Right and Wrong
- Joe Jackson, 1986
Stop everything
I think I hear the President
The pied piper of the TV screen
Is gonna make it simple.
He’s got it all mapped out
And illustrated with cartoons.
Too hard for clever folks to understand.
Yeah, they’re more used to words like:
ideology...
But they say it’s not the issue
ideology...
They’re not talking ‘bout right or left
They’re talkin’ ‘bout, t-t-t-alkin’ ‘bout,
Right and wrong - do you know the difference?
Right and wrong - do you know the difference
‘Tween the right and the left, and the east and the west
What you know and the things that you’ll never see?
So what ya think?
You like the Yankees or the Mets this year?
And what about this latest war of words?
What about the Commies?
You know I saw the news last night
All illustrated with cartoons.
So when they come with that opinion poll,
They’d better not chose words like:
ideology...
Try to tell me ‘bout the issues
ideology...
Who’s side are you on?
‘Cause we’re talkin’ ‘bout, t-t-t-alkin’ ‘bout,
Right and wrong - do you know the difference?
Right and wrong - do you know the difference
‘Tween the right and the left, and the east and the west
What you know and the things that you’ll never see?
Right and wrong - do you know the difference?
Right and wrong - do you know the difference
‘Tween the right and the left, and the east and the west
What you know and the things that you’ll never see?
I was up in the front rows when JJ came to the Kongresshaus in Zurich, Switzerland during his Blaze of Glory Tour on Tue, 17 Oct 1989.
http://www.jj-archive.net/concerts/bgt.html
It was a great intimate setting, great musicians, and Joe even inited to come down and dance in front of the stage on some of his older songs.
The setting was so intimate that in between songs you could hear the band members speaking to one another.
Great show!