I think Pete Townshend sums up my feelings the best........

[the Princess]

Everyone should listen to this song tonite and get ANGRY. Ony real anger is gonna bring about real change. And this song is about as angry as Pete ever got.



WON'T GET FOOLED AGAIN.


We'll be fighting in the streets
With our children at our feet
And the morals that they worship will be gone
And the men who spurred us on
Sit in judgement of all wrong
They decide and the shotgun sings the song

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

The change, it had to come
We knew it all along
We were liberated from the fold, that's all
And the world looks just the same
And history ain't changed
'Cause the banners, they are flown in the next war

I'll tip my hat to the new constitution
Take a bow for the new revolution
Smile and grin at the change all around
Pick up my guitar and play
Just like yesterday
Then I'll get on my knees and pray
We don't get fooled again
No, no!

I'll move myself and my family aside
If we happen to be left half alive
I'll get all my papers and smile at the sky
Though I know that the hypnotized never lie
Do ya?

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

I'll tip my hat to the new constitution
Take a bow for the new revolution
Smile and grin at the change all around
Pick up my guitar and play
Just like yesterday
Then I'll get on my knees and pray
We don't get fooled again
Don't get fooled again
No, no!

Yeaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah!

Meet the new boss
Same as the old boss

[JimmyJazz]

1. Oh yeah - and this one, too:

It's up to you not to heed the call-up
'N' you must not act the way you were brought up
Who knows the reasons why you have grown up?
Who knows the plans or why they were drawn up?

It's up to you not to heed the call-up
I don't wanna die!
It's up to you not to hear the call-up
I don't wanna kill!

For he who will die
Is he who will kill

Maybe I wanna see the wheatfields
Over Kiev and down to the sea

All the young people down the ages
They gladly marched off to die
Proud city fathers used to watch them
Tears in their eyes

There is a rose that I want to live for
Although, God knows, I may not have met her
There is a dance an' I should be with her
There is a town - unlike any other

It's up to you not to hear the call-up
'N' you must not act the way you were brought up
Who give you work an' why should you do it?
At fifty five minutes past eleven
There is a rose...
Yeah!

[liberalfrombirth]

11. wasn't he the guy

wholiked looking at litlegirls in the nude?

[JimmyJazz]

12. well, here's Pete's statement on the subject - I have nothing further

to add.

http://classicrock.about.com/bltownshend2.htm

[silverchair]

2. great song

i love that song...perfectly sums up the moment.

[zeemike]

3. One of my favorites

And just as true today as it was then.

[Kilroy003]

4. I think I read somewhere that Mr. Townsend

was more than just a little upset over the fact that Michael Moore used his song in F/911. I may be making it up, but I remember reading it... somewhere.

[the Princess]

6. Yes Michael Moore

Wanted to use Pete's song and Pete said "NO". And Michael Moore started bad mouthing him everywhere. And Pete was PISSED! Rigthly so.

[wurzel]

5. "Anger" won't change a thing. We need to learn a lesson.

The lesson is in the use of language. We have to learn how to put our agenda in a way acceptable to people used more to religious than social terms. We have to make social morals as important and as understandable as personal.

[FreedomFry]

7. I'm sadder, so this is the one I can't get outta my head:

AMERICAN TUNE

Many's the time I've been mistaken, and many times confused
And I've often felt forsaken, and certainly misused.
But it's all right, it's all right, I'm just weary to my bones
Still, you don't expect to be bright and Bon Vivant
So far away from home, so far away from home.

I don't know a soul who's not been battered
Don't have a friend who feels at ease
Don't know a dream that's not been shattered
Or driven to its knees.
But it's all right, all right, We've lived so well so long
Still, when I think of the road we're traveling on,
I wonder what went wrong, I can't help it
I wonder what went wrong.

And I dreamed I was flying. I dreamed my soul rose
unexpectedly, and looking back down on me, smiled
reassuringly, and I dreamed I was dying.
And far above, my eyes could clearly see
The Statue of Liberty, drifting away to sea
And I dreamed I was flying.

We come on a ship we call the Mayflower,
We come on a ship that sailed the moon
We come at the age's most uncertain hour
And sing an American tune

But it's all right, its all right
You can't be forever blessed
Still, tomorrow's gonna be another working day
And I'm trying to get some rest,
That's all, I'm trying to get some rest.

-- Thanks, Paul Simon, for summing it up.

[skygazer]

8. I'll sing that one tomorrow

Today, the only one that keeps coming into my head is the one that goes, "It's the end of the world as we know it...."

but it ends, "and I feel fine" - I don't.

This morning was shock, tonight is sadness. Tomorrow will be anger.

[CO Liberal]

9. I Keep Thinking of THIS Song....

For What It's Worth
Stephen Stills, 1966

There's something happening here
What it is ain't exactly clear
There's a man with a gun over there
Telling me I got to beware

I think it's time we stop, children, what's that sound
Everybody look what's going down

There's battle lines being drawn
Nobody's right if everybody's wrong
Young people speaking their minds
Getting so much resistance from behind

I think it's time we stop, hey, what's that sound
Everybody look what's going down

What a field-day for the heat
A thousand people in the street
Singing songs and carrying signs
Mostly say, hooray for our side

It's time we stop, hey, what's that sound
Everybody look what's going down

Paranoia strikes deep
Into your life it will creep
It starts when you're always afraid
You step out of line, the man come and take you away

We better stop, hey, what's that sound
Everybody look what's going down
Stop, hey, what's that sound
Everybody look what's going down
Stop, now, what's that sound
Everybody look what's going down
Stop, children, what's that sound
Everybody look what's going down

http://www.clarkson.edu/~winklebh/vietnam2/buffalo.html

[JimmyJazz]

10. We are on the same page - that was on my mind all day

yesterday and I played on my real player! Ouch.