In '68-David Rovics

[00:00.000] 作曲 : David Stefan Rovics [00:07.746]Let's mark this date together, [00:09.921]lest it pass us by [00:12.224]Let's recall a moment when the powder keg ran dry [00:16.105]When all across the USA cities turned to embers [00:20.576]Anybody old enough vividly remembers [00:24.742]Everything that happened on that date [00:27.453] [00:30.684]Fifty years ago in '68 [00:33.684] [00:37.667]Carpet bombing of the city of Hanoi [00:40.868]Barely two decades after Little Boy [00:45.012]Draft cards burning, [00:47.024]police stations on fire [00:49.213]The powers-that-be down to the wire [00:53.273]The naked emperor was the normative state [00:57.491] [00:59.524]Fifty years ago in '68 [01:02.671] [01:06.200]Both ruling parties were exposed, the question of the day [01:14.225]Mr President how many kids did you kill today [01:18.336]If we try to draft more soldiers, said the general, I can't guarantee [01:22.385]That we could maintain domestic tranquility [01:26.431]A society on the brink, the possibilities so great [01:30.772] [01:32.686]Fifty years ago in '68 [01:35.280] [01:38.795]It was a time when people everywhere were rising from their knees [01:42.801]Just outside the halls of power, throughout the colonies [01:46.567]From Oakland to Algiers, from Saigon to Paris [01:51.089]Structures laid bare for all to see [01:55.488]The use of force alone will not determine our fate [02:00.516] [02:01.396]Fifty years ago in '68 [02:04.054] [02:07.649]Soldiers were kept in barracks lest they figure out the score [02:15.760]That love really can be more powerful than war [02:19.830]The ruling class tried desperately to gain the upper hand [02:23.969]Faced with a society they didn't understand [02:28.324]They just about got stuck beneath the historical weight [02:33.624] [02:34.445]Fifty years ago in '68 [02:36.867] [02:41.074]Anyone in power now knows it might not last [02:44.602]At least if they look back to the fairly recent past [02:48.587]When the consent of the governed was for a time withdrawn [02:53.048]When empires were challenged and some of them were gone [02:57.195]When the movement was global and liberation was its freight [03:01.303] [03:03.306]Fifty years ago in '68 [03:09.626]Fifty years ago in '68 [03:16.114]Fifty years ago in '68 [03:20.242]