sing, you fools, but you got it wrong.

I went to listen to this guy talk the other day.  He's cool.  And smart.  I approve.  Got started in the Peace Corps, but has made it this far.  He gives me faith in our diplomats [but as I've already heard, the State Department says things that other people in government don't want to hear]. 

I also want his job. 

//

I love Evita, more and more and more. 

show business kept us all alive since 17 october 1945
but the star has gone, the glamour's worn thin, that's a pretty bad state for a state to be in
instead of government we had a stage, instead of ideas a prima donna's rage
instead of help we were given a crowd, she didn't say much but she said it loud!

it's real, the pain you feel; you trust, you must confess.

"I Don't Want to Wait" by Paula Cole really shouldn't have been the Dawson's Creek theme song.  Now all the AMVs set to it are: Dawson's Creek, Titanic, Gossip Girl, One Tree Hill, the O.C., Lady Diana (?), Harry Potter, Naruto, and Narnia. Granted, it's a sappy-sounding song, but read the lyrics. None of these fandoms comes close to deserving the lyrics of this song. I don't think these AMV makers even looked up the lyrics, to be honest, because this is not a graduation song, this is not a high school song. [shipper: this is a G/CC song!  rest of self: can you stfu for 1 second, jesus christ!]  Poor Paula Cole.  And since when did she look like my vision of Andromache?  Should I post ~*~*TEARJERKER*~*~ warnings?

she had two babies, one was six months, one was three, in the war of '44
every telephone ring, every heartbeat stinging, when she thought it was god calling her
oh would her son grow to know his father?

i don't wanna wait for our lives to be over, I want to know right now, what will it be? will it be yes or will it be sorry?

he showed up all wet on the rainy front step, wearing shrapnel in his skin
and the war he saw lives inside him still, it's so hard to be gentle and warm
the years passed by and now he had granddaughters

so you look at me from across the room, you're wearing your anguish again
believe me, I know the feeling, it sucks you into the jaws of anger
so dig a little more deeply, all we have is this very moment
and I don't wanna do what his father and his father and his father did, I wanna be here now

[other songs that have been ruined by teenyboppers who don't know lyrics and their enablers, pop radio: "Iris" - Goo Goo Dolls; "Bittersweet Symphony" - the Verve; "The Freshmen" - The Verve Pipe; "Breathe (2 AM)" - Anna Nalick.]