Luyện nghe bài hát The Winter of the Long Hot Summer

It all so idiotic, all the accusations of unpatriotic
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 better
For the new wind to blow in the

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

It was amazing how they
They said percent approval
But there was no one I knew polled
No one had a reason for in the Gulf
We waited for congress to up illegal build up
But no one wake up

Our representatives were Milli
For corporate Dallas Beverly Hillbillies
With perfect timing the politicians rhyming their
So oil gold and sand my sediments precisely
We regretfully the lunacy
I'm there is no time for more scrutiny
National unity preserve our
Teflon election opportunities were in profundant

On January second the Bush
Announced a recession had stricken the Nation the highest
Earnings in ten years were by Chevron
Meanwhile a was placed in our hands
As the in the sand came to an end

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

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

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

From our kinder and gentler nation blinder and mentaler
Disorientation, the pilots said their bombs lit
Like a Christmas tree, It was the thing to do you see
didn't mention any casualties, no distinction between the real
And the only 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 pilots in
We never saw of the dead at eleven
Davis addressed the spectators

And shouting above a rumbling said
"If they insist on us down
Then let's the whole country down"
through the downtown
A hundred thousand became
And we heard the drums of off in the distance

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

On in both Asian invasions, new world persuasion
Business as for our nation
Could you imagine a hundred 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
Fuel of the fossil land of

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

When the soldiers put down bayonets
The strings are chained to the
of Kuwait gets back in his jet
We replace the dead with new
Will we hate who did the shelling
Or will we hate those who willing to do the killing

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