Empire

[bvonahsen]

I was listening to <!--EZCODE LINK START--><a href="http://minnesota.publicradio.org/radio/services/the_current/">The current</a><!--EZCODE LINK END--> and head this by Dar Williams. Pretty interesting song.<br><br><!--EZCODE LINK START--><a href="http://www.google.com/musics?lid=_O894LGvbkN&aid=dYHIckrGrNK&sid=I9HESFZ46RK&sa=X&oi=music&ct=image">Dar Williams</a><!--EZCODE LINK END--><br><br><!--EZCODE QUOTE START--><blockquote><strong><em>Quote:</em></strong><hr><br>Empire<br><br>Who's afraid of the sun?<br>Who would question the goodness of the mighty?<br>We who banish the threat,<br>When your little ones all go nighty nighty?<br>Well there's no time for doubt right now,<br>And less time to explain.<br>So get back on your horses,<br>Kiss my ring,<br>And join our next campaign,<br><br>And the Empire grows<br>with the news that we're winning,<br>With more fear to conquer,<br>more gold thread for spinning,<br>Till it's bright as the sun,<br>Shining on everyone.<br><br>Some would say that we've forced our words,<br>And we find that ingenuously churlish.<br>Words are just words.<br>Don't be so pessimistic, weak and girlish.<br>We like strong, happy people<br>Who don't think<br>there's something wrong with pride,<br>Work makes them free,<br>And we spread that freedom far and wide,<br><br>And the Empire grows the seeds of its glory,<br>For every five tanks,<br>Plant a sentimental story,<br><br>Till they worship the sun,<br>Even Christ loving ones.<br>And we'll kill the terrorizers<br>and a million of their races,<br><br>But when our people torture you,<br>that's a few random cases.<br>Don't question the sun.<br>It doesn't help anyone.<br><br>But the journalists cried out,<br>When it was too late to stop us.<br>Everyone had awakened<br>To the dream they could enter our colossus.<br>And now I'm right, yeah, you said I'm right,<br>There's nothing that can harm me,<br>Cause the sun never sets on my dungeons or my army,<br><br>And the Empire fell on its own shattered axis,<br>And the Emperor wanes as the silver moon waxes,<br>And the farmers will find old coins<br>In their strawberry fields,<br>While somebody somewhere twists his ring<br>And someone kneels.<br>Oh, where is the sun Shining for everyone?<br>Where is the sun Shining for everyone?<hr></blockquote><!--EZCODE QUOTE END--> <p></p><i></i>