Some Song Lyrics & Things 

There's a lot of stuff I want to post today, but I have some work to do for my writing class, so I don't have a lot of time. Also, I'm a little angry because I've been locked out of my Syracuse e-mail account by "intruder lockout detection" or something. I have no idea what that means, so I'm hoping it'll reset soon. I want to post my thoughts on an article I just read, and I also have a short list of funny Scattegories answers that I thought some people would enjoy, but I'll only do those things if I have time. For now, I'm posting the lyrics to a song I wrote about the war in Iraq. Before you read them, I'll explain my position. I think the war was the right thing to do. When Dubya (that's what I call President Bush) announced that we were going to war, I wasn't sure what to think. I was kind of on both sides of the issue. On the one hand, I thought George Bush Sr. should've annihilated Hussein when he had the chance 12 years ago, and this seemed like a good way to finish what was begun. On the other hand, I thought this would probably be bad for the economy and put the country at risk. To tell you the truth, I never really gave a flying fokker (another pseudo-swear) about weapons of mass destruction. I knew he had used them once, and I figured that if he wouldn't let weapons inspectors in, he was probably hiding something, but I didn't really care. It wasn't until after the "shock and awe" campaign and the subsequent protests and negative news coverage that I realized how important this war was. Because so many liberals disagreed with it, I immediately assumed that it was probably a good thing, but then I saw "Horrors of Hussein" and "Sons of Saddam" on TV, and I realized just who we were up against. Saddam Hussein is a depraved, murderous, soulless monster, and nobody that evil should be allowed to live on this planet. His sons were almost as bad, and I personally think their deaths were too quick. They should've been buried alive or thrown into a giant meat grinder, or electrocuted to death, or beaten, or some other thing they did to their own people, and if we catch Saddam, we should do something so horrible to him that I won't even describe it here. Now that I think about it, I just watched the movie "Roger and Me" by Michael Moore (don't even get me started on that socialist loony), and it has a scene where a woman clubs a rabbit over the head, hangs it upside down from a tree, and proceeds to skin and gut it. We should do something like that to Hussein and keep his mustache as a trophy. However, we are Americans, and we deal with criminals in a humane way, so just shooting him in the face would accomplish that goal well enough. I'm pretty sure he'll suffer plenty where he's going. Anyway, I now support the war because no innocent human being deserves to be treated the way the Hussein regime treated the Iraqi people. It disgusts me to think that they actually had to live like that. What's worse, we've got morons like Sean Penn saying that Bush is worse than Hussein and America is a dictatorship. I've said it before, and I'll say it again: If America was like prewar Iraq, Sean Penn would be dead by now, because that's what it means to silence dissent! Having someone disagree with you is not the same as being killed because you spoke out against the government! Anyway, now that I've fulfilled the rant quota, here is the song I wrote to better explain my feelings on the subject. It's written in second person to anti-war pacifist lefties. Enjoy.

"Justified"
I keep hearing you say that we did something wrong
We interfered in a place where we didn't belong
And every time a new day arrives
We find we've lost a few more precious lives
But you forget about the ones they're fighting for
The weak, the sick, the hungry, the persecuted and the poor
Maybe you should imagine yourself in their place
Before you stir up controversy just to win a freaking race
(chorus)
It may not be going exactly as we planned
Good people are leaving home and losing their lives in a distant land
But just because a few of our nation's bravest are dead and gone
You can't claim that we've failed and have no right to carry on
Did you even see the things these people were forced to go through?
'Cause by the way you're acting, I'd assume you never knew
Psychotic, despotic, bloodthirsty, and worse he
Killed the innocent without blinking, so what are you thinking?
(chorus)
Think of their situation and put yourself in it
Just picture a world where you could die any minute
Where dictators build palaces and drive fancy cars
While you and your family lie out in the street and starve
You must be realistic, these people were sadistic
Just thinking about it's enough to make you feel sick
If you think the world was better when they were still around
Try digging your loved ones out of a hole in the ground
(chorus)

CHORUS:
How would you like it if your freedom was taken away?
Could you live in a place where you could disappear because of what you say?
You still have the right to disagree because of the people who died
But before you start to complain, just remember it's justified

So, what do you think? I've written 9 or 10 other songs, but this is the only one about the war, so I'm just posting it. The other ones are confidential. I don't want people stealing my lyrics before I get a chance to use them in a real band. Who says drummers can't be songwriters (actually, very few people say that, but they probably think it)? This would be a rock song, so other names for it include:
-Republican rock
-GOP grunge
-Conservative crunch
I really have to do some work now, so it's time for me to stop. Hopefully, I'll have time to post the other 2 things I have in mind, but I have 2 tests tomorrow, so that's probably not gonna happen. We'll see. Vote W in '04 (I know I will).