I've always liked this song. It's not a very good song, actually, but it has thought provoking lyrics. Lyrics which, as I am never happy with just stating things, I elaborate on. Confuzing? Well, here's the song with why I say in ().
Artist:Jewel
Album:This Way
Title:The New Wild West
You see the ghosts of the buffalo (AHH!)
Moving both fierce and slow
Like glittering prophesies
On the edge of the horizon (Pretty)
As you drive glittering highways (Pff, glittering?)
And beaten-up by-ways
That straddle and girdle
A great and many-faced nation (Great? I suppose...)
There are lambs in the ghettos (Picture a sheep with baggy pants and serious bling)
Who worship their gapettos
Believing in, though never seeing
The strings they think bind them
So you write to our congressmen
With bleeding pens
Of the sorrow within
And in return they just send
Tickets to the latest tom hanks show (Yup, that pretty much sums up what are government is now a days)
Chorus:
Welcome to the new wild west (Yeeha!)
Each man for himself
A nation of civilized steeples (I wouldn't say civilized)
And lonely people
Welcome to the new wild west (yeeha?)
There are so many fractions (math...grrr)
And cue-card reactions (Like what they do on Dr. Phil! Cue Card: Laugh *laughs)
It's hard to keep clear
The possibilities here'cause there's no force to unite them (We must learn to use the Force. Clear your mind and control your emotions)
Privilege has ruled for thousands of years (Ya, unfortunetly. Fuck it)
Wars have been fought with bibles and tears (Is she talking about the Crusades? That was pretty much Bilbes versus tears, in my opinion)
Yet liberation can't deny the temptation
And soon becomes the oppressor (Hmm, sounds familiar...)
Show me a leader who's fit to lead
Who don't sew his seed in anything
Wounded enough to breed
Because after all what fun is power
If you can't act like a rock star? (No fun! No fun at all!)
Chorus
See me, i've been cruel (Poor spider. It didn't deserve to die...*tear*)
I've been petty and unkind
But i know my own mind (You perhaps. Not me)
And since it seems clear
There's no one leading us here (Who is she talking about? Lets think REAL HARD. I know, it's hard work)
The only thing left it appears
Is to task ourselves to be better each time
Then those before us (Well, I agreed with you up to this point.)
We'll be an army of theives
Of self-freed slaves
Of mild-mannered maids
We'll fight with whispers and blades
So get ready, a new day is dawning (CLASS OF '09, BABY!! W00T!)
Chorus
Well, ya. There it is. If you want to actually hear the song, look it up at radioblogclub.com. It's not real good. I just like the lyrics. If those lyrics appeal to you, she has some other thought provoking songs. Coldplay, Train, and Green Day have some as well.
Artist:Jewel
Album:This Way
Title:The New Wild West
You see the ghosts of the buffalo (AHH!)
Moving both fierce and slow
Like glittering prophesies
On the edge of the horizon (Pretty)
As you drive glittering highways (Pff, glittering?)
And beaten-up by-ways
That straddle and girdle
A great and many-faced nation (Great? I suppose...)
There are lambs in the ghettos (Picture a sheep with baggy pants and serious bling)
Who worship their gapettos
Believing in, though never seeing
The strings they think bind them
So you write to our congressmen
With bleeding pens
Of the sorrow within
And in return they just send
Tickets to the latest tom hanks show (Yup, that pretty much sums up what are government is now a days)
Chorus:
Welcome to the new wild west (Yeeha!)
Each man for himself
A nation of civilized steeples (I wouldn't say civilized)
And lonely people
Welcome to the new wild west (yeeha?)
There are so many fractions (math...grrr)
And cue-card reactions (Like what they do on Dr. Phil! Cue Card: Laugh *laughs)
It's hard to keep clear
The possibilities here'cause there's no force to unite them (We must learn to use the Force. Clear your mind and control your emotions)
Privilege has ruled for thousands of years (Ya, unfortunetly. Fuck it)
Wars have been fought with bibles and tears (Is she talking about the Crusades? That was pretty much Bilbes versus tears, in my opinion)
Yet liberation can't deny the temptation
And soon becomes the oppressor (Hmm, sounds familiar...)
Show me a leader who's fit to lead
Who don't sew his seed in anything
Wounded enough to breed
Because after all what fun is power
If you can't act like a rock star? (No fun! No fun at all!)
Chorus
See me, i've been cruel (Poor spider. It didn't deserve to die...*tear*)
I've been petty and unkind
But i know my own mind (You perhaps. Not me)
And since it seems clear
There's no one leading us here (Who is she talking about? Lets think REAL HARD. I know, it's hard work)
The only thing left it appears
Is to task ourselves to be better each time
Then those before us (Well, I agreed with you up to this point.)
We'll be an army of theives
Of self-freed slaves
Of mild-mannered maids
We'll fight with whispers and blades
So get ready, a new day is dawning (CLASS OF '09, BABY!! W00T!)
Chorus
Well, ya. There it is. If you want to actually hear the song, look it up at radioblogclub.com. It's not real good. I just like the lyrics. If those lyrics appeal to you, she has some other thought provoking songs. Coldplay, Train, and Green Day have some as well.
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