You want 2 change the world
Now here's your chance
Opportunity opened the door
Soul soared into the heavens
So if you're blessed 2
Sit in the cat bird seat
Perched overlooking the land of the free
Please do us a favor
And don't change your tune
Or revert to kissing the posteriors
Simply because they feel you owe them
One obligation to your integrity
Remember its not just you
Sleeping well at night
200 plus million counting on you
Praise, Hail the great leader
Or sticks sharpened to drive
A stake through a heart of stone...

Talk is cheap and a pretty face
Will only go so far
Get your hands dirty
Wipe the sweat off your brow
Delve into the soul of a grunt
Toil and blood
For real change
Is more then a clever sound bite
Or a publicity stunt...

Your heart may be in the right place
But I'm not sure
What direction you're heading
And if your plan is spotty
Just like a rough draft
That may be the greatest story ever told
We just hope that we don't impulsively
Put our faith and ever last penny
In a ship that never sails.

At this stage of my life
Looking dapper and plastering
Empty platitudes on bumpers
Are meant for the Prom King and Queen
Homecoming, yadda, yadda and
If this is the last gasp of honesty
I'll cast my vote in abstention
Stay in the house until the storm is over
Yet it may never die down
Until we're six feet in the ground...

So if this what you want
Commander in Chief, Mr. President
You better build your defense
Cause this ain't the boy scouts
Or some idealized, imagined scene
From A Hollywood Movie
This is reality
Ugly, beautiful, heroic and treasonous
It's never boring
Nor in between
Some days, you'll wish that
Face in the mirror was only staring at you
Instead of gazing up at the hill
Or peering down at the valley
Yearning for paradise
But unwilling to give
A god damn thing except
A piece of our mind and
A nasty glimpse of free will
So...Good luck...My friend....

P-Feb 8, 2008.