Posted on 07/24/2006 9:25:43 AM PDT by Brian Allen
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This was writen quite some time ago.
Well as he once sung after a reformation, You are going to have to serve somebody. It may be the devil or it may be the Lord, but......... Israel is doing the Lord's work! Now if only the lefties , Dems, and MSM would stop carping and being appeasers, the USA could do the Lord's work too without the constant sniping and opposition.
The neighborhood bully just lives to survive,
He's criticized and condemned for being alive.
He's not supposed to fight back, he's supposed to have thick skin,
He's supposed to lay down and die when his door is kicked in.
He's the neighborhood bully.
The neighborhood bully been driven out of every land,
He's wandered the earth an exiled man.
Seen his family scattered, his people hounded and torn,
He's always on trial for just being born.
He's the neighborhood bully.
Well, he knocked out a lynch mob, he was criticized,
Old women condemned him, said he should apologize.
Then he destroyed a bomb factory, nobody was glad.
The bombs were meant for him.
He was supposed to feel bad.
He's the neighborhood bully.
Well, the chances are against it and the odds are slim
That he'll live by the rules that the world makes for him,
'Cause there's a noose at his neck and a gun at his back
And a license to kill him is given out to every maniac.
He's the neighborhood bully.
He got no allies to really speak of.
What he gets he must pay for, he don't get it out of love.
He buys obsolete weapons and he won't be denied
But no one sends flesh and blood to fight by his side.
He's the neighborhood bully.
Well, he's surrounded by pacifists who all want peace,
They pray for it nightly that the bloodshed must cease.
Now, they wouldn't hurt a fly.
To hurt one they would weep.
They lay and they wait for this bully to fall asleep.
He's the neighborhood bully.
Every empire that's enslaved him is gone,
Egypt and Rome, even the great Babylon.
He's made a garden of paradise in the desert sand,
In bed with nobody, under no one's command.
He's the neighborhood bully.
Now his holiest books have been trampled upon,
No contract he signed was worth what it was written on.
He took the crumbs of the world and he turned it into wealth,
Took sickness and disease and he turned it into health.
He's the neighborhood bully.
What's anybody indebted to him for?
Nothin', they say.
He just likes to cause war.
Pride and prejudice and superstition indeed,
They wait for this bully like a dog waits to feed.
He's the neighborhood bully.
What has he done to wear so many scars?
Does he change the course of rivers?
Does he pollute the moon and stars?
Neighborhood bully, standing on the hill,
Running out the clock, time standing still,
Neighborhood bully.
<< This was writen quite some time ago. >>
You mean just like the Torah and the Holy Bible? (eg)
No less true today.
Is there a problem with that?
Yes, it was written during the Israel-Lebanon conflict of 1983, but it hasn't lost any of its validity today. Thanks to the OP for once again bringing it to our attention! Great song.
http://bobdylan.com/songs/bully.html
This has to be updated to - Destroyed Hizbullah's missile and rockets, nobody was glad
Hahaha, no not that long ago but sometime after Bob came down from the mountain top siging:
But you're gonna have to serve somebody, yes indeed
You're gonna have to serve somebody,
Well, it may be the devil or it may be the Lord
But you're gonna have to serve somebody.
Thank you.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=doNU1EndU8I
Bob Dylan - "Its Alright Ma {Im Only Bleeding)"
Remembering the past? Not with me. I remember a great deal of Bob's past.
<< This has to be updated to - Destroyed Hizbullah's missile and rockets, nobody was glad >>
Make that "nobody:" -- "one man was ecstatic!" (me) -- Shalom! Shalom!
Remembering the past? Not with me. I remember a great deal of Bob's past.
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You probably remember more of Bob's past than he does.
I've met a few rainy day women in my time so I wouldn't count on that.
One of the few political songs Dylan wrote after 1963.
Dylan has always been his own man...I think he once said that he hated the hippies for claiming his music as speaking for them.
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