[LRS]

Thanks, but you forgot to say "I guess you all know who I am; my name's Johnny Cash" ;)

The Kinks are the GREATEST, and R.D. Davies is the GREAT song writer of our time.

And just for the heck of it, Ray was being compared to Hitler by liberal idiots LONG before President Bush, simply because he would speak his mind, like in the songs you posted. One particular incident I recall was the reviewer (I think it may have been in Rolling Stone) who said something along the line of "if Hitler had been a member of a rock band, he would have been with the Kinks", because of Ray's "Black Messiah" track on Misfits.

While not a particularly great song, I think the lyrics should be included at this point:

Black Messiah

by R.D. Davies

Everybody got the right to speak their mind
So don't shoot me for saying mine

Everybody talking about racial equality
'Cos everybody's equal in the good Lord's eyes
But if I told you that God was black
What would you think of that
I bet you wouldn't believe it

There's a self made prophet living right next to me
He said the Black Messiah's gonna come and set the whole world free
He looked at me with his evil eye and prophesied
And he really believed it

He said a Black Messiah is gonna set the world on fire
And he's no liar, 'cos he has truly heard the word

Everybody talking about racial equality
But I'm the only honky living on an all black street
They knock me down 'cos they brown and I white

Everybody got the right to speak their mind
So don't shoot me for saying mine

Everyobody talking about racial equality
You hear everybody talking about equal rights
But white's white, black's black and that's that
And that's the way you should leave it

Don't want no Black Messiah to come and set the world on fire
A Black Messiah is gonna come and rule the world

Everybody got to show a little give and take
Everybody got to live with a little less hate
Everybody gotta work it out, we gotta sort it out

Everbody got the right to speak their mind
So don't shoot me for saying mine

[Aquinasfan]

Can't resist another:

God's Children

Man made the buildings that reach for the sky
And man made the motorcar and learned how to fly
But he didn't make the flowers and he didn't make the trees
And he didn't make you and he didn't make me
And he's got no right to turn us into machines
He's got no right at all
'Cause we are all God's children
And he's got no right to change us
Oh, we gotta go back the way the good Lord made us all

Don't want this world to change me
I wanna go back the way the good Lord made me
Same lungs that he gave me to breath with
Same eyes he gave me to see with

Oh, the rich man, the poor man, the saint and the sinner
The wise man, the simpleton, the loser and the winner
We are all the same to Him
Stripped of our clothes and all the things we own
The day that we are born
We are all God's children
And they got no right to change us
Oh, we gotta go back the way the good Lord made us
Oh, the good Lord made us all
And we are all his children
And they got no right to change us
Oh, we gotta go back the way the good Lord made us all
Yeah, we gotta go back the way the good lord made us all