song 096 : Run Throught The Jungle (Nonpoetic Rain: Live on KXLU)
I returned to one of my favorite songwriters, John Fogerty, for this pessimistic though pre-9/11 prediction about the Bush presidency and the ascendancy of the American right wing.
I had seen riot grrrl, the Koo’s peace punk scene, and my band, evaporate right before my eyes. The stock market had crashed ending the go go Clinton good times. You could feel the bastards itching for war.
New inventions of war were ready to test. New strategies to keep America the vampire sucking the world’s resources to the bitter end were eager for implementation. New doctrines to fight the baby vampire nations we foster all across the globe awaited action.
With immigration laws pending that would institutionalize a slave population, the war against the middle class trumpeted on CNN daily, and the rich getting richer by gigantic gulps of wealth and power, to me this song sounds even timelier today than it did when I recorded it.
Listen to the song: Click Here
I had seen riot grrrl, the Koo’s peace punk scene, and my band, evaporate right before my eyes. The stock market had crashed ending the go go Clinton good times. You could feel the bastards itching for war.
New inventions of war were ready to test. New strategies to keep America the vampire sucking the world’s resources to the bitter end were eager for implementation. New doctrines to fight the baby vampire nations we foster all across the globe awaited action.
With immigration laws pending that would institutionalize a slave population, the war against the middle class trumpeted on CNN daily, and the rich getting richer by gigantic gulps of wealth and power, to me this song sounds even timelier today than it did when I recorded it.
Listen to the song: Click Here
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