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by Open-Publishing - Wednesday 14 May 2008
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May 4, 1970: Ohio Massacre

"The Kent State shootings, also known as the May 4 massacre or Kent State massacre, occurred at Kent State University in the city of Kent, Ohio, and involved the shooting of students by members of the Ohio National GuardMay 4, 1970.

Four students were killed and nine others wounded, one of whom suffered permanent paralysis." (from Wikipedia)

http://internationalnews.over-blog.com/article-19556499.html

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  • NEIL YOUNG LYRICS

    "Let’s Impeach The President"

    Let’s impeach the President for lying
    And misleading our country into war
    Abusing all the power that we gave him
    And shipping all our money out the door

    Who’s the man who hired all the criminals
    The White House shadows who hide behind closed doors
    They 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?

    Flip - Flop
    Flip - Flop
    Flip - Flop
    Flip - Flop

    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 cracking down on steroids
    Since he sold his old baseball team
    There’s lots of people looking at big trouble
    But of course our president is clean.

    Thank God

  • NEIL YOUNG
    Living With War
    This album was released in 2006.

    AFTER THE GARDEN
    Won’t need no shadow man
    Runnin’ the government
    Won’t need no stinkin’ WAR
    Won’t need no haircut
    Won’t need no shoe shine

    After the garden is gone
    After the garden is gone
    After the garden is gone

    What will people do?
    After the garden is gone
    What will people say?
    After the garden

    .....

    Won’t need no strong man
    Walkin’ through the night
    To live a weak man’s day
    Wont need no sunshine
    Won’t need no purple haze

    After the garden is gone
    After the garden is gone
    After the garden is gone

    Where will people go?

    After the garden is gone
    What will people know?

    After the garden

    .....

    After the garden is gone
    After the garden is gone

    [we live in the garden of eden, yeah
    don’t know why we wanna tear the whole thing to the ground
    we live in the garden of eden, yeah
    don’t know why we wanna tear the whole thing down

    And we’ve got to get ourselves
    Back to the garden]


    LIVING WITH WAR
    I’m living with war everyday
    I’m living with war in my heart everyday
    I’m living with war right now

    And when the dawn breaks I see my fellow man
    And on the flat-screen we kill and we’re killed again
    And when the night falls, I pray for peace
    Try to remember peace (visualize)

    I join the multitudes
    I raise my hand in peace
    I never bow to the laws of the thought police
    I take a holy vow
    To never kill again
    To never kill again

    I’m living with war in my heart
    I’m living with war in my heart and my mind
    I’m living with war right now

    Don’t take no tidal wave
    Don’t take no mass grave
    Don’t take no smokin’ gun
    To show how the west was won
    But when the curtain falls, I pray for peace
    Try to remember peace (visualize)

    In the crowded streets
    In the big hotels
    In the mosques and the doors of the old museum
    I take a holy vow
    To never kill again
    Try to remember peace

    The rocket’s red glare
    Bombs bursting in air
    Give proof through the night,
    That Our flag is still there

    I’m living with war everyday
    I’m living with war in my heart everyday
    I’m living with war right now.


    THE RESTLESS CONSUMER
    The people have heard the news
    The people have spoken
    You may not like what they said
    But they weren’t jokin’

    Way out on the desert sands
    Lies a desperate lover
    They call her the "Queen of Oil"
    So much to discover

    Don’t need no ad machine
    Telling me what I need
    Don’t need no Madison Avenue War
    Don’t need no more boxes I can see

    Covered in flags but I can’t see them on TV

    Don’t need no more lies
    Don’t need no more lies
    Don’t need no more lies
    Don’t need no more lies

    ......

    The restless consumer flies
    Around the world each day
    With such an appetite for taste and grace

    ......

    People from around the world
    Need someone to listen
    We’re starving and dying from our disease
    We need your medicine
    How do you pay for war
    And leave us dyin’ ?
    When you could do so much more
    You’re not even tryin’

    ......

    Don’t need no TV ad
    Tellin’ me how sick I am
    Don’t want to know how many people are like me
    Don’t need no dizziness
    Don’t need no nausea
    Don’t need no side effects like diarrhea or sexual death

    Don’t need no more lies
    Don’t need no more lies
    Don’t need no more lies
    Don’t need no more lies

    The restless consumer lies
    Asleep in her hotel
    With such an appetite
    For anything that sells

    ......

    A hundred voices from a hundred lands
    Need someone to listen
    People are dying here and there
    They don’t see the world the way you do
    There’s no mission accomplished here
    Just death to thousands

    A hundred voices from a hundred lands
    Cry out in unison

    Don’t need no terror squad
    Don’t want no damned Jihad
    Blowin’ themselves away in my hood
    But we don’t talk to them
    So we don’t learn from them
    Hate don’t negotiate with Good

    Don’t need no more lies
    Don’t need no more lies
    Don’t need no more lies
    Don’t need no more lies

    The restless comsumer flies
    Around the world each day
    With such an appetite for efficiency
    .....
    And pace ......

    Don’t need no more lies


    SHOCK AND AWE
    Back in the days of shock and awe
    We came to liberate them all
    History was the cruel judge of overconfidence
    Back in the days of shock and awe

    Back in the days of "mission accomplished"
    Our chief was landing on the deck
    The sun was setting on a golden photo op
    Back in the days of "mission accomplished"

    Thousands of bodies in the ground
    Brought home in boxes to a trumpet’s sound
    No one sees them coming home that way
    Thousands buried in the grund

    Thousands of children scarred for life
    Millions of tears for a soldier’s wife
    Both sides are losing now
    Heaven takes them in
    Thousands of children scarred for life

    We had a chance to change our mind
    But somehow wisdom was hard to find
    We went with what we knew and now we can’t go back
    But we had a chance to change our mind.


    FAMILIES
    When you try to bring our spirit home
    Won’t you celebrate our lives
    In a way that’s right for our children
    and families

    When you write your songs about us
    Won’t you try to do us justice
    Because we want to be just like you
    and your families

    I see a light ahead
    There’s a chill wind blowin’ in my head
    I wish that I was home instead
    with my family

    There’s a universe between us now
    But I want to reach out and tell you how
    much you mean to me
    and my family

    I’m goin’ back to the USA
    I just got my ticket today
    I can’t wait to see you again
    in the USA.


    FLAGS OF FREEDOM

    Today’s the day our younger son
    Is going off to war
    Fightin’ in the age old battle
    We’ve sometimes won before
    Flags that line old main street
    Are blowin’ in the wind
    These must be the flags of freedom flyin’

    Church bells are ringin’
    As the families stand and wave
    Some of them are cryin’
    But the soldiers look so brave
    Lookin’ straight ahead
    Like they know just where they’re goin’
    Past the flags of freedom flyin’

    Sister has her headphones on
    She hears the music blasting
    She sees her brother marchin’ by
    Their bond is everlasting
    Listening to Bob Dylan singin’ in 1963
    Watching the flags of freedom flyin’

    She sees the president speakin’
    On a Flat-screen TV
    In the window of the old appliance store
    She turns to see her brother again
    But he’s already walkin’ past
    The flags of freedom flyin’

    Have you seen the flags of freedom’
    What color are they now’
    Do you think that you believe in yours
    More than they do theirs somehow’
    When you see the flags of freedom flyin’

    Today’s the day our younger son
    Is goin’ off to war
    Fightin’ in the age old battle
    We’ve sometimes won before
    Flags that line old main street
    Are blowin’ in the wind
    These must be the flags of freedom flyin’


    LET’S IMPEACH THE PRESIDENT
    Let’s impeach the President for lying
    And misleading our country into war
    Abusing all the power that we gave him
    And shipping all our money out the door

    Who’s the man who hired all the criminals
    The White House shadows who hide behind closed doors
    They 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’

    Flip - Flop
    Flip - Flop
    Flip - Flop
    Flip - Flop

    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 cracking down on steroids
    Since he sold his old baseball team
    There’s lots of people looking at big trouble
    But of course our president is clean.

    Thank God


    LOOKIN’ FOR A LEADER
    Lookin’ for a Leader
    To bring our country home
    Re-unite the red white and blue
    Before it turns to stone

    Lookin’ for somebody
    Young enough to take it on
    Clean up the corruption
    And make the country strong

    Walkin’ among our people
    There’s someone who’s straight and strong
    To lead us from desolation
    And a broken world gone wrong

    Someone walks among us
    And I hope he hears the call
    And maybe it’s a woman
    Or a black man after all

    Yeah maybe it’s Obama
    But he thinks that he’s too young
    Maybe it’s Colin Powell
    To right what he’s done wrong

    America has a leader
    But he’s not in the house
    He’s waling here among us
    And we’ve got to seek him out

    Yeah we’ve got our election
    But corruption has a chance
    We got to have a clean win
    To regain confidence

    AMERICA is beautiful
    But she has an ugly side
    We’re lookin’ for a leader
    In this country far and wide

    We’re lookin’ for a leader
    With the great spirit on his side

    Someone walks among us
    And I hope he hears the call
    And maybe it’s a woman
    Or a black man after all.


    ROGER AND OUT
    Trippin’ down that old Hippie Highway
    Got to thinkin’ ’bout you again
    Wonderin’ how it really was for you
    And how it happened in the end
    But I guess I’ll never know the truth
    If you were really all alone

    We were just a couple of kids then
    Livin’ each and every day
    When we both went down to register
    We were laughin’ all the way
    That’s when we named it Hippie Highway
    I still call it that today

    Roger and out good buddy
    I still call it that today

    Two camaros racin’ down the road
    Feels just like yesterday

    Roger and out good buddy
    I feel you in the air today

    I know you gave for your country
    I feel you in the air today

    Roger and out good buddy


    AMERICA THE BEAUTIFUL
    O beautiful for spacious skies,
    For amber waves of grain,
    For purple mountain majesties
    Above the fruited plain!
    America! America!
    God shed his grace on thee
    And crown thy good with brotherhood
    From sea to shining sea!