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When "Sweden's Bob Dylan" Called Out "The Chosen Ones" and Their Minions for the Ills and Evils of Society and the World and asked "Who Will They Burn Next?"

From 1982, which seems to have been a time of awakening as I also know of other songs by popular artists of the era which clearly pointed out frauds and criminality of the government and ruling oligarchy. Like another a song by another popular folk singer, Owe Thörnqvist, released the same year, “Sverigebesöket” (“The Sweden Visit”) which called out government officials and police for complicity in the narcotics trade and the called out minister of immigration for “letting in the gangsters other countries kick out.”

It seems that there was an awakening which was killed off by the ruling oligarchy by using mass immigration and its consequences to draw attention away from the big picture as well as to divide us. The burgeoning awakening then fizzelled out and the nationalists were reduced to obsessing about immigrants and Islam (as well as being fooled into supporting the illegitimate  and genocidal apartheid state of Israel) while the left was reduced to obsessing about racism and racists. Possibly Awareness, Truth, Unity and Liberation was around the corner but they played us like fiddles and we ruined it all for ourselves.

Lyrics:

Come heretics, come sinners
With weaknesses and faults
But still dares to stand for who you are
I confess myself to you tonight
I seek myself to you
I always want to dare to say what I see

I am a man with shortcomings
But I search for the Truth
And that’s more than one can say about the prevaricators
So as the bombs fall
Over Palestine’s children
In tent encampments in Southern Lebanon
Then I stand in the church
And ask the hypocrites
Who’s next to be burnt by the Chosen Ones

And tell me of the harlots
Who everyone denigrates
But who only charge for what they give
And what about the moralists
Who brag of their virtue
But themselves lay flat for rank and style
Should the tramp point her nose
Towards the ground in her shame
There are worse s***s than she knows
Yes, a refined socialite lady
Is a costly bed warmer
As she expects a carefree life of luxury
And when the embers have burned out
And the bazaars take hold
The provider must turn to the w***e for a kiss

Take a look at the journalists
At society’s scroungers
Who fritters away their powers
Yes, what do I get from the cowards
Who stain the columns
With village gossip and other trivialities
Whose only ambitions
Are a byline and a pay check
And a patronage among the finer people
While others break their backs hunting for truths
That scare the crap out of a terrified news desk
Yes. to the latter I will say
Before the silence takes hold
That we need people who understand their mission

Come look at old friends
Who has started giving way
To carping of the times of “unpoliticality”
Yes, perhaps it’s trendy now
With huggable words
With softies and “objectivity”
But how can a worn out miner
Strive for “quality of life”
How can a single mom “realize herself”
No, politics is no fad
No “cool and trendy thing”
For most it’s a necessity of life
And the the twits who can afford
To “bet on themselves”
Don’t give a crap about the rest of our humanity

Come you who occupy
Factories and offices
As they tear the very bread out of your hand
And come you who dare to chain yourselves
Along the railroads
To stop the use of toxic pesticides
Come you who demonstrate
For disarmament and peace
Come you who fight for day care rights
And come you who has the strenght to fight
For the next generation
In a time when one’s afraid to procreate
Yes, to you I want to say
This song is for you
Because you are the only heroes that we have

What do you think?

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CJ Flintstone
CJ Flintstone
5 months ago
Reply to  flipthepyramid

Wait, wut? I was with you until that last sentence. You’re fine with the terrorists now?

CJ Flintstone
CJ Flintstone
5 months ago
Reply to  flipthepyramid

Don’t you get tired of Kool Aid?

Yokel17
Yokel17
5 months ago
Reply to  flipthepyramid

The planes were cgi? Oh dear. It’s hard to argue intelligence, it’s impossible to argue stupid