Finally! A song that makes you look forward to "Have You Forgotten"!

[jmowreader]

Roxie Dean's "A Soldier's Wife."

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gzv00v5UojI

Since she's never actually BEEN one, how would she know?

[paulsby]

1. the song sucks

but an artist doesn't have to live it, to write about it.

johnny cash (probably my all time favorite singer/songwriter) never went to prison when he wrote folsom blues. he had never killed a man in reno just to watch him die, either.

and earl (a progressive country artist if there ever was one) wrote a song from the perspective of johnny walker lindh (which he got a lot of crap for). however, earl is not a taliban trained terrorist.

ice-t wrote a song from the perspective of a "cop killer". to my knowledge, ice-t never killed a cop.

i totally agree with you that the song SUCKS. i loved south park's riff on "have you forgotten" ... 9/11 9/11 9/11...

but part of being an artist is writing about other's experiences, since they make interesting songs.

not to mention that writers do this too, of course.