aTypical Joe: a gay New Yorker living in the rural South
Thursday, April 27, 2006
Neil Young’s “Impeach the President” lyrics
I was surprised to learn that Neil Young was a Reagan Republican. I was surprised again today, via Fox News:
Neil Young’s new album, “Living with War,” is an incendiary, moving, totally American document of peaceful protest that is going to make a lot of people crazy one way or another. [...]
Here, for the first time, the lyrics to Neil Young’s “Let’s Impeach the President”:
Let’s impeach the president for lying
And leading our country into war
Abusing all the power that we gave him
And shipping all our money out the door
He’s the man who hired all the criminals
The White House shadows who hide behind closed doors
And bend the facts to fit with their new stories
Of why we have to send our men to war
Let’s impeach the president for spying
On citizens inside their own homes
Breaking every law in the country
By tapping our computers and telephones
What if Al Qaeda blew up the levees
Would New Orleans have been safer that way
Sheltered by our government’s protection
Or was someone just not home that day?
Let’s impeach the president
For hijacking our religion and using it to get elected
Dividing our country into colors
And still leaving black people neglected
Thank god he’s racking down on steroids
Since he sold his old baseball team
There’s lot of people looking at big trouble
But of course the president is clean
Thank God
Here are tour dates (Atlanta, Aug 10). Brian Doherty, via The Opinionator, reminds us:
...that Abraham Lincoln was the last president brought down by a popular entertainer… So why do pop stars return again and again to the political, despite the risk of ridicule, misunderstanding, artistic failure, and ineffectuality? The answer may be found in that old joke about why dogs lick their balls: because they can. Alas, political pop is usually just as productive as the activity at the center of that joke.
A child of the 60s (I missed Woodstock but was a regular at the early Wigstock festivals) that’s not exactly the way I think of it.
