"Ownership society"?? 1987 REM-"Exhuming McCarthy"

[underpants]

Exhuming McCarthy
You’re beautiful more beautiful than me
You’re honorable more honorable than me
Loyal to the Bank of America


It’s a sign of the times
It’s a sign of the times


You’re sharpening stones, walking on coals
To improve your business acumen.
Sharpening stones, walking on coals,
To improve your business acumen.


Vested interest united ties, landed gentry rationalize
Look who bought the myth, buy a jingo, buy America


It’s a sign of the times
It’s a sign of the times

You’re sharpening stones, walking on coals
To improve your business acumen.
Sharpening stones, walking on coals,
To improve your business acumen.


Enemy sighted, enemy met, I’m addressing the realpolitik
Look who bought the myth, buy a jingo, buy America


"Let us not assassinate this man further Senator,
You’ve done enough. Have you no sense of decency, sir?
At long last, have you left no sense of decency?"


You’re sharpening stones, walking on coals
To improve your business acumen.
Sharpening stones, walking on coals,
To improve your business acumen.


Enemy sighted, enemy met, I’m addressing the realpolitik
You’ve seen start and you’ve seen quit
(I’m addressing the table of content)
I always thought of you as quick
Exhuming McCarthy
(Meet me at the book burning)
Exhuming McCarthy
(Meet me at the book burning)

http://www.remrock.com/remrock/lyrics/albums/document.html?song=exhuming

[Cooley Hurd]

1. Uncanny... I listened to "Document" last night...

...and thought the same thing when I heard this song.

[underpants]

2. I've always thought it was the most accurate description of the right

on lyrical form that I had ever heard.

Written right in the midst of the Reagan years and we thought THAT was an extremist period.

[ixion]

3. Stipe has always been spot on, politically

I was listening to Document just a cople weeks ago, but you could pull from so many of their songs... from Radio Free Europe all the way up to Bad Day.

REM is one of the greatest bands of all time, IMO. :yourock:

[underpants]

4. Yep-a Mellencamp song too

He was born on the fourth day of July
So his parents called him Independence Day
He married a girl named Justice who gave birth to a son called Nation
Then she walked away
Independence he would daydream and he'd pretend
That some day him and Justice and Nation would get together again
But Justice held up in a shotgun shack
And she wouldn't let nobdoy in
So a Nation cried
CHORUS
Oh, oh
When a Nation cries
His tears fall down like missiles from the skies
Justice look into Independence's eyes
Can you make everything alright
Can you keep your Nation warm tonight
Well Nation grew up and got himself a big reputation
Couldn't keep the boy at home no, no
He just kept running 'round and 'round and 'round and 'round
Indpendence and Justice well they felt so ashamed
When the Nation fell down they argued who was to blame
Nation if you'll come home we'll have this family again
Oh, Nation, don't cry
CHORUS
Roll a rock across the country
Everybody come along
When you're feelin' down, yeah, yeah
Just sing this song, yeah yeah

[agingdem]

5. Gool old Joe...

When I was a very little girl my father sat me in front of our little black and white television and insisted I watch what turned out to be one of the McCarthy hearings...many years later I still see no difference between the Republican Party then and now...HATE HATE HATE!