"House Burning Down" by Jimi Hendrix

[H2O Man]

For many of us older DUers, I think that the madness we are experiencing brings back memories of 1968. After Martin Luther king was killed, many of the cities in America caught on fire. Jimi Hendrix wrote a song about that scarey time. Obviously, this is a different set of circumstances. But the message is still good.

"Look at the sky turn a hell-fire red
Somebodies' house is burning
down, down, down down.

Well I asked my friend
'Where is that black smoke coming from?'
he just coughed and changed the subject
and said, 'Uh, it might snow some.'
So I left him sipping his tea,
and I jumped in my chariot and rode off to see
just why and who could it be this time around.

Sisters and brothers, daddies, mothers
standing around crying
When I reached the scene
the flames were making a ghostly whine
so I stood on my horse's back
and I screamed without a crack
I said, 'Oh baby why did you
burn your brother's house down?'

Well someone stepped from the crowd
he was nineteen miles high
he shouts, 'We're tired and disgusted
so we painted red through the sky.'
I said, 'The truth is straight ahead
so don't burn yourself instead
Try learning instead of burning
Hear what I say.'

So I finally rode away
but I'll never forget that day
'Cause when I reached the valley
I looked down across the way
a giant boat from space
landed with eerie grace
and came and taken all the dead away."

Sometimes young people say they wish they were alive for 1968. This has a lot of the insanity. These are intense times. Jimi was right: try to learn and do better than the generation that came before you.

[Me.]

1. "'The truth is straight ahead"

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