This is a poem I wrote in 2007. I imagine all of my poetry set to music but I am rarely able to create my own tunes. This one I imagine set to the tune of Do They Know It’s Christmas by Band Aid. The ending I imagine sung to the tune of Give Peace A Chance by John Lennon over the fading chorus. It's just another bad day What more can you say Your mother called you a name And you hit her in the face Then you went outside But could find no place to hide There's a whole corrupt world out there And you don't even care We've all become so full of hate Is this just our fate The callousness of the rich Won't let them give an inch And the covetousness of the poor Means they will always want more Our leaders bring us into war But we don't know what for Who can lead us now Who can help us out What we really need is love And we don't have enough Who can lead us now Who can help us out We need another Jesus For this lost generation We need someone like the Jesus from history We need someone to love us Not to correct the nation We need someone to teach us how to love Our world will never be short Of heroes and their sort They all propose their plans And act on them when they can But when they are overthrown We forget they were ever born Along comes another one With nothing new under the sun All the ideologies Don't mean a thing to me They say the system is good But it doesn't work as it should Our plans go astray And our heroes go away In the meantime we play And quickly lose our way Who can lead us now Who can help us out What we really need is love And we don't have enough Who can lead us now Who can help us out We need another Jesus For this lost generation We need someone like the Jesus from history We need someone to love us Not to correct the nation We need someone to teach us how to love He said that he'd be back Now he's been gone so long Until he returns Who can right the wrong But when he left us behind Feeling so blue He left himself Inside of me and you So don't ask who will take his role We are his hands and feet The love that the world needs Is inside you and me Who can lead us now Who can help us out What we really need is love And we don't have enough Who can lead us now Who can help us out We need another Jesus For this lost generation We need someone like the Jesus from history We need someone to love us Not to correct the nation We need someone to teach us how to love Who can lead us now Who can help us out What we really need is love And we don't have enough Who can lead us now Who can help us out We need another Jesus For this lost generation We need someone like the Jesus from history We need someone to love us Not to correct the nation We need someone to teach us how to love Who can lead us now Who can help us out What we really need is love And we don't have enough Who can lead us now Who can help us out We need another Jesus For this lost generation We need someone like the Jesus from history We need someone to love us Not to correct the nation We need someone to teach us how to love All the people say Calvinism Stoicism Marxism Hinduism Aneurysm Cataclysm And all I'm saying is give Jesus a chance All the people say Give Peace a chance My circumstance Meditation Trance Don't dirty dance Pick on France Auto accidents And all I'm saying is give Jesus a chance All the people say Plato Cicero Marsiglio Vico Russeau Montesquieu And all I'm saying is give Jesus a chance
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AuthorMy name is Dan. I am an author, artist, explorer, and contemplator of subjects large and small. Archives
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