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Wide Awake [message #218010]

Fri, 08 September 2006 06:33

cheesesoda
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"Wide Awake" by Audioslave
Lyrics written by Cris Cornell (vocals)

You can look a hurricane right in the eye
Twelve hundred people dead or left to die
Follow the leaders
Were it an eye for an eye
We'd all be blind, deaf or murdered
This im sure
In this uncertain time

So come pull a sheet over my eyes
So I can sleep tonight
Despite what I've seen today
I find you guilty of the crime
Of sleeping in a time when you should have been wide awake

Down on the road the world is floating by
The poor and undefended left behind
While you're somewhere trading lives for oil
As if the whole world were blind

So come pull a sheet over my eyes
So I can sleep tonight
Despite what I've seen today
I've found you guilty of the crime
Of sleeping in a time
When you should have been wide awake

Come pull this sheet over my eyes
So I can sleep tonight
despite what ive seen

I found you guilty of the crime
Of sleeping in a time
when you should have been wide awake
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Obviously, this song is quite slanted to the left. The underlying issues talked about in this song are Hurricane Katrina and the war in Iraq.

I think this song shows an amazing amount of ignorance in blasting Bush for ignoring the victims of Hurricane Katrine and STILL claiming that the war in Iraq is about oil. Discuss.

whoa.

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Re: Wide Awake [message #218013 is a reply to message #218010]

Fri, 08 September 2006 06:43

PlastoJoe
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Colonel

It's Chris Cornell and 3/4 of Rage Against the Machine. Of course it's slanted to the left. At least it's not as anarchistic as Zack de la Rocha would've made it.

Not that that's a bad thing. Rage was a badass band.

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Re: Wide Awake [message #218037 is a reply to message #218010]

Fri, 08 September 2006 10:21

mrpirate
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You're going to make Tom Morello cry.

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Re: Wide Awake [message #218040 is a reply to message #218010]

Fri, 08 September 2006 10:31

cheesesoda
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Nah, he'll just write more angry liberal music as the Nightwatchman.

whoa.

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Re: Wide Awake [message #218042 is a reply to message #218010]

Fri, 08 September 2006 10:39

mrpirate
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Good burn, although I'm a bit confused by this whole thread.

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Re: Wide Awake [message #218043 is a reply to message #218042]

Fri, 08 September 2006 10:45

cheesesoda
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mrpirate wrote on Fri, 08 September 2006 13:39

Good burn, although I'm a bit confused by this whole thread.

I don't know. Maybe because I'm seeing good music being used as political fodder. Not that it's a necessarily a bad thing, but an informed opinion in the lyrics wouldn't be so bad.

Plus, it goes to show that people still think that Bush just chose to ignore the Katrina situation and that Iraq is for oil.

whoa.

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Re: Wide Awake [message #218044 is a reply to message #218010]

Fri, 08 September 2006 10:53

Hydra
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Colonel

There are some people who still think the moon landings were faked; that we shouldn't have nuked Nagasaki and Hiroshima; that the whole prospect of "God" is horse-hooey; that the thirteen colonies were wrong in breaking away from the British Empire.

There are some opinions that time-tested evidence will never change.

Walter Keith Koester: September 22, 1962 - March 15, 2005
God be with you, Uncle Wally.