We won’t get fooled again!!
The TV series CSI has made a theme of using songs of the world-famous band “The Who” as their intro songs. “Las Vegas” has “Who are you” of the same-name album, “New York” has “Baba O’Riley” (only God knows what this song has to do with the subject of the movie) while “Miami” has “We won’t get fooled again” (rather ironic since Horatio Caine never gets fooled, not even when he loses, which is also very rare).
But aside from this, the above song, “We won’t get fooled again” by The Who, could very well have been the theme song of Obama’s political campaign. It is a very political song, a cry for a revolution against those who have lied and cheated their way into power, in any of today social structures.
The americans were fooled once by Bush, it also happened twice, but the third time they heeded the song and cut short GW’s reign of terror.
But now, Romania is closing in on a similar situation, where we will be served the “same old” of political bigotry. Should we sing the song to our dear thieves-in-power? We definitely should. We won’t get fooled again. Some of us never were, but still we were forced by various circumstances to live in a reign of sheet stupidity and lack of principles. Nothing really stands straight, left to right, right to left, no wonder few people know which is which.
So … here it is … ladies and gentlemen, let’s sing it loudly and proudly!
We’ll be fighting in the streets
With our children at our feet
And the morals that they worship will be gone
And the men who spurred us on
Sit in judgement of all wrong
They decide and the shotgun sings the song
I’ll tip my hat to the new constitution
Take a bow for the new revolution
Smile and grin at the change all around me
Pick up my guitar and play
Just like yesterday
Then I’ll get on my knees and pray
We don’t get fooled again
The change, it had to come
We knew it all along
We were liberated from the foe, that’s all
And the world looks just the same
And history ain’t changed
‘Cause the banners, they all flown in the next war
I’ll tip my hat to the new constitution
Take a bow for the new revolution
Smile and grin at the change all around me
Pick up my guitar and play
Just like yesterday
Then I’ll get on my knees and pray
We don’t get fooled again
No, no!
I’ll move myself and my family aside
If we happen to be left half alive
I’ll get all my papers and smile at the sky
For I know that the hypnotized never lie
Do ya?
There’s nothing in the street
Looks any different to me
And the slogans are replaced, by-the-bye
And the parting on the left
Is now the parting on the right
And the beards have all grown longer overnight
I’ll tip my hat to the new constitution
Take a bow for the new revolution
Smile and grin at the change all around me
Pick up my guitar and play
Just like yesterday
Then I’ll get on my knees and pray
We don’t get fooled again
Don’t get fooled again
No, no!
Meet the new boss
Same as the old boss