Songwriters as Poets

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Went back to an entry that Cara, the "hostess" at FreeVerse, posted last year. Can songs be lyrical poetry? Can songwriters act as poets?

I truly think so. But not every songwriter writes poetry every time. Here's one that runs about 90% poetry, in my estimation. She's one of the two "Indigo Girls" .

"Come On Home"

Dark clouds are comin' like an army

Soon the sky will open up and disarm me

You will go just like you've gone before

One sad soldier off to war, enemies that only you can see.

Dishes stacked, the table cleared

It's always like the scene of the last supper here

You speak so cryptically that's not news to me

The flood is here it will carry you

And I've got work to do.

There is fire there is lust

Some will trade it all for someone they could trust

There's a bag of silver for a box of nails

It's so simple the betrayal

Though it's known to change the world and what's to come.

Just come on home, the team you're hitched to has a mind of its own

But it's just the forces of your past you've fought before

Don't you recognize them anymore

I'm stacking sandbags against the river of your troubles.

There's the given and the expected

I count my blessings while I eye what I've neglected

Is this for better is this for worse

You're all jammed up and the dam's about to burst.

I hear the owl in the night

I realize that some things never are made right

By some will we string together here

Days to months and months to years

What if everything we have adds up to nothing?

Come on home, the team you're hitched to has a mind of its own

But it's just the forces of your past you've fought before

Come back here and shut the door

I'm stacking sandbags against the river of your troubles.

~Emily Saliers

Can't Get Over

The film I just saw about the war in Iraq. Finally, reality.

Check it out here:



http://www.epinions.com/review/The_Hurt_Locker/content_480619564676


Who knew this guy Jeremy Renner had this kind of performance in him? He was kind of a punk in the summer (failed) run of "The Unusuals". 47 (or so, I'm inexact) of us saw the TV show

If this is true, they must be stopped.

WASHINGTON (CNN) -- The Bush administration has launched a "significant escalation" of covert operations in Iran, sending U.S. commandos to spy on the country's nuclear facilities and undermine the Islamic republic's government, journalist Seymour Hersh said Sunday.

White House, CIA and State Department officials declined comment on Hersh's report, which appears in this week's issue of The New Yorker.

Hersh told CNN's "Late Edition with Wolf Blitzer" that Congress has authorized up to $400 million to fund the secret campaign, which involves U.S. special operations troops and Iranian dissidents.

President Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney have rejected findings from U.S. intelligence agencies that Iran has halted a clandestine effort to build a nuclear bomb and "do not want to leave Iran in place with a nuclear program," Hersh said.

"They believe that their mission is to make sure that before they get out of office next year, either Iran is attacked or it stops its weapons program," Hersh said.

The new article, "Preparing the Battlefield," is the latest in a series of articles accusing the Bush administration of preparing for war with Iran. He based the report on accounts from current and former military, intelligence, and congressional sources.

"As usual with his quarterly pieces, we'll decline to comment," White House spokesman Gordon Johndroe told CNN.


MY APOLOGIES TO THE SCARECROW AND THE TIN MAN.