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This Is America. We're Proud. We're Not Afraid Of A Bunch Of Terrorists. But This Government Is All About Terror Alerts And Scaring Us At Airports. We're Changing The Constitution Out Of Fear. We Spend All Our Time Looking Up Each Other's Dresses. Fear's The Only Issue The Republican Party Has. Vote For Them, Or The Terrorists Will Win. That's Not What Reagan Was About. I Hate To Think About Our Soldiers Over In Iraq Fighting For A Country That's Slipping Away.

The Turn I Made Was Not The One I Planned. And I Watched My Social Standing Slip Away From Me, While I Watched The Bottle Slowly Take Command.

When You Get To Readin' About Where The Music And John Steinbeck And All Those People Like That Come From, The Further You Go The More Interesting It Becomes.

There's Two Or Three Kids Out There Trying To Make Good Music, And The Rest Of Them Sound Like It's Been Strained Through Some Kind Of White Toast Or Something. It All Sounds Just Too Neat And Perfect, With No Surprise To It At All. No Story, No Nothing. It's Like Building Cars, Like An Assembly Line. It Doesn't Sound Like Anything That Came From A Guitar.

I Think It Was Tommy Who Told Me, 'when Your Song Is Called 'xyz' Or Whatever, Every Line Has Got To Make Sense Against Your Title.' He Showed Me Little Methods Of Proving To Yourself Whether The Line Belongs, And Ways Of Finding Out Whether You Were Able To Get More Out Of A Line If You Tried.