Mercy, Mercy Me

I'm looking at the front pages of several newspapers this morning and I started hearing songs in my head. If you are too young to remember or frozen in a hip hop / rap /dance rut, then you should look up the lyrics to some of these songs; Mercy Mercy Me and What's Going On by Marvin Gaye, Ball of Confusion by The Temptations, For What It's Worth by Buffalo Springfield, and A Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall by Bob Dylan. In fact go through Bob Dylan's catalog and you'll find a bunch of them. They were singing about the economy, the war, the ecology, (One of the ecology signs of the times was a green peace sign.) race, and injustice. Funny how things never change. And then I think of "Won't Get Fooled Again" by The Who. Sigh.....