left is right

just purchased tickets
for
"Bring 'Em Home Now!"
a benefit concert
with
Michael Stipe
Rufus Wainwright
Fischerspooner
Peaches
and the ultimate rock star
Cindy Sheehan

March 20th
Ladies and Gentlemen
be there or be square
not a noble cause
but
a RIGHT cause
enough death
enough destruction

enough
enough
enough

OVER ONE TRILLION DOLLARS
spent on this war so far
call me crazy
but maybe some of that
OVER ONE TRILLION DOLLARS
could have gone to schools
call me crazy
but maybe some of that
OVER ONE TRILLION DOLLARS
could have gone to the environment
call me crazy
but maybe some of that
OVER ONE TRILLION DOLLARS
could have gone to New Orleans
or to America

to our highways
and our coast lines
to our cities
and our towns

some things just can't be forced on people
history will tell this tale
again and again

and we are not the world's police
because if we choose to be
then there is a WHOLE WORLD that needs policing

so pull out your check book
Mr. President
because as far as i can tell
it is people
excuse me
CORPORATIONS
like you
who are getting richer and richer
off of the death of others
and really that's the problem
DEATH

see, for some crazy reason
some of us loons
just can't wrap our minds around
invading a sovereign nation
that had never, ever done us harm
under false pretenses
and staying there
in the name of democracy
a concept that isn't understood or even wanted
by a majority of its people

in conclusion
Dick Cheney described the day
that he accidentally shot his friend in the face
as "one of the worst days of my life"
so what are we doing to the minds of
those men and women
who are fortunate enough to come home at all?
cause last time i checked
it wasn't bee-bee guns
that THEY were playing with

enough politics
for now
i'm sorry to carry on like this
lord knows, i could do it all day

if you listen to the deepest part of your heart
the part that guides you to do what's right
then it will lead the way

follow truth
understand pain
end war
now

in other concert news
i am COUNTING THE SECONDS to see this show...



literally COUNTING THE SECONDS