Mo' Music-12 Years and Counting

We have been in Afghanistan for 12 years making this conflict our nation's longest. Quick! Name a song about the war. Anyone? Buehler? Yeah, Nada. Nothing on the airwaves.  Not surprising considering how little debate no less discussion there has been about this and the truly bogus Iraq invasion in the public forum. Not like 'Nam is it? Welp-here's a couple of tunes by not-so-obscure artists. Lyrics are provided.

From 2004, John Fogerty

"Deja Vu all over again"

Did you hear 'em talkin' 'bout it on the radio

Did you try to read the writing on the wall

Did that voice inside you say I've heard it all before

It's like Deja Vu all over again

Day by day I hear the voices rising

Started with a whisper like it did before

Day by day we count the dead and dying

Ship the bodies back home while the networks all keep score

Did you hear 'em talkin' 'bout it on the radio

Could you're eyes belive the writing on the wall

Did that voice inside you say I've heard it all before

It's like Deja Vu all over again

One by one I see the old ghosts rising

Stumblin' 'cross Big Muddy

Where the light gets dim

Day after day another Mamma's crying

She's lost her precious Child

To a war that has no end

Did you hear 'em talkin' 'bout it on the radio

Did you stop to read the writing at the wall

Did that voice inside you say

I've seen this all before

It's like Deja Vu all over again

It's like Deja Vu all over again

From 2004-Tom Waits

"Day After Tomorrow"

I got your letter today
And I miss you all so much, here
I can't wait to see you all
And I'm counting the days, dear
I still believe that there's gold
At the end of the world
And I'll come home
To Illinois
On the day after tomorrow

It is so hard
And it's cold here
And I'm tired of taking orders
And I miss old Rockford town
Up by the Wisconsin border
But I miss you won't believe
Shoveling snow and raking leaves
And my plane will touch tomorrow
On the day after tomorrow

I close my eyes
Every night
And I dream that I can hold you
They fill us full of lies
Everyone buys
About what it means to be a soldier
I still don't know how I'm supposed to feel
About all the blood that's been spilled
Look out on the street
Get me back home
On the day after tomorrow

You can't deny
The other side
Don't want to die
Any more than we do
What I'm trying to say,
Is don't they pray
To the same God that we do?
Tell me, how does God choose?
Whose prayers does he refuse?
Who turns the wheel?
And who throws the dice
On the day after tomorrow?

Mmmmmmm...
I'm not fighting
For justice
I am not fighting
For freedom
I am fighting
For my life
And another day
In the world here
I just do what I've been told
You're just the gravel on the road
And the one's that are lucky
One's come home
On the day after tomorrow

And the summer
It too will fade
And with it comes the winter's frost, dear
And I know we too are made
Of all the things that we have lost here
I'll be twenty-one today
I've been saving all my pay
And my plane will touch down
On the day after tomorrow
And my plane it will touch down
On the day after tomorrow