Tuesday, April 12, 2011
Identity Crisis In America
Bill Nye sings his death song for America.
I cannot find the quote, so any help with attribution would be appreciated, but the gist is:
Guess what? This time, you are the Indians.
Word:
You finally found the mainstream
In the middle of your life
You tapped into a vein
Of endless gold chains
Now you’re locked up tight
Tearing down the middle of it
Splitting it right in half
Bobbing up and down the waves
Like a runaway slave
On a huck finn raft
Chorus:
Take your wife
Take your family
Take your gun
Running through the woods
And the burned out neighborhoods
Looking for someone
A warrior of your tribe
A place you can hide
’til the war has begun
’cause in the fields before the flood
You’ll be spilling blood
Like a native son
Where you gonna run to
There ain’t no underground
If only you could fly
You’d cut across the sky
Like a rifle round
Oh, who are your people
And where is your homeland
’cause they’re dying side by side
At the river of pride
Where we tried to take a stand
Chorus twice
In the fields before the flood
You’ll be spilling blood
Like a native son
(h/t to Alvie for the musical reference)
Check those lyrics again...
ReplyDelete"A warrior from your tribe"
History is cruel irony.
ReplyDeleteNative Americans in the sense that the new Americans no longer have the land under their feet as their own domain anymore? You mean like Texas allowing China partial ownership of the oil and gas beneath them?
ReplyDeleteWhen it comes to the legacy for future generations, trading that flat screen TV for title and access wasn't any different than the colorful glass beads.
Keep in mind John Hiatt wrote this song over 15 years ago.
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CA,
ReplyDeleteThank you for the link.
I believe the quote came from ProLibertate:
ReplyDeletehttp://freedominourtime.blogspot.com/2010/07/eminent-domain-were-all-indians-now.html
Reference was to eminent domain seizure of land.
ranamacar
"When it comes to the legacy for future generations, trading that flat screen TV for title and access wasn't any different than the colorful glass beads."
ReplyDeleteBingo.
AP
I got no indentity crisis. I am a man who is going to live until I die. And I am going to live as a free man. Blood and hell will follow those who can't understand that.
ReplyDeleteBravo Encore nice wah wah on that hot guitar!
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