Saturday, January 1, 2011

Bright Eye's - Four Winds

Your class, your caste, your country, sect, your name or your tribe
There's people always dying trying to keep them alive
There's bodies decomposing in containers tonight
In an abandoned building where
The squatters made a mural of a Mexican girl
With fifteen cans of spray paint in a chemical swirl
She's standing in the ashes at the end of the world
Four Winds blowing through her hair

But when Great Satan's gone... the Whore of Babylon...
She just can't sustain the pressure where it's placed
She caves

The Bible's blind. The Torah's deaf. The Qu'ran is mute.
If you burned them all together you’d get close to the truth
Still they’re pouring over Sanskrit under Ivy League moons
While shadows lengthen in the sun
Cast on a school and meditation built to soften the times
And hold us at the center while the spiral unwinds
It's knocking over fences, crossing property lines
Four Winds cry until it comes

It's the Sum of Man slouching towards Bethlehem
A heart just can't contain all of that empty space
It breaks. It breaks. It breaks.

Well I went back by rented Cadillac and company jet
Like a newly orphaned refugee retracing my steps
All the way to Cassadaga to commune with the dead
They said, "You'd better look alive"

And now it’s off to old Dakota where a genocide sleeps
In the Black Hills, the Badlands, the calloused East
I buried my ballast. I made my peace.

Her Four Winds leveling the pines

But when Great Satan's gone, the Whore of Babylon
She just can't remain with all that outer space
She breaks. She breaks. She caves. She caves.

8 comments:

  1. Wow... That's a cheery song. I guess it's about JFK? or is it fictional? It's really emotional.
    well, bye

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  2. Am I going crazy? I could have sworn that you posted a song about a president dying...
    This one is neat too, but a different tone. It reads as really angry.
    bye

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  3. Okay, for those of you wondering I have changed my song several times but I assure you that this is my final choice for a song.

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  4. Which of these is the topic of your first paper?

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  5. Squatting is the topic for my first paper. Unfortunately when you had checked my page earlier I had not published my paper onto my blog yet. But I have now.

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  6. Don't forget to give me a post that explains your Compare/contrast paper--what you are going to compare and how you are going to compare it.

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  7. never heard of this song before. sounds good, wood-wood.

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  8. wow wood-wood. i really like this song...it's not like most songs that just randomly spit out lyrics, like Feather said, it tells a story. good job.

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