Monday, March 5, 2007

Juxtapostion

I was listening to some laid back music on my mp3 collection, and For What it's Worth by Buffalo Springfield came on. I like the sound of the song, so on a whim, I checked YouTube for a video. I found this:



Interested, I pulled up the lyrics for the song. These guys were Rage Against the Machine in the 1960's. We could take something from the message here:

There's something happening here
What it is ain't exactly clear
There's a man with a gun over there
Telling me I got to beware

I think it's time we stop, children, what's that sound
Everybody look what's going down
There's battle lines being drawn
Nobody's right if everybody's wrong

Young people speaking their minds
Getting so much resistance from behind
I think it's time we stop, hey, what's that sound
Everybody look what's going down
What a field-day for the heat
A thousand people in the street
Singing songs and carrying signs
Mostly say, hooray for our side
It's time we stop, hey, what's that sound
Everybody look what's going down
Paranoia strikes deep
Into your life it will creep
It starts when you're always afraid
You step out of line, the man come and take you away

We better stop, hey, what's that sound
Everybody look what's going down
Stop, hey, what's that sound
Everybody look what's going down
Stop, now, what's that sound
Everybody look what's going down
Stop, children, what's that sound
Everybody look what's going down


Unfortunately, what is happening here IS exactly clear - the battle lines WERE drawn - It DID start when we were afraid - And if we step out of line, the man WILL come and take us away.

Everybody look what's goin' down.

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