“The extravagant expenditure of public money is an evil not to be measured by the value of that money to the people who are taxed for it.” – Chester A. Arthur
The thing is that as far back as we go in US history, we find the Democrats wading thigh deep in corruption and excessive taxation and the Republicans involved in attempting to reduce these burdens from the people of our great nation. From the Trails of Tears and Dread, to the formation of the Confederated States of America to keep slavery, to Jim Crow, to the overall failure to support easing the tax burden, we find the hand of the Democratic party heavy on weighing down on the people of our great nation. This is true, however much they protest to the contrary.
“When I can look life in the eyes, grown calm and very coldly wise, life will have given me the truth, and taken in exchange – my youth.” – Sara Teasdale
“Whoever controls the volume of money in our country is absolute master of all industry and commerce…when you realize that the entire system is very easily controlled, one way or another, by a few powerful men at the top, you will not have to be told how periods of inflation and depression originate.” – James A. Garfield
“Science is best defined as a careful, disciplined, logical search for knowledge about any and all aspects of the universe, obtained by examination of the best available evidence and always subject to correction and improvement upon discovery of better evidence. What’s left is magic. And it doesn’t work.” -James Randi
You started real And sold out for a mansion. It's the corporate feel, Soulless suits were never in fashion.
Life is raw, And only sometimes pretty. Singing about what you saw In every man's town and city.
This world can be strongly frayed. You hear it in every note played. Until some arranger takes the sting To make more dollars just to sing.
I won't be tearing down legacy When I tell the tale of what it's meant to me. Selling out for no other need Then, to fill the treasury of corporate greed.
Road dogs are down for one more tour, Never ones to mind the detours. Building an empire, brick by brick, Just like family, it was that thick
This world can be strongly frayed. You hear it in every note played. Until some arranger takes the sting To make more dollars just to sing.
There for every single mile, Footnotes lost within a smile. Brotherhood has become a ragged rivalry, And broken dreams hold little sympathy.
Downtown trains on a rail going nowhere Have the feel of a downtrodden stare. There is no theft in the serendipity Of a loss bleeding into cold sympathy.
This world can be strongly frayed. You hear it in every note played. Until some arranger takes the sting To make more dollars just to sing.
MTV styles were poison to the soul. Flash and bang revive the rock-n-roll. Concepts breed into a bleak distraction There's no truth needed in fast-food satisfaction.
Life is lived best when lived out of step. The future is what the past has left. Though there is a lot to forget, Let's live rock-n-roll without regret.
This world's strings are strongly frayed. You hear it in every note that's played. That is until some arranger takes the sting, And removes the soul from the songs we sing.
(c) August 5, 2025 Michael Doyle All Rights Reserved
Heading out of Australia to escape this Aussie winter. First stop Japan, then UK/Ireland and if work doesn't call me back, onto Chicago. I will make it up as I go along
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