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On passage of

The Emergency Economic Stabilization Act 2008

I'll tip my hat to the new constitution
Take a bow for the new revolution
Smile and grin at the change all around me
Pick up my guitar and play
Just like yesterday
Then I'll get on my knees and pray
We don't get fooled again...

...There's nothing in the street
Looks any different to me
And the slogans are replaced, by-the-bye
And the parting on the left
Is now the parting on the right
And the beards have all grown longer overnight...

...Meet the new boss
Same as the old boss

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    www.youtube.com/watch?...

    This is the end
    Beautiful friend
    This is the end
    My only friend, the end

    Of our elaborate plans, the end
    Of everything that stands, the end
    No safety or surprise, the end
    Ill never look into your eyes...again

    Can you picture what will be
    So limitless and free
    Desperately in need...of some...strangers hand
    In a...desperate land

    Lost in a roman...wilderness of pain
    And all the children are insane
    All the children are insane
    Waiting for the summer rain, yeah

    Theres danger on the edge of town
    Ride the kings highway, baby
    Weird scenes inside the gold mine
    Ride the highway west, baby

    Ride the snake, ride the snake
    To the lake, the ancient lake, baby
    The snake is long, seven miles
    Ride the snake...hes old, and his skin is cold

    The west is the best
    The west is the best
    Get here, and well do the rest

    The blue bus is callin us
    The blue bus is callin us
    Driver, where you taken us

    The killer awoke before dawn, he put his boots on
    He took a face from the ancient gallery
    And he walked on down the hall
    He went into the room where his sister lived, and...then he
    Paid a visit to his brother, and then he
    He walked on down the hall, and
    And he came to a door...and he looked inside
    Father, yes son, I want to kill you
    Mother...i want to...

    Cmon baby, take a chance with us
    Cmon baby, take a chance with us
    Cmon baby, take a chance with us
    And meet me at the back of the blue bus
    Doin a blue rock
    On a blue bus
    Doin a blue rock
    Cmon, yeah

    Kill, kill, kill, kill, kill, kill

    This is the end
    Beautiful friend
    This is the end
    My only friend, the end

    It hurts to set you free
    But youll never follow me
    The end of laughter and soft lies
    The end of nights we tried to die

    This is the end
    2008 Oct 05 10:09 AM | Link | Reply
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    Poets surround us and tell a fate-full tale of truth.

    The stock market collapses in the week of its rescue.

    But, what went wrong?

    More than any can articulate.

    The free economy has failed cry many.

    The free market economy disappeared hundreds of years ago say others. David Hume and Adam Smith described what free markets should be more than 250 years ago. There is now nothing like a free market.

    Shake down artists use governments as their agents in a spirited game of miss allocation of assets taking down the living standards of all but the government agents and their friends and relatives. Poverty overtakes the general population and lowers their living standards. Cheap labor is imported in bodies and in products to serve the riich at lower costs than the native Americans.

    Welcome to the tribe. We are all Americans Indians now.

    The trend is in place, locked and loaded until the population starves or moves away. Europe, Japan, Korea. are all on the same path.

    Good luck



    2008 Oct 05 12:39 PM | Link | Reply
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    there is a good possibility the authors of both of those great songs were under the influence of some substance. Do you think that the losers who helped to create this financial conundrum were on some substance as well.
    I hate to think of the music and think of those nitwits who puts us here... in the same light. You hear the music think about the lyrics metaphorically and then unfortunately think about those who are responsible for this crisis. Just not right!! Good music, just the same.
    2008 Oct 05 05:06 PM | Link | Reply
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