Won’t Get Fooled Again?
Dunno about you guys but hearing this within the last few days? Nothing new is happening. It’s just what you do with the events you are stuck in. Does any of this sound familiar? It should. If not prescient……..I’ve never been so disturbed by a song, especially one that is about thirty years old. Main question? How long will we fall for the bullshit, and how long will we put up with it….and how long till we decide We 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
For the best version find the “Kids Are Alright” video version of this classic. And again? Why doesn’t this sound dated?
Meet the new boss, same as the old boss?…..and well, hell, all the rest of it. “The beards have all grown longer overnight’ seems downright precog.
Don’t get fooled again.
Next big question as slaughter goes down in Libya, Bahrain et al is , uw badeen? Now what?
Are we gonna be the next version of ‘the hypnotized never lie”? Do ya?
And no, that’ get on your knees and pray ” s not an Islamist refernce….its a desperate one. The ‘beards have all grown longer overnight” is, though.
peace all
