A Song For The 99% - Written 7 Months After The Kent State Massacre

[WillyT]

And ya know what's curious about this song ???

At many of the lyric sites... the last two lines are expunged.



Quicksilver Messenger Service - What About Me
Written By: Jesse Oris Farrow / From The Album: "What About Me"
Recorded: October 8, 1970 / Released: December, 1970


You poisoned my sweet water.
You cut down my green trees.
The food you fed my children
Was the cause of their disease.
My world is slowly fallin' down
And the air's not good to breathe.
And those of us who care enough,
We have to do something...

(Chorus)
Oh... oh What you gonna do about me?
Oh... oh What you gonna do about me?

Your newspapers,
They just put you on.
They never tell you
The whole story.
They just put your
Young ideas down.
I was wonderin' could this be the end
Of your pride and glory?

(Chorus)
I work in your factory.
I study in your schools.
I fill your penitentiaries.
And your military too!
And I feel the future trembling,
As the word is passed around.
"If you stand up for what you do believe,
Be prepared to be shot down."

(Chorus)
And I feel like a stranger
In the land where I was born
And I live like an outlaw.
And I'm always on the run...
And I'm always getting busted
And I got to take a stand...
I believe the revolution
Must be mighty close at hand...

(Chorus)
I smoke marijuana
But I can't get behind your wars.
And most of what I do believe
Is against most of your laws
I'm a fugitive from injustice
But I'm goin' to be free.
'Cause your rules and regulations
They don't do the thing for me

(Chorus)
And I feel like a stranger
In the land where I was born
And I live just like an outlaw.
And I'm always on the run.
And though you may be stronger now, my time will come around.
You keep adding to my numbers, as you shoot my people down.

(Chorus) (3 times)

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Link: http://www.lyrics007.com/Quicksilver%20Messenger%20Service%20Lyrics/What%20About%20Me%20Lyrics.html

Videos: http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=quicksilver+messenger+service+what+about+me&oq=quicksilver+&aq=3&aqi=g10&aql=&gs_sm=c&gs_upl=8697l19611l0l22165l39l34l5l15l4l0l323l2559l0.1.7.2l11l0

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[livetohike]

1. Classic and I love QMS

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[WillyT]

2. Thank You !!!

I love 'em too!

:hi:

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[femrap]

3. K and R

We're right back in 1970. How did we get lost? Did killing the 4 at Kent State end the revolution?

Maybe the entire Oil Embargo was manufactured so to stop it....I don't know.

[Luminous Animal]

4. As DUer sabrina said earlier today commenting on the rebuilding of the OWS library...

"Why do they have to destroy everything that is beautiful? From the environment to people, to any good things the people try to do?

The people rebuild, they destroy."

[WillyT]

5. + 1,000,000,000... What You And Sabrina Said !!!

And... because ugly cannot countenance beauty.

All throughout history...

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