The Sad Thing About America

On the bus home this evening, I was listening to some songs on my iPod (bless that little thing!) and one of them just resonated amazingly with me. Rufus Wainwright's "Going To A Town". It really captures the sentiment of sadness I feel with regard to America. The core ideals of the US are so beautiful, pure and awe-inspiring, but I feel like those ideals are being consistently stripped away. And that's what makes me sad. It can be such a great nation. It's getting ruined by so many things. The Bush Administration, lawyers, pharmaceutical companies, the war in Iraq, rampant capitalism, ignorance, horgging resources, too many guns, and a docile citizen majority who just lay down and accept all this. And did you know there are people in New Orleans that are still homeless?

These are things we want to commit ourselves to changing, even if just a little.

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Going To A Town

I'm going to a town that has already been burned down
I'm going to a place that is already been disgraced
I'm gonna see some folks who have already been let down.
I'm so tired of America

I'm gonna make it up for all of the Sunday Times
I'm gonna make it up for all of the nursery rhymes
They never really seem to want to tell the truth
I'm so tired of you America

Making my own way home
Ain't gonna be alone
I got a life to lead, America
I got a life to lead

Tell me do you really think you go to hell for having loved?
Tell me and not for thinking every thing that you've done is good
(I really need to know)
After soaking the body of Jesus Christ in blood
I'm so tired of America
(I really need to know)

I may just never see you again or might as well
You took advantage of a world that loved you well

I'm going to a town that has already been burned down
I'm so tired of you, America
Making my own way home
Ain't gonna be alone
I got a life to lead, America

I got a life to lead
I got a soul to feed
I got a dream to heed
And that's all I need
Making my own way home
Ain't gonna be alone

I'm going to a town that has already been burned down