(reprise for 9-11) DFU SONG: End of the Innocence (end of the Clinton legacy...he was responsible)

DFU SONGS ^ | 9-2006 | Lyrics, Doug from Upland

[doug from upland]

http://www.fortunecity.com/tinpan/sunra/105/musicbox.htm
MIDI - END OF THE INNOCENCE (Bruce Hornsby)

For several years they sang his song…he was a hero to their cause
In denial many lived…he placed himself up above the laws
He knew all of the right things to say…down through…hell and then back believers would go
In eight long years he's done to us…more damage than you know

For his neglect we would finally pay the price…the count's three thousand dead
We know just where to place the blame…it is on Bill Clinton's head
When the Cole was hit and brave men died…there is no doubt that he hadn't cried
He looked at his polls and sighed
Now this is the end…this is the end…of his legacy

At OKC he saw his chance…he needed to divide us all
He would create the vast right wing…and his mind-numbed fools would pick up the ball
So we'd fight among ourselves…and the…grand scheme had worked, he got his way
With our attention diverted he…would gut the CIA

For his neglect we would pay the price…the count's three thousand dead
We know just where to place the blame…it is on Bill Clinton's head
When the Cole was hit and brave men died…there is no doubt that he hadn't cried
He looked at his polls and sighed
Now this is the end…this is the end…of his legacy

We endured a psychopath…who saw himself as the Rockstar Prez
We had sent the warnings out…watch what this man does, not what he says

For neglect we paid the price…when those great buildings fell with many dead
And we know just where to place the blame…it's on Bill Clinton's head
When the Cole was hit and brave men died…there is no doubt that he hadn't cried
He looked at his polls and sighed
Now this is the end…this is the end…of his legacy

[rwa265]

The melody is so boring I just had to do a search to see who did this song, and found out it was done by Don Henley in 1989. Were the following lyrics a protest against President Bush 41 rescuing Kuwait from Saddam?

"O beautiful, for spacious skies
But now those skies are threatening
They're beating plowshares into swords
For this tired old man that we elected king
Armchair warriors often fail
And we've been poisoned by these fairy tales"

[doug from upland]

I didn't even remember the original words. You may have something there. It would be interesting to verify.

[dmz]

I think that lyric references ronald reagan, not bush the first.

[doug from upland]

Maybe Henley wrote it just before the Berlin Wall fell.

[dmz]

"tired old man that we elected king" just doesn't sound like something someone would have written in the first days of the new administration (backtracking from the album release of june 89).

I confess to having purchased the cd new (for my wife) when it came out, and I've always thought he was referring to reagan and his military buildup.

[Digger]

Doug, this is one of your better ones (they all are good)

[doug from upland]

This one actually got produced. :)

[doug from upland]

Even with edits in THE PATH TO 911, Clinton looks as bad as we have always known. Same with Albright.

[doug from upland]

Bringing this one back. Yes, he was the Rockstar Prez. Hero to the mind-numbed robots he has fooled. And yet, he is now viewed as an elder statesman, rather than a serial sexual predator and the man who did incalculable damage to this nation.