RANDOM JACK POETRY HOUR: AMERICAN HISTORY
Times of Confusion
Back in 1965
We were on the edge of something new
We didn’t know what it was
We didn’t know what we’d do
But the old world was rapidly fading
Something had to take its place
We reinvented living in the world
We reconstructed the living space
Based on giving what you had
And taking what you needed
They were times of great upheaval
The revolution had been seeded
We were riding in the Magic Bus
They tried to send us off to war
When we said no they spit on us
And kicked us out the door
They were times of great confusion
Times of wonder and of shame
We rallied to the cause of peace
We found someone to blame
Those times live on in each of us
In a thousand different ways
They shaped the road we traveled
Made us who we are today
We are a nation twice divided
Once by race, once by culture
When we look at the American way
Some see hawks, some see vultures
We are many things at once
We are war and we are peace
We are rich and we are poor
We are hunger at a feast
We are everything to everyone
And nothing to a few
When times are rough in Kansas
They’re hard in San Francisco too
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