(Glad I'm) Not A Kennedy by Shona Laing
I think this is a very sad beautiful song.
(Glad I'm) Not A Kennedy
by Shona Laing 1988 - genre? Chart Info & Lyrics
Lyrics by: Shona Laing *
# Debut Chart
14 Sep '88 Modern Rock
Lyrics
Living on through politics
Body-guarded, heart in bits
A blue-eyed honesty
Indigo injury
The family tree is felled
Bereavement worn so well
Giving up on certainty
Wilderness society
Wearing the fame like a loaded gun
Tied up with a rosary
I'm glad I'm not a Kennedy
Imagine being a Kennedy
Rule without remedy
To watch your family die
The world loves a sacrifice
Prophets longing for the three
Lyrics courtesy Top40db.
Honouring the tragedy
They hunger for the crime
The privilege to take a life
Wearing the fame like a loaded gun
Tied up with a rosary
Ooh, I'm glad I'm not a Kennedy
(JFK Speech)
...and is not peace basically
A matter of human rights?
The right to live out our lives
Without fear of devastation?
The right to breathe air
As nature provided it?
The right of future generations
To a healthy existence?
Let us if we can step back from
The shadows of war and seek out
The way of peace...
I love the look in your eyes
I can see your soul sometimes and we laugh
When we try too hard we stop and start
Oh imagine being a Kennedy
I'm glad I'm not a Kennedy
Wearing the fame like a loaded gun
Tied up with a rosary
I'm glad I'm not a Kennedy
Imagine being a Kennedy
Ooh I'm glad I'm not a Kennedy
(JFK Speech)
...the cost of freedom is always high,
Yet one path we shall never choose
- that is the path of surrender or submission.
When a man's way please the lord,
The scriptures tell us,
‘He maketh even his enemies
To be at peace with him'.
We will not prematurely or unnecessarily
Risk the course of worldwide nuclear war
In which even the fruits of victory
Would be ashes in our mouths
Ashes in our mouths...
Ashes in our mouths...
Ashes in our mouths...
Lyrics from Top 40Db
1 Comments:
JFK was assassinated just three days before I turned 16; in just 2 days, Oswald was identified as the shooter, arrested, and, in turn, assassinated by Jack Ruby. Before I could legally drive, I knew that more people than Osawld had been involved in killing JFK. The following September, the Warren Commission Report began, for me, forty five years of understanding that electoral politics is a part of our National Security State marionette theater, and that unseen manipulators can arrange for any particular puppet, from the President to Pat Tillman, to be "written out" of the drama. Forty five years of the taste of ashes, and no prospect of a palate cleanser in the rest of my lifetime.
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