Our song this week explores Guantanamo's undoubtable future as one of those museums where people talk in hushed tones and walk with slumped, ashamed posture. Enjoy "Museum of Mistakes."
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Museum of Mistakes
Somewhere down the line when the fevers quiet down
When I'm twice as old, as old as I am now
We'll step out off the dock and sail the guilty seas
A hundred miles south of the comfort of the keys
Plexiglass displays of the dead, reenactments of the scene
Of hoods devoid of heads and jumpsuits tangerine
And the means, as of my understand were never really up for debate
Cast aside, as we shook all our decency off for security's sake
And besides, once you get started it's a real tough habit to break
Heads will drop and voices will shake
at the Museum of Mistakes
We'll walk from cell to cell, shieded from the sun
Like the tour Alcatraz, with shame instead of fun
Perhaps a list of names will be etched into a wall
Of those who got caught up in the mercenary's call
And it's fine to play out all hands the same no matter how high the stakes
It's a grind to mount a defense in the face of these charges opaque
In a shrine filled with buckets of water and hours left standing awake
There's only so much amends you can make
In the Museum of Mistakes
There's a line between credible threats and just being in the wrong time and place
And in time these roped off exhibits will elicit our collective distaste
And remind that once you get started it's a real tough habit to break
Heads will drop and voices will shake
at the Museum of Mistakes
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You are so right you scare me sometimes.. we can't afford to stay the course one minute longer. There is just way too much at stake, our children, our place in the world economy as a whole.
We have spent far too much time dawdling and doing the wrong thing, it's time we, the citizens of America set things right.Because we are the only ones who can.
Kristy
P.S. Harmonica very nice touch
What do the perpetrators care, they won't be the ones that tour the shameful factory...only caring people will tour.
After the Holocaust we all said "Never Again"...and here it is AGAIN!
All hail Herr Bush!
Of hoods devoid of heads and jumpsuits tangerine"
The imagery is mind blowing, and the song has been in my head for days.
This is the kind of songwriting that ends up making records like Foo Fighters' Coulour and the Shape.
And while Im thrilled about the music, I am indeed ashamed of its subject.
Props, Max.