Tuesday 13 October 2015

Candy And Bubblegum.

        From "Destroy Everything", not new, but still relevant, I particularly like the lines:
Sidewalk chalk writers leave notes for our leaders
who cover our eyes with candy and bubblegum.
      How true, so of course that means you have to work hard at seeing the truth. 


Sidewalk chalk writers leave notes for our leaders
who cover our eyes with candy and bubblegum

They hear what we’re saying, but they
choose not to listen at all


So we choose a different voice
we chew on our choices
and swallow the knowledge and the experience
that we make for ourselves


And we savor
the flavor of knowing
of trying and doing
of coming and going


From this here cold harbor
where we ship in the labor
to export our culture
in favor of giving ourselves


Welcome to the state
here is your flag
and your minimum wage
just be grateful for what you’re given


Our teachers are telling us
your prayers will be answered
as soon as the cancer has
eaten away at your soul


So we’re waiting
and our savior is hiding
but there have been sightings
on billboards and in federal laws


And business is fruitful
its engineered for the mouthful
the chemicals might be harmful
but you will not notice the taste


If you need more
there’s plenty left over
enough to feed everyone
and plenty to be thrown away

Visit ann arky's home at www.radicalglasgow.me.uk
 

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