Our Founding Fathers Have Disowned Us...and "I've fallen and I can't get up!"

Hi. I might be assuming a bit if I wonder if anyone missed me over the past two weeks. My family and I have moved into a new home, and in the process of toting that barge and lifting that vail, I destroyed by back. It's the first significant back injury I've ever sustained--my only other back injury lasted for 3 days, while I've been close to bed-ridden for two weeks. "What a drag it is gettin' old."~~ Mick Jagger.


I was able to move everything into the house (with the much appreciated help of good friends--including our friends' daughter and friend to my own son--Jesse--who, at age 11, worked her butt off helping us move), but after all the boxes and furniture made it into the place, I collapsed. I went to a chiropractor, who did wonders for getting me up and walking again, but then the injury shifted to the other side of my back, and now both sides hurt like hell. I HATE IT! So, props to my dear wife for pulling more than her own weight these last two weeks and for putting up with me being basically useless since we moved in. The pain is slowly improving, or rather becoming less intense, so I am optimistic I'll be able to move around better soon--I mean, it hurts to sit in an upright position for longer than 30 minutes, it hurts to roll over in bed, it hurts to walk, to sit, to lie down, to breathe, to use the bathroom, to fart. You get the picture. And my wife, who never reads my blog and might never even see this about her, is a wonderfully supportive woman who deserves a whole lot better from me when I get back on my feet. And I vow to do the lion's share of tasks when I get better.


Also, it took nearly as long to get our internet connected and I'm disappointed in the massive reduction in speed and content exchange rate from my previous provider, so I might be switching ISPs again and be offline for even more time, but we haven't decided yet.


I have been using the time I have been convalescing by writing lyrics for the Spiderlegs album I'm trying to complete--a 6 year long project that has been delayed and postponed more times than I can possibly count due to everything from theft, health issues, financial issues, and issues with issues, and the issues' extended families, and...anyway, lyrically, I have hit the wall many times as far as coming up with anything worthwhile that matches the music I have produced and recorded--of which I am very proud, by the way--but yesterday, I wrote a bunch of stuff that seem to fit, but it was all very political and all sort of about the same specific set of issues I have with the political system. I don't want politics to be the dominant topic covered by the lyrics of the album (titled "Healing Is Unique to the Individual" with previously released tracks from it available for download FREE on MP3.com.au, or streamed at Facebook and MySpace). So, since they might or might not  be used lyrically on this project, but since this blog is a reflection of how I personally feel about politics, I'm publishing them here for the first time. The composition probably isn't  at the level it would be after being edited for fit the existing melodies or for better terminology, and I typically HATE writing to rhyme (preferring other devices such as strong metaphors, internal rhyme, and rhythm structures, etc.), but here they are for anyone who has cared to read this post up to this point.--jef

"Our Founding Fathers Have Disowned Us"

Our differences should not weaken us

They strengthen our uniqueness

Our differences are not to be catalysts for bitter divisiveness

When they fuel the inspiration for productive debate

There is no “right” or “wrong”—

          Except for “Right & Left”

There are only differences

We have so much more in common to unite us

Than any differences which could ever possibly divide us

Yet, that is what we have let happen; or made happen; or bought into

We have turned one of our greatest strengths into the most self-destructive weakness

by gathering to opposite sides to argue with all our might

which side’s differences are “wrong”, and which are “right”

Perfectly willing to fight among ourselves under the false perspective

          of “Left or Right”

So determined to “win” that we lose sight of the greater purpose

          why we united in the first place

That we hold sacred above all else

the rights which allow our differences to be our strengths

The strengths which make us unique & keep us free!

Cccccc

TURN OFF YOUR TV

Download the shows you watch

--illegally—

They are commercial-free

And without the flicker rate

Which lulls your defiant self to sleep

TURN OFF YOUR TV

It’s only there to misinform, then put you to sleep

Exaggerating rumors into manufactured, mass marketed fears

Never once revealing that what we really have to fear

Has always been here

TURN OFF YOUR TV

It will turn you against your neighbors, fellow citizens, your friends and family

With insignificant issues transformed into urgently fake debates
Intentionally meant to divide us

For divided, we were conquered very easily—

          WE WERE WATCHING TV!

Cccccc

RIGHT and LEFT are WRONG

It’s a fake debate meant to distract us

From the real threat imposed upon us by the banks and über-wealthy

While we are at each others’ throats over benign social issues & “moral” values

Über-Wealth kicks in our doors and takes away our property

While the puppet govt they pay to control takes away our rights

America’s once great Middle Class has been dismantled into

A disenfranchised poverty stricken class of minimum wage slaves—

The “unemployed” working class

We fulfill their prophesy by drinking and smoking their legal cancer poisons

When we eat their poison food chemicals

All of which make us ill, requiring we seek and consume pharmaceutical poisons

On top of all those other poisons with the end-result being

An extremely unhealthy population lacking the strength and energy to motivate them

To RISE in DEFIANCE—chemical castration of the masses

Held still hypnotically by the TV flicker rate

That says…

Stay still…you are ill…be docile…watch TV…go to sleep…

And allow the über-wealthy to take away everything we have left—

Including our rights

Cccccc

Kids today will never know a time

when they are not constantly watched their whole lives

And adults will soon forget they had a life once

When they were not watched all the time

Everyone on earth is a terrorist threat until rendered into compliance

It’s easier and requires less effort to watch TV or play games

Than to assemble as a direct act of defiance

The Republic was reorganized, dismantled and rebuilt

Into a corporate military-industrial oligarchic monstrosity

Democracy was taken out back and shot

replaced by unregulated plutocracy

CEOs wear the crowns once only helmed by kings

They control all the presidents, legislators, ministers, secretaries,

and generals in the world

Their lobbyist proxies write all the laws govts  pass and enforce
And propagandize through their well-paid media mouthpieces

OUR FOUNDING FATHERS HAVE DISOWNED US!!!

We willingly and with no resistance ceded OUR freedom to the Robber-Barons

Hypnotizing us with paper images of fools gold

They herded us, with no resistance, atop a paper mountain which is

          Unable to support our ever increasing dependence

We put these worthless paper images

ahead of the two most important pieces of paper in history:

one which declared our independence and
one which enumerated our rights

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