I'm kind of embarrassed to admit this, but I have to say it.

I was running some errands this morning, listening to John Mellencamp on the car stereo. All of a sudden, during "The Authority Song," I felt myself get teary-eyed. For no apparent reason, I started flashing on the current pResident and all the grievous harm he has caused this country and others, his corruption, greed, arrogance, and smugness, the helplessness I feel with the criminals currently in power, seemingly getting away with absolutely every dirty trick they pull, and how hard folks worked in 2004 to get Democrats elected, and how Al Gore or John Kerry should be sitting in the Oval Office right now, and I just kind of lost it.

:(

:hug:

I often feel the very same way.......:hug:


Sometimes my losing it takes the form of extreme anger, too...:nuke:

I can't remember what song it was right after the election - I think it was a Jim Croce song.... I can't think of which one (not a greatest hit) but the lyrics were just so haunting of the current situation and I started bawling while I was driving home.

:hug:

I googled - it was actually "Which way are you going?"

here is a link to the lyrics:
http://www.sing365.com/music/lyric.nsf/Which-Way-Are-You-Goin'-lyrics-Jim-Croce/BFE9237F5C5F272F48256E9A002D8475

If you've never heard it - it is a very beautiful song.

snip:

Which way are you goin'?
Which side will you be on?
Will you stand and watch while,
All the seeds of hate are sewn?
Will you stand with those who say
Let his will be done?

chorus
One hand on the Bible
And one hand on the gun.
One hand on the Bible
And one hand on the gun.

(I was sobbing...)

:pals: :hug:

I keep my John Kerry button on my viser in my car to remind me that this too shall eventually pass-hopefully without anymore damage then what has already been done.

some of the lyrics to that song are, "I fight authority/authority always wins/I've been doing it since I was a young kid/and I always come out grinning." Or something like that. Fight the good fight and don't let them bastards get you down.

On edit: That's my favorite Mellancamp tune.

as that it was John Mellencamp, and what he represents in my heart and mind.

Why are you embarrassed? You're not exactly alone in feeling this way. :hug:

I kind of lost it today, too. Not listening to a song, but just a lot of things indirectly attributed to this midAdministration kind of came to a head today and screwed me over massively.

I put my thoughts down into words, which helped a little. But I know how it feels.

It's genuine, what you're feeling, and hearing you say it here helps those of who feel exactly the same way...let's us know we're not all alone out here in the craziness. :)

I hope tomorrow is a better one for you. :hug:

:hug:

I do the same type of thing for the same reason. I always did cry at "Blowing in the Wind", and even more now a days, and though I know Garth Brooks is not exactly popular here because he's country and now a Walmart shill on top of it, I do have to give him that he wrote two songs that really move me, at least,especially now.

One is "We Shall Be Free"

These are some of my favorite lines:

"When the last child cries for a crust of bread, when the last man dies for just words that he said."

"When the skies and the oceans are clean again."

"When we all can worship from our kind of pews, when this world is big enough for all different views."

"And when money talks for the very last time, and nobody walks a step behind, when there is only race and that's mankind, "We Shall Be Free." I sob my heart out on that one, I admit.

The other one is the one he wrote after the Oklahoma city bombing. Called "Changes"

Some of the words:

"And they keep on saying you'll never change things, and no matter what you do, it's still the same thing, but it's not the world that I am changing, I do this so, this world we know, never changes me."

I guess that is why I became a democrat and still need to believe that we can win back our country from that jerk in the white house and all his assorted thug friends. Because I need to know that they can never change me into a heartless, souless, lying, cheating, chicken hawk coward, like the lot of them.

So don't feel ashamed at all. I am sad too. John Kerry should be our president, and you should feel proud, that you care so deeply. So :hug: and loads of love and respect from me.

Because I've felt the same way, and sometimes I need to laugh at dumb jokes before I cry-- a friend sent this today. I'm sure I've seen it around here before:

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has issued a warning about
a
new virulent strain of Sexually Transmitted Disease.

The disease is contracted through dangerous and high-risk behavior. The
disease is called Gonorrhea Lectim and pronounced "gonna re-elect him."

Many victims contracted it in 2004, after having been screwed for the past
four years. Cognitive characteristics of individuals infected include:
anti-social personality disorders, delusions of grandeur with messianic
overtones, extreme cognitive dissonance,
inability to incorporate new information, pronounced xenophobia and
paranoia, inability to accept responsibility for own actions, cowardice
masked by misplaced bravado, uncontrolled facial smirking, ignorance of
geography and history, tendencies towards evangelical theocracy,and
categorical all-or-nothing behavior.

Naturalists and epidemiologists are amazed at how this
destructive disease originated only a few years ago from a bush found in
Texas.

The weird thing is-- it's only a stupid joke, but other than the "STD" references there is a certain truth to it.....

at all. It seems amazingly fitting. :headbang:

I wonder how quickly they can come up the anti virus? :evilgrin:

There is an antivirus, and it works every time. It's called "term limits." :evilgrin:

You know what song gets me every time? "My Hometown" by Bruce Springsteen.

*sigh*

:patriot: to know the cure is there for the asking.

"My Hometown" is a great song.

I've done the same thing myself, usually when the fight gets to me, and I feel tired and worn out from it all. :hug:

especially when I hear reports out of Iraq...or how many don't have health care insurance...or when I hear talk of abortions being banned...or how many are losing their jobs to outsourcing...I often have a good cry about these things.

I don't think it's anything to be embarrassed about...just that you're a compassionate person. :hug:

(unlike those occupying 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue):grr: