**DIAL UP WARNING (LOST OF PICS)***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 all flown in the last 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
For I know that the hypnotized never lie




There's nothing in the street
Looks any different to me
And the slogans are replaced, by-the-bye



And the party on the left
Is now the party 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






Yeaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah!





Meet the new boss




Same as the old boss

Now if only America would remember!!!


That last picture scares me!!!

the handwriting is on the wall -- we just don't read it.

Which is why they hide the photos of the dead in Iraq, and the "News" on TV never shows the dead coming home like it did in the 60s. It is also why the government knows just how to use fear to keep people under control. It is also why schools across the country are cutting back on Social Studies, and the books are being revised to look like the books we learned from in the 50s and early 60s.

went to only allowed places. It was the method of access granted to the USA's arms testing battlefield in Panama. Newsroom management saved a ton of money thanks to uncle sam, and the media got free behavior training right there in the Panamanian "battlefield".

Rich neighborhoods and resorts were untouched while poor civilians were slaughtered. And the media reported just what BushCo allowed. Now ...well I get to pissed off.

Control the propaganda tube and you control the tube feeders.

Social Studies, being replaced for history, cultural - just like back in the 50s and 60s.

Still can't believe it's happening all over again. Carbon copied to a tee, but way, way worse.

I've never seen it before.

Also that creepy kid in the "If your heart isn't in the U.S" picture. What are the odds he ended up a serial killer?

:cry:

You missed an excellent opportunity to post a pic of Cheney's drink-by victim . . .

more of the same...
http://forwhatitsworth.cf.huffingtonpost.com

i can feel it in the air...

same here.

That's what its going to take to reclaim democracy, to run this pack of vermin out of Washington, to dislodge the Bush** Cabal from power.

They have circumvented the electoral process.
They no longer recognize the authority of Congress
Thy ignore the Constitution.

Won't Get Fooled Again has been listed in the UK Independent Newspaper as the number one song with - as I understand it - the political message most often misunderstood - in this case the message is said to be 'conservative', a word that may mean different things in the UK and USA.

Of course the song has no party-allied political message at all. It is not precisely a song that decries revolution - it suggests that we will indeed fight in the streets - but that revolution, like all action can have results we cannot predict. Don't expect to see what you expect to see. Expect nothing and you might gain everything.

The song was meant to let politicians and revolutionaries alike know that what lay in the centre of my life was not for sale, and could not be co-opted into any obvious cause.

This was everything to do with what I believe to be the power of music and congregation and nothing to do with what any individual might do to use the language of modern rock and pop to express their privately held views. I suppose the 'universal' themes behind rock, that I have always espoused, can emerge over time looking vacuous, unspecific, vague and dilletantish. But despite its looseness, and its decadence, rock has lasted a lifetime, and still seems to prevail as the impudent portal for the naive complaints of the hopeful young.

From 1971 - when I wrote Won't Get Fooled Again - to 1985, there was a transition in me from refusal to be co-opted by activists, to a refusal to be judged by people I found jaded and compliant in Thatcher's Britain. Peter Gabriel and I spoke often on the phone about work we were doing with David Astor, Neville Vincent, Donald Woods and Lord Goodman to raise money to help spring Nelson Mandela from gaol in South Africa. We realized quickly that what we were doing was buying guns for the ANC, an organisation that some on the far right believed were no better than the IRA. Nelson was sprung, so everything turned out well. But when in the mid-nineties, one of the very last IRA bombs went off in a theatre in London close to where my musical of Tommy was about to open, I decided my karma had come around full circle.

Not all action to change the world has to be trumpeted from the rooftops by Bono editing the Independent newspaper (though it was a fantastic and audacious stunt equal to Lord Matthew Evans giving me an editorial chair at Faber and Faber in 1985), or from the scaffolding of a rock festival. Roger Daltrey does indeed play rock 'n' roll with Richard "Dirty" Desmond (who owns some big newspapers among other things), but he himself gets down and dirty visiting hospitals where the teenage cancer victims for whom they raise money struggle to survive. He holds them, laughs with them, and gives them hope. This is One-to-One stuff of the kind that I find I am incapable. I can meet and speak with survivors of sexual abuse, drug abuse and the victims of all kinds of domestic violence, but I have what I now know is a quite common problem with those who might suddenly die on me in a hospital, clinic or hospice.

I am just a song-writer. The actions I carry out are my own, and are usually private until some digger-after-dirt questions my methods. What I write is interpreted, first of all by Roger Daltrey. Won't Get Fooled Again - then - was a song that pleaded '….leave me alone with my family to live my life, so I can work for change in my own way….'. But when Roger Daltrey screamed as though his heart was being torn out in the closing moments of the song, it became something more to so many people. And I must live with that. In the film Summer of Sam the song is used to portray white-boy 'street' idiocy; a kind of fascist absurdity, men swinging their arms over air-guitars and smashing up furniture. Spike Lee told my manager that '…he deeply understood Who music….'. What he understood was what he himself - like so many others - had made it. He saw an outrage and frustration, even a judgment or empty indictment in the song that wasn't there. What is there is a prayer.

Pete Townshend...

http://www.petetownshend.co.uk/diary/display.cfm?id=285&zone=diary

We don't get fooled again

thank you for putting it together.

do they listen to lyrics beyond the chorus?

Bruce actually told Ronald Reagan to stop using his song during his '84 campaign. I don't thing they even got a clue by listening to the words, it's an excellent anti-war song.

Lol, first album I ever bought in fact. Paperboy money got it for me. Wonder what ever happened to it?

that kid's eyes just scream psychopath. :scared:

And the mom is no less creeped out as well...

Great post.

These FUCKERS MUST BE REMOVED FROM OFFICE, I will not lie down for these basturds..........

Noice!!!

That last one is supposed to be the new Iraqi flag, yes? What a huge collection of weasels that represents, eh?

Because I just don't feel it here in Oklahoma.
If change is a-comin', please clue me in before it happens!:)

Sometimes I feel like I don't even live in the same country as most on DU! I often wonder what it must be like to live, say, in the Northeast or even in California. ;)

About the only thing I have been able to take some comfort in with respect to "signs of changing times" is the fact that I hardly see ANY bumper stickers for "W" or "Bush/Cheney" nowadays. I know we couldn't expect people to be placing NEW signs on their cars with "Bush/Cheney" on them since the Chimperor can't (thank heaven!) run again. But it says something to me that apparently most who DID display such a sign during the campaign of '04 have gone to some trouble to remove it!

it's hard for me to be politically active in Oklahoma, because I wonder what the point is. The little old lady across the street comes over periodically to talk about politics with me-she actually freaked me out at first, coming to the door one night and asking my husband if I lived there. Fortunately, Norman is fairly liberal, and even those folks that aren't are at least willing to talk civilly. But the news here is atrocious. I guess I should not be so defeatist.
I miss the political atmostphere of Los Angeles.