I woke up this day after the election and this is all I had to say.
The Ugly Truth
My country tis of thee, but what have we become
The ugly truth rears its head
We settle every score with jackboots or a gun
Sweet reason’s dead
How easily we stray from cheerful hopefulness
Into a maelstrom of malaise
How do we think that we can make much more of less
By saying nay
Every day we wake up to another bout of blues
Every paper in the land has given up on news
Every time we hear the truth we only get confused
We’d rather hear a pretty lie than hear the ugly truth
The wise men tell us that we’ve been through this before
The politics of deja vu
Are we misguided to believe there must be more
Than the ugly truth
©November 2010 Frank Luck
This morning a friend of mine put it this way, “Change we can’t believe in”.
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the ugly truth
I woke up this day after the election and this is all I had to say.
The Ugly Truth
My country tis of thee, but what have we become
The ugly truth rears its head
We settle every score with jackboots or a gun
Sweet reason’s dead
How easily we stray from cheerful hopefulness
Into a maelstrom of malaise
How do we think that we can make much more of less
By saying nay
Every day we wake up to another bout of blues
Every paper in the land has given up on news
Every time we hear the truth we only get confused
We’d rather hear a pretty lie than hear the ugly truth
The wise men tell us that we’ve been through this before
The politics of deja vu
Are we misguided to believe there must be more
Than the ugly truth
©November 2010 Frank Luck
This morning a friend of mine put it this way, “Change we can’t believe in”.
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