The Hounds [Video]

We're a little late to the party on calling McCain/Palin out on all their hard work firing up the ugliest tendencies in their supporters, but this venture into dub reggae territory is our contribution.

Hounds

We're saying what we're saying, do what you're going to do with it
A slur or a slaying, we've got nothing to do with it
You can phone in contrition, Hollywood Listerine
Wash you mouth with detergent, your hands will never get that clean

'Cause when they call out the hounds there's no calling them back
Without blood on their mouths or a corpse on their backs
And I can hear all the howls for miles around
But it still takes a caller to call out the hounds

Derringers, Berettas, old movie Tommy guns
To finish up a vendetta that you're going to leave undone
No court would convict you, I'll hold you responsible
For an uptick in tension or worse, something far more demonstrable

'Cause when they call out the hounds there's no calling them back
Without blood on their mouths or a corpse on their backs
And I can hear all the howls for miles around
But it still takes a caller to call out the hounds

'Cause when they call out the hounds there's no calling them back
So duck your head out of bounds and brace for attack
Long after it's over, the odor will still stick around
In a faint ugly echo from when you called out the hounds

Max and the Marginalized are a band and a blog. We do a song every week on the Huffington Post, all 53 of which are available for download here at our site. Add us on Facebook or MySpace.

Comments

[bayside]

Very nice. Hounds is too nice a word..

[Ssebo]

This video shows why Obama will win.

Slowly by slowly, generation by generation, the tide is shifting, the axis is tilting and enough Americans see what the rest of the world has seen for decades. That Republican governments are driven by the same sentiments as the people that support them. Powerful images.

It never ceases to amaze me that (Republican) governments and Joe Sixpack apparently have no sense of dignity, no sense of pride when it comes to anything that happens outside the borders of their Great Nation. Facts and circumstances the other 95,5 percent of the people on this planet duly see and which make a mockery of anything they say they stand for. This video lifts part of the vale and shows some of the reasons why this is so.
Thanks M&M.

[harobamason]

Thanks Max & the Marginalized! Two centuries later and people still believe they have a right to this hate. If we were witnessing this behavior from another nation, we would cover our faces in horror! It's hard to hold up a mirror to these folk. I am not one of them.

[Sarashire]

Wow, very well done. Scary though. I hope there will be a way to call off the hounds....

[MathIsTruth]

Outstanding. Thank you!

Republicans know nothing about spreading a message unless it's a message of fear.

What I fear most, though, are Republicans.

[w&cheneysuck]

Thanks again, Max & the Marginalized! This has become a time in our nation's history at its worst. I have never seen such awful behavior in fellow human beings of the same country acting so badly. If we were witnessing this behavior from another nation, we would be sick! It's hard to hold up a mirror to these folks, they've broken the mirror!

[Ted K]

STRAY TALK EXPRESS!
John McCain likes to spell it " straight talk." But say it out loud: it"s " Stray Talk.
Here"s what it means. McCain says Barack Obama is friends with terrorists; that Obama is a Socialist; and that Obama is like George Bush. McCain says the economy is fundamentally sound, then says the economy is in crisis. And so on.
Joe Biden says McCain is "lurching."
But John McCain has it right. It"s STRAY TALK.