Dean's World

I wish I hand the bandwidth to host an online radio station. I really do. But I look at 2004 and I think: "There is no song that can capture where we are today better than this." I wish I could provide you with a link to hear it. Yet this is where we are today, no doubt about it:

We'll be fighting in the street

With our children at our feet

And the morals that we worshipped will be gone

And the men who spurred us on

Sit in judgement of our wrongs

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 were 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

Though I know that the hypnotized never lie

YEAH!!!!!!

There's nothing in the streets

Looks any different to me

And the slogans are replaced, by-the-bye

And the parting on the left

Is now a parting 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

Don't get fooled again!!

No, no!!!

Yeaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah!

Meet the new boss!

Same as the old boss!

We just need Pete Townshend's guitar and Roger Daltry's scream to make it real.

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Arnold Harris (mail):

You get fooled again and again, but just by your own expectations.

Arnold Harris
Mount Horeb WI

9.18.2004 6:16pm

DSmith (mail) (www):

It's exactly appropriate. Almost prescient. Was it really *that* obvious, already, in the mid-60s, how the Left and the Youth Revolutioon was going to turn out when they grew up and got the power?

9.18.2004 11:33pm

Plunge (mail) (www):

Classic, classic song! A message that is just as important today.

Now you've got me pulling out my old WHO lps.

Thanks Dean.

Thief (mail) (www):

Dean...

I've put up a new playlist on my RadioBlog. When I got to thinking about it, that's the song the blogosphere is singing this week. It just sort of went from there...

Anyway, enjoy.

9.19.2004 4:26am

Ironbear (mail) (www):

"I wish I could provide you with a link to hear it. Yet this is where we are today, no doubt about it:" - Dean

You mean to tell me there's actually people out there who've never heard and don't own a copy of Don't Get Fooled Again?

Good lord. THAT'S rather scary in and of itself, Dean.

9.19.2004 5:30am

Mr E Poet (mail) (www):

OK, I've thought about this.

Don't Get Fooled Again is a good one, and it has energy and a valid message. But if I had to pick the song that best describes the current climate, it would be from The Who, but it would be Eminence Front, from the album It's Hard.

People Forget, indeed.

9.21.2004 7:45am

Commenting on Dean's World is a privilege, not a right. Dean is your host, you are his guest, and you should behave in that fashion. Dean is not your babysitter, nor is he your punching bag. Please remember this. In general, you are free to disagree with anyone on any subject you wish, but abusive behavior will not be tolerated.

Of course we all lose our tempers now and then. Dean freely admits to being imperfect in this regard, which is why regulars to this establishment will generally be cut more slack than people who we don't know very well.

Still: behave like an adult, or go find somewhere else to play. Thanks.