LittleClarkie
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Mon Sep-11-06 04:52 AM
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Phil Ochs made me cry today |
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Not to shabby for a dead guy...
Silent Soldiers on a silver screen
Framed in fantasies and dragged in dream
Unpaid actors of the mystery
The mad director knows that freedom will not make you free
And what's this got to do with me
I declare the war is over
It's over, it's over
Drums are drizzling on a grain of sand
Fading rhythms of a fading land
Prove your courage in the proud parade
Trust your leaders where mistakes are almost never made
And they're afraid that I'm afraid
I'm afraid the war is over
It's over, it's over
Angry artists painting angry signs
Use their vision just to blind the blind
Poisoned players of a grizzly game
One is guilty and the other gets the point to blame
Pardon me if I refrain
I declare the war is over
It's over, it's over
So do your duty, boys, and join with pride
Serve your country in her suicide
Find the flags so you can wave goodbye
But just before the end even treason might be worth a try
This country is to young to die
I declare the war is over
It's over, it's over
One-legged veterans will greet the dawn
And they're whistling marches as they mow the lawn
And the gargoyles only sit and grieve
The gypsy fortune teller told me that we'd been deceived
You only are what you believe
I believe the war is over
It's over, it's over
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Mon Sep-11-06 04:55 AM
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1. That is one of my favorite songs ever! |
LittleClarkie
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Mon Sep-11-06 05:26 AM
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2. I've always loved Phil, and this is one of my favorites too |
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of his. Another is "I Ain't Marchin' Any More"
But the lyrics are so DAMNED appropriate to our time and place in this song it hit me right between the eyes. He could be writing about RIGHT NOW.
The mark of a good writer, I reckon.
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Mon Sep-11-06 05:30 AM
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...that someone as young as you even knows who Phil Ochs was. I thought only old fogies like me had ever heard of him.
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Mon Sep-11-06 12:26 PM
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4. I only look young! LOL |
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Mon Sep-11-06 01:30 PM
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5. Aw heck I'm even too young to have heard of him. |
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But I went through a folk period at one point, and Phil Ochs is essential listening.
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