Deadsplinter Up! All Night: This here’s the land of the sniper. Not the home of the brave

2/6/20 Jonee 17

Love, That’s America – Melvin Van Peebles

Excuse me buddy, but-
Excuse me lady, but-
You foolin, ain’tcha?
Where can I be?
This ain’t America, is it?
Oh Lord, where can I be?
This ain’t America, is it?
Nah, this ain’t America
You can’t fool me
This here’s the home of the sheriff
Not the land of the free
In America, folks don’t run through the streets
Blood streamin’ from where they’ve been beaten
In the park for the people
And the cop in the good ol’ U.S.A
Don’t think they some kinda gods either


Nah, this ain’t America
You can’t fool me

If you don’t spit the right image
They just pull out their DDT
If they just don’t like the way you look
They just law and order and trick
Just trip and name and frame and blame
Just legislate and club away
And just laugh louder and louder
Nah, this ain’t America
You can’t fool me
Nah, this ain’t America
You can’t fool me
Love (love, that’s America)
Open arms for every creature
Love (love, that’s America)
Open arms for every man
Love (love, that’s America)
Joy and peace and harmony
Love (love, that’s America)
Children with laughing eyes
Love (love, that’s America)
Yes Lord, that’s America
Love (love, that’s America)
The old eagle soarin’
Love (love, that’s America)
The old eagle wearin’ a grin
Love (love, that’s America)
The old eagle soarin’
Nah, this ain’t America
Nah, you can’t fool me

(God bless America)
Oh, this here’s the land of the sniper
Not the home of the brave
Oh say can’t you smell that you too smug to see?
Greed done pulled the plug
Your democracy is defrostin’
Somethings going rotten
Smells like justice and liberty
Nah, this ain’t America
You can’t fool me
(You can’t fool me)
Excuse me, but seriously
Which way to the good ol’ U.S.A.?
This ain’t nothing like the place I wanna be
Not as far as I can see
I don’t care what you say
Hey, why you pointing that this way?
This sure ain’t America, is it?
Nah, this ain’t America
You can’t fool me
Nah, this ain’t America
You can’t fool me

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17 Comments

  2. Tom Robinson turned 70 yesterday. 42 years ago he released one of my favorite albums “Power In The Darkness”. Here is “Long Hot Summer” which seems to be the case this year.

    Bonus: Power In The Darkness

  3. BBB – War Again

    Here we are like we’re going to get war again
    Coming hard, come and get a gun, join the gang
    With the bang bang and the same song we sang
    Coming over and over again

    It’s peaking up now, getting more like a game
    And it feels real like we learn to fake the fame
    And there’s never more then one truth
    But u can always tell your better half

    Always tell your better half of the story
    It goes well with the better side of your face u show on TV
    Give me a good reason why I shouldn’t start a revolution
    What’s in the constitution? Is this illusion that we buy?
    U cut the wings and then u say fly
    U say the hero is the one that died
    But the true hero is the one who doesn’t live a lie and understands
    That there’s an end out of the cycle
    Who’s the master? Who’s the disciple?
    U can do what u can, but will u do it again?
    So what’s the plan?
    Looks like we are going to get war again

  6. …listening to the orange man in the white house sometimes I wonder what planet he thinks he’s living on, even…because it doesn’t seem to be the same one I recognize…

    …& then I think…space force…fucking zap brannigan would be an improvement over this gaping maw of entrenched ignorance

    …it’s looking like another hard day’s night, though

    …a bit of justice dawning wouldn’t go amiss

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