Thursday, March 30, 2006

BUSHWHACKED

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Tom Chelston is a DWT reader living just north of Houston. Although he's been a session player in L.A., NYC and Nashville, in the 80s Tom did six years as an Infantry Medic (corpsman, one of the most dangerous jobs in the military) with the 1st and 3rd Marines. Like many of us, he was gung-ho to "get the bad guys" after 9-11. "It turns out," he told me, "that most of them are in the White House/current administration... I can barely watch the T.V. without wanting to put my chair through it." I was struck by the honesty and intensity of one of Tom's songs, "Bushwhacked" and I asked him if I could share it with everyone else who reads DWT. It says an awful lot for any American concerned about what our government is doing (in our name).


BushWhacked

I served my time far away from the front lines
But I’ve seen them come and I’ve seen them go
Bullets fly when politicians lie and soldiers die that’s war
Their fathers and mothers wake up crying in the middle of the night
Their hearts jump at every knock upon the door
Young Americans bleeding and dying in the middle of this fight
Still trying to figure out what the hell they’re really dying for
Bushwhacked and another soldier dies
They’ve been Bushwhacked
By a whitehouse war built on whitehouse lies
Bushwhacked
And by the time we realize we’ve all been Bushwhacked
Another roadside bomb another soldier dies

If you close your eyes force yourself to look inside
Read between the whitehouse lies that we’ve all been fed
In the name of humanity they peddled our democracy
Claim they’re trying to set Iraqis free
So far we’ve freed a hundred thousand dead
And their fathers and mothers wake up crying in the middle of the night
Their hearts jump with every knock upon the door
Soldiers and civilians bleeding and dying in the middle of this fight
Still trying to figure out what they’re really dying for

They’ve been Bushwhacked and another soldier dies
They’ve been Bushwhacked
By a whitehouse war built on whitehouse lies
Bushwhacked
And by the time we realize we’ve all been Bushwhacked
Another roadside bomb another soldier dies

Bushwhacked and another soldier dies
They’ve been Bushwhacked
By a whitehouse war built on whitehouse lies
Bushwhacked
And we’re gonna lose a thousand more
Yeah we’ve been Bushwhacked
Maybe George should fight his own bullshit war

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