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Long past That Time to dispell Chronocolonization Of a complication That Rose up in My generation I'm not toten This Frickin weight No more Gonna knock it.., DOWN STOMP IT Into the ground And then... When I am finished Sweep it out The door It was a ...... MADgical time As ...we...re re.. Realized That life Could be ... ....a .... Box of ******* jacks If WE WERE Willing To forget the prize Seeking out lives WITHOUT all those comp Complications WE WERE ... the .... drop out and TUNE in generation Me and that dial Spun with .... FREQUENCY I just never found the station But I more than Earned What I learned So ...as far as I am - and ever will be CONCERNED It would be A far far Different WORLD....now Were the tables Not turned I can I can look back Past time-worn decades shuffle those torn ,tatteered and ... dog-eared cards play that hand before it fades Smiling as it goes by In ... Psychedelic parade MAYBE .... maybe that dream that seemed ...to be WAS...just passion of youth and pure fantasy As just the hope .. and honesty of Totally effected me So no I will not... smash and sweep There is good and bad In all memories We KEEP SO.... someday...I may Take a faithful That faithful leap As I try To find A means Amends to convey That ... WE WERE NOT rebelling against you Our parents ...in any way! The fact is WE heard you speaking to each other or friends In hushed tones When WE WERE Toddlers to TEENS About how YOU THE GREATEST GENERATION came home to be Pushed and torn between Your dignity and The new AMERICAN reality As the rise Up Of the...Military Industrial machine You did not Know What you were Part of.... THEN COGS in the disease That new cognitive insolence Of RICH and greed driven men We've gone a long way To be still mired In that same ... ...nightmare WE may have had Some Instinctual vision Of the pressure Induced That must ...have Left you confused as you were forced to make us leave And in silence you Had to grieve And though time Did mellow all pain As we sought out a reprieve And now though it must be said WE must have felt the words As well as Heard your pain To go from the greatest The greatest generation To become The next wars slaves Confused Not sure what to do So WE WERE Your voice ,your rebellion We were inspired To stand up the way you wanted to YOU gave us life .... WE gave you voice !!
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Apr 30, 2017
Apr 30, 2017 at 12:19 PM UTC
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Long past That Time to dispell Chronocolonization Of a complication That Rose up in My generation I'm not toten This Frickin weight No more Gonna knock it.., DOWN STOMP IT Into the ground And then... When I am finished Sweep it out The door It was a ...... MADgical time As ...we...re re.. Realized That life Could be ... ....a .... Box of ******* jacks If WE WERE Willing To forget the prize Seeking out lives WITHOUT all those comp Complications WE WERE ... the .... drop out and TUNE in generation Me and that dial Spun with .... FREQUENCY I just never found the station But I more than Earned What I learned So ...as far as I am - and ever will be CONCERNED It would be A far far Different WORLD....now Were the tables Not turned I can I can look back Past time-worn decades shuffle those torn ,tatteered and ... dog-eared cards play that hand before it fades Smiling as it goes by In ... Psychedelic parade MAYBE .... maybe that dream that seemed ...to be WAS...just passion of youth and pure fantasy As just the hope .. and honesty of Totally effected me So no I will not... smash and sweep There is good and bad In all memories We KEEP SO.... someday...I may Take a faithful That faithful leap As I try To find A means Amends to convey That ... WE WERE NOT rebelling against you Our parents ...in any way! The fact is WE heard you speaking to each other or friends In hushed tones When WE WERE Toddlers to TEENS About how YOU THE GREATEST GENERATION came home to be Pushed and torn between Your dignity and The new AMERICAN reality As the rise Up Of the...Military Industrial machine You did not Know What you were Part of.... THEN COGS in the disease That new cognitive insolence Of RICH and greed driven men We've gone a long way To be still mired In that same ... ...nightmare WE may have had Some Instinctual vision Of the pressure Induced That must ...have Left you confused as you were forced to make us leave And in silence you Had to grieve And though time Did mellow all pain As we sought out a reprieve And now though it must be said WE must have felt the words As well as Heard your pain To go from the greatest The greatest generation To become The next wars slaves Confused Not sure what to do So WE WERE Your voice ,your rebellion We were inspired To stand up the way you wanted to YOU gave us life .... WE gave you voice !!
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Apr 30, 2017
Apr 30, 2017 at 12:19 PM UTC
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