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Thread #56867 Message #892053
Posted By: InOBU
17-Feb-03 - 10:53 AM
Thread Name: BS: Vote to Impeach Bush
Subject: LYR ADD: Ghosts of our nation - Lorcan Otway-InOBU
I feel a song coming on...
Ghosts of our nation word, Lorcan Otway all rights reserved Tune The Shamrock Shore.
Farewell to the land, of Jefferson and Franklin Farewell to the dreams of the good Thomas Paine We have sacrificed our freedom, on the altar of security and I fear we may not soon see the likes of both again, For this land was more than a flag or a slogan this land was more than its rocks or its clay This land was a gift given us by great thinkers a dream which lesser men have now cast away
The rule of law is hobbled and no rights are now held sacred except the right to steal and plunder in the name of corporate greed While bible thumping patriots, in the guise of elder statesmen rob for the wealth of few from the people in most need Now our prisons are full of the men of no property and back alleys are filled with the hopeless and insane but still we are told, that this is the land of liberty and told to ignore those whom our country causes pain
Who can hold up their head, and proud proclaim their homeland while leaders whet the assassins knife by stealth upon the road this is not the act of a land of law and of justice no mater who the target, we must live by legal code What light of hope now shines in the halls of Philadelphia what words of bravery speak out from the senate floor what black thoughts now taint with blood, the hopes of a nation when politician pimps make sweet liberty their whore
But I cast my gaze, to the hills of our history, while I stake my few hopes on the words of our past For while a spark shines on, in the ashes of these ruins the light of freedom's fires may dispel the shadows cast And each one of you, who remembers where we came from proclaim your love liberty and reject the cynics sneer cast fear upon the pyre of the promises of tyrants turn away from craven cowards, and true hearts now draw near.