Wednesday, September 07, 2005
Green Day's Ode to New Orleans
Just got Green Day's American Idiot from the library, and was struck by how appropriate the lyrics of "Tales of Another Broken Home" were to the events of New Orleans and to those displaced by the storm. (Forgive the blue language below: after all, it's punk).
To live and not to breathe
Is to die in tragedy
To run, to run away to find what to believe
And I leave behind this hurricane of fucking lies
I lost my faith to this, this town that don't exist
So I run, I run away
To the light of masochists
And I leave behind this hurricane of fucking lies
And I walked this line a million and one fucking times
But not this time
I don't feel any shame, I won't apologize
When there ain't nowehere you can go
Running away from pain when you've been victimized
Tales from another broken home
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