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10 years ago
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When I find myself in times of trouble, father Francis has this to say: there ain't no way to delay that trouble comin' every day.
If you know the words, sing along!
One of the things I love the most about it is that in a single song, he takes a swing at rioters that destroy their own neighborhoods and smash the local markets and shop owners, the media falling over themselves to get it on TV, ignorant people out to cause harm to everyone else and finally at the great society that keeps people in crap jobs just to keep on living another day. Unless, of course, your uncle owns the store...
It was true when Zappa wrote it after watching too much TV coverage of the Watts Riots, and 50 years later, it's still as fresh and relevant as it ever was.
If you know the words, sing along!
One of the things I love the most about it is that in a single song, he takes a swing at rioters that destroy their own neighborhoods and smash the local markets and shop owners, the media falling over themselves to get it on TV, ignorant people out to cause harm to everyone else and finally at the great society that keeps people in crap jobs just to keep on living another day. Unless, of course, your uncle owns the store...
It was true when Zappa wrote it after watching too much TV coverage of the Watts Riots, and 50 years later, it's still as fresh and relevant as it ever was.
And they say it served 'em right
Because a few of them are white,
And it's the same across the nation
Black and white discrimination
Yellin' "You can't understand me!"
'N all that other jazz they hand me
In the papers and TV and
All that mass stupidity
That seems to grow more every day
Each time you hear some nitwit say
He wants to go and do you in
Because the color of your skin
Just don't appeal to him
(No matter if it's black or white)
Because he's out for blood tonight!
It's harder than ever to believe it, not with cameras catching the police in action, dropping a weapon at a dead man's feet and reporting he'd grabbed for it, or rolling up on a child in a park and gunning him down point blank, followed by reports they'd been charged at and had no choice but to shoot. How many times have those narratives been used on police reports, these actions no sane person would take becoming so common among 'those people' that they became stereotypes? Nothing's different, save for the cameras that give the lie to 150 years of state sanctioned murder by law enforcement.