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Sunday, October 1, 2023

Nature of Man

Feelin' kinda lumpy today, going through my list of YouTube Watch Later videos and I notice these two cover the same topic. The first one is animated, I like animated stuff. The second one hit me because I never realized what the song was about.


A Brief Disagreement
Steve Cutts


“Come Out and Play” (The Offspring) Klezmer Cover by Robyn Adele Anderson
Robyn Adele Anderson

Come Out and Play lyrics:

Like the latest fashion
Like a spreading disease
The kids are strappin' on their way to the classroom
Getting weapons with the greatest of ease
The gangs stake out their own campus locale
And if they catch you slippin' then it's all over pal
If one guy's colors and the other's don't mix
They're gonna bash it up, bash it up, bash it up, bash it up
Hey, man, you talkin' back to me?
Take him out (you gotta keep 'em separated)
Hey, man, you disrespecting me?
Take him out (you gotta keep 'em separated)
Hey, they don't pay no mind
If you're under 18 you won't be doing any time
Hey, come out and play
By the time you hear the siren
It's already too late
One goes to the morgue and the other to jail
One guy's wasted and the other's a waste
It goes down the same as the thousand before
No one's getting smarter, no one's learning the score
Your never-ending spree of death and violence and hate
Is gonna tie your own rope, tie your own rope, tie your own...
Hey, man, you disrespecting me?
Take him out (you gotta keep 'em separated
Hey, man, you talkin' back to me?
Take him out (you gotta keep 'em separated)
Hey, they don't pay no mind
If you're under 18 you won't be doing any time
Hey, come out and play
It goes down the same as the thousand before
No one's getting smarter, no one's learning the score
Your never-ending spree of death and violence and hate
Is gonna tie your own rope, tie your own rope, tie your own...
Hey, man, you talking back to me?
Take him out (you gotta keep 'em separated)
Hey, man, you disrespecting me?
Take him out (you gotta keep 'em separated)
Hey, they don't pay no mind
If you're under 18 you won't be doing any time
Hey, come out and play

Now that we have our war glasses on, we can see that all the minor wars going on all over the world exude an aura of inevitability.

P. S. I usually don't watch YouTube videos when I encounter them on other blogs, but I add them to the Watch Later list. Eventually I will get around to watching them.


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