Monday, September 29, 2008

Strong and Wrong



Strong and Wrong

Strong and wrong you win--
only because
that's the way it's always been.
Men love war!
That's what history's for.
History...
a mass-murder mystery...
his story.

Strong and wrong
you lose everything
without the heart
you need
to hear a robin sing.
Where have all the songbirds gone?
Gone!
All I hear are crows in flight
singing might is right,
might is right!!

Oh, the dawn of man comes slow,
thousands of years,
and here we are...
still worshiping
our own ego.

Strong and wrong,
what is God's will?
Onward Christian soldiers..
Or thou shall not kill..

Men love war!
Is that what God is for?
Just a rabbit's foot?
Just a lucky paw
for shock and awe?
Shock and awe!

Joni Mitchell 2007

1 comment:

Lane Savant said...

Listen, Joanie, sweety pie.
I seem to remember that the first thing that happened after you girls got the vote is that you fell in love with Adolph Hitler.
Wimmen are the most blood thirsty little animals.

You've got to ask yourself why men are driven to violence in the first place.

The hand that rocks the cradle has more to do with the tone of existence than you short lumpy types seem to be able to admit.