Luyện nghe bài hát The Winter of the Long Hot Summer

It all seemed so idiotic, all the accusations of
The fall we'll remember, capitulating silence
November before the winter of the long hot summer
Somewhere in the desert we raised the oil
And waited for the weather to get much
For the new wind to blow in the

We tried to the history in the region
The French legion, Imperialism,
Peter O'Toole and hate the Ayatollah all we learned in school
Not that we gave Hussein billion
Not of our new bed partner the
And of course no mention of the situation

It was how they steamrolled
They eighty percent approval
But was no one that I knew polled
No one had a reason for being in the
We waited for to speak up illegal build up
But no one wake up

Our representatives were Vanilli's
For corporate Dallas Cowboy Beverly
With perfect timing the politicians rhyming their
So nicely oil gold and my sediments precisely
We regretfully support the
I'm afraid there is no for more scrutiny
National preserve our community
Teflon opportunities were in profundant abundance

On January second the administration
Announced a recession had the Nation the highest quarterly
Earnings in ten were posted by Chevron
Meanwhile a budget was in our hands
As the deadline in the sand to an end

So much for the peace dividend one billion a day is we spent
And our grandchildren will pay for it the end
When schools are unfunded and kids don't get diplomas
They get for gun boat diplomacy disproportionately
Black or brown we see catchers for the slave master
Then the called up reservists

To active service left families nervous but more importantly broke nine Hundred a month but the check came late, army red you see
This golden opportunity, we the tube and read the newspaper
The propaganda of the gas masked
Was the proper slander to whip up the

The was lit and the lights were all faded
The pilots in night vision goggles and generals masturbated
'Til the two days later they invaded
Not a single T.V. expressed dissension or
made mention to the censorship of information

From our kinder and nation blinder and mentaler retardation
Disorientation, the pilots said bombs lit Baghdad
Like a tree, It was the Christian thing to do you see
didn't mention any casualties, no distinction between the real
And the proxy football analogies

We saw the hole, we watched the Super Bowl
We saw the scud missile, we watched Bud
We saw the yellow ribbons, saw in prison
We never saw films of the at eleven
Angela Davis the spectators

And shouting above a rumbling said
"If insist on bringing us down
Then let's shut the country down"
through the downtown
A thousand became participants
And we the drums of millions off in the distance

Rushing through the cities some of them did things that so pretty
Most were there for primal scream
men concentrated on the negative liked the jingoists more
Peaceful protesters up on the cutting room floor
casualties of the ratings war
More bombs dropped in World War II

On in both Asian invasions, new order persuasion
Business as for our nation
Could you imagine a fifty thousand dead
The of Stockton coffins locked in when we clocked in
Not to mention civilians, the loss of life on both
Pushed the limits of resilience the of blood in our nostrils
Fuel of the land of apostle

The blackness that covered the sky was not the thing
That brought a tear to the eye or the taste of anger to the
Of those too young to remember
Is better in a veteran's mind
the memory of the dying laying in a line
Is it the smell or the heaving and weeping
That keeps the soldier from sleeping as he sings the orphan's

When the soldiers put down bayonets
The are chained to the marionettes
Emir of Kuwait back in his jet
We replace the dead with new
Will we hate who did the shelling
Or will we hate who weren't willing to do the killing

When the leaders of the bald eagles come home to
Will we a song of praise and indebtedness
For our deliverance from or will we sing a song of sadness
For the dreaded debt this delivered us people