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| Posted: Sun Mar 1st, 2020 10:54 pm |
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I'm pretty sure the lines are interchangeable and that there's more to. Come.
Now that yet another crisis
Has gone spread acrost the land
You're clutching your devices
Like they're stapled to your hands
You have all the information
That you need for this decision
You've been told a hundred times
But ain't nobody listening
Don't shoot the messenger
The fabric of community
is strategically unravelled
As the monuments to liberty
are slowly ground into gravel
Civility is gone beyond
the point of no return
When the voice of reason is the one
that says just let it burn
Don't shoot the messenger
Anything's a crisis if
It garners enough wealth
But after the commercials
they'll be on to something else
The profits made by those who are
The first to break the news
Are so obscene there's no reward
In waiting for the truth
Don't shoot the messenger
Lots more, I think
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| Posted: Mon Mar 2nd, 2020 12:08 am |
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Hey there,
I find this lyrics very interesting!
Still trying to get all the images out.
Just wanted to say real quick, what made me frown a little:
But ain't nobody listening < maybe I just don’t get it, but somehow it feels a little out of the picture. „Seems nobody is listening“ would make more sense to me. Specially if I combine it with the line before.
strategically < seems to be a very difficult word for a song. While reading I had to start twice to fully get it. So maybe you find a word that is less „complicated“.
That is all from me.
I‘m sure I read it once again, it’s a good piece u have here.
Cheerio
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| Posted: Mon Mar 2nd, 2020 09:02 pm |
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Hey Gregg, Yes, keep it going! I love it. It is well written, fun, interesting and I would keep reading if there were more verses.
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| Posted: Wed Apr 8th, 2020 01:10 am |
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Just realized I haven't touched this since it became relevant. Could be ten verses in the last three weeks
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| Posted: Sun Sep 6th, 2020 08:14 pm |
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I have to call this done or write a new verse everyday
Don't Shoot the Messenger
Now that yet another crisis has gone swept acrost the land
You're clutching your devices like they're stapled to your hands
You have more information than you need for these conditions
You've heard it all a thousand times, why ain't nobody listening?
The profits made by those who are the first to break the news
Are so obscene there's no reward in waiting for the truth
Anything's a crisis if it garners enough wealth
But after the commercials they'll be on to something else
Don't shoot the messenger
The man who once said, and I quote, this'll all be done by May
might lose a quarter million voters before election day
But he says nah, it's just a hoax, no need to count the dead
They're mostly just poor city folks who never voted red
Now both the left and right are leaning well past radical
It looks like sensibility has taken a sabbatical
Hurlin' cherry-picked atrocities across the aisle at each other
As if one immoral act could justify another
Don't shoot the messenger
If you vilify the victims you can delegate the blame
Then pretend you are appalled to see the neighborhood in flames
And those who seem to have a thirst for hurried Armageddon
Are trying to put the fires out with AK forty-sevens
And though they're in the kind of places no one wants to live
You named all them streets after MLK, how much can you give?
Thought you fixed all that inequity and built a safer planet
When you gave yourselves a Monday off and etched his words in granite
Don't shoot the messenger
The fabric of community is strategically unravelled
As the monuments to liberty are slowly ground into gravel
Civility is gone beyond the point of no return
When the voice of reason is the one that says just let it burn
I am just the messenger and neither side has paid me
I'm just a mirror reflecting the reality that made me
So, when the day arrives that I have joined the choir eternal
please equip my place of rest with a dance floor and a urinal
But don't shoot the messenger
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| Posted: Mon Sep 7th, 2020 12:21 pm |
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My, it's really grown! Still epic and just as relevant this side of the pond too!
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| Posted: Mon Sep 7th, 2020 11:11 pm |
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Thanks Billy
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