake that drawl or merely nod?
Agree which convicts should be killed?
Where prisons should be built and filled?
Which voter fraud must be concealed
When the president talks to God?
When the president talks to God
I wonder which one plays the better cop
We should find some jobs. the ghetto's broke
No, they're lazy, George, I say we don't
Just give 'em more liquor stores and dirty coke
That's what God recommends
When the president talks to God
Do they drink near beer and go play golf
While they pick which countries to invade
Which Muslim souls still can be saved?
I guess god just calls a spade a spade
When the president talks to God
When the president talks to God
Does he ever think that maybe he's not?
That that voice is just inside his head
When he kneels next to the presidential bed
Does he ever smell his own bullshit
When the president talks to God?
I doubt it
I doubt it
"In the post-meditative experience become a child of illusion" is a slogan from the Tibetan mind training tradition. We engage the world as we experience it all the while realizing that reality is not as it seems to be.
Sunday, May 22, 2005
When the President talks to God
This was sent to me by Paul Rogers. It's really something:
Paul and Ellie, thanks for sharing this. Keep us posted on the repercussions of this. Marilyn
ReplyDeleteI just watched the video of this performance; Leno announces Bright Eyes by saying, "And here to perform his critically acclaimed protest song is..." During the performance, you can hear people cheering from the audience.
ReplyDeleteSo, it looks like some dissident is starting to be heard in the most unlikely places. This is excellent.