Luyện nghe bài hát The Winter of the Long Hot Summer

It all seemed so idiotic, all the of unpatriotic
The fall always remember, capitulating silence
Election before the winter of the long hot summer
Somewhere in the desert we raised the oil
And for the weather to get much better
For the new to blow in the storm

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

It was amazing how steamrolled
They said eighty approval
But was no one that I knew polled
No one had a reason for in the Gulf
We waited for congress to speak up illegal up
But no one wake up

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

On January second the administration
Announced a recession had stricken the the highest quarterly
Earnings in ten years were 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 what we
And our grandchildren pay for it 'til the end
When schools are unfunded and kids don't get their
They get used for gun boat disproportionately
Black or brown we see bullet catchers for the slave
Then the conservatives up reservists

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

The stage was lit and the lights all faded
The in night vision goggles Kuwaited and generals masturbated
'Til the fifteenth two days later invaded
Not a single T.V. station dissension or
Hardly made mention to the censorship of

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

We saw the hole, we watched the Super Bowl
We saw the missile, we watched Bud commercials
We saw the ribbons, saw pilots in prison
We saw films of the dead at eleven
Angela Davis addressed the

And shouting above a generator said
"If they on bringing us down
Then let's shut the whole down"
through the downtown
A hundred thousand participants
And we heard the drums of off in the distance

Rushing the cities some of them did things that weren't so pretty
Most there for primal scream therapy
News men concentrated on the negative liked the more
protesters ended up on the cutting room floor
Nintendo of the ratings war
More bombs dropped than in War II

On in both Asian invasions, new world persuasion
Business as usual for our
Could you a hundred fifty thousand dead
The city of coffins locked in when we clocked in
Not to mention civilians, the loss of on both sides
Pushed the limits of resilience the of blood in our nostrils
of the fossil land of apostle

The blackness that covered the sky was not the thing
That brought a tear to the eye or the of anger to the tongues
Of those too young to Vietnam
Is heroin in a veteran's mind
Than the of the dying laying in a line
Is it the smell or the shadows and weeping
That keeps the soldier from as he sings the orphan's lullaby

When the soldiers put down bayonets
The strings are to the marionettes
Emir of Kuwait gets in his jet
We the dead with new cadets
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 sing a of praise and indebtedness
For our from evil or will we sing a song of sadness
For the dreaded debt this delivered us people