Updated Music (Mass Media and Walk Away)
I uploaded new versions of Mass Media and Walk Away this evening. I ended up adding a bridge and chorus to Mass Media, and the song now feels a lot more complete to me. You can check out both songs at audiostreet.net/markheimonen (alternatively at myspace.com/markheimonen)
In an incredibly strange coincidence, I actually wrote and released the initial version of Mass Media the day before Lawrence O'Donnell broke the Karl Rove story. Considering that the song actually directly mentions the smearing of Joseph Wilson, the timing seemed almost too perfect.
Mass Media (Lyrics)
PlameGamte, GannonGate, RatherGate, CoinGate
VoterGate, TortureGate, BoltonGate, RoveGate
Halliburton, Enron, Harkin, WorldCom
Downing Street memos - Where have the weapons gone?
The Moral Values label seems a bit misplaced to me,
but maybe that's just me,
could it be..I just don't know
Corporate-sponsored right-wing think tanks
handing out their lies they sell as news
We have a president who doesn't seem to understand or care
About the consequences of the choices that he makes
He lied about the reason that we went to fight a war
And yet was somehow reelected in 2004
Our media has failed to do its job – the fourth estate –
To hold the government accountable for choices that it makes
The Moral Values label seems a bit misplaced to me,
but maybe that's just me,
could it be..I just don't know
Whatever happened to accountability, responsibility –
Not loyalty, or royalty or fealty
Our government's demanding silence –
Look at Newsweek, Wilson, Rather –
Silenced by the Neocon attack machine
These patriotic claims are just a game – a plan to silence
Truth enough to keep the public in the dark for one more day
It's time to stand for truth – demand our media to do its job –
To seek the truth, expose the secrets and the lies we're told
The Moral Values label seems a bit misplaced to me,
but maybe that's just me,
could it be..I just don't know
PlameGamte, GannonGate, RatherGate, CoinGate
VoterGate, TortureGate, BoltonGate, RoveGate
Halliburton, Enron, Harkin, WorldCom
Downing Street memos - Where have the weapons gone?
The Moral Values label seems a bit misplaced to me,
but maybe that's just me,
could it be..I just don't know
In an incredibly strange coincidence, I actually wrote and released the initial version of Mass Media the day before Lawrence O'Donnell broke the Karl Rove story. Considering that the song actually directly mentions the smearing of Joseph Wilson, the timing seemed almost too perfect.
Mass Media (Lyrics)
PlameGamte, GannonGate, RatherGate, CoinGate
VoterGate, TortureGate, BoltonGate, RoveGate
Halliburton, Enron, Harkin, WorldCom
Downing Street memos - Where have the weapons gone?
The Moral Values label seems a bit misplaced to me,
but maybe that's just me,
could it be..I just don't know
Corporate-sponsored right-wing think tanks
handing out their lies they sell as news
We have a president who doesn't seem to understand or care
About the consequences of the choices that he makes
He lied about the reason that we went to fight a war
And yet was somehow reelected in 2004
Our media has failed to do its job – the fourth estate –
To hold the government accountable for choices that it makes
The Moral Values label seems a bit misplaced to me,
but maybe that's just me,
could it be..I just don't know
Whatever happened to accountability, responsibility –
Not loyalty, or royalty or fealty
Our government's demanding silence –
Look at Newsweek, Wilson, Rather –
Silenced by the Neocon attack machine
These patriotic claims are just a game – a plan to silence
Truth enough to keep the public in the dark for one more day
It's time to stand for truth – demand our media to do its job –
To seek the truth, expose the secrets and the lies we're told
The Moral Values label seems a bit misplaced to me,
but maybe that's just me,
could it be..I just don't know
PlameGamte, GannonGate, RatherGate, CoinGate
VoterGate, TortureGate, BoltonGate, RoveGate
Halliburton, Enron, Harkin, WorldCom
Downing Street memos - Where have the weapons gone?
The Moral Values label seems a bit misplaced to me,
but maybe that's just me,
could it be..I just don't know
posted by markh100 at
11:34 PM
