Somebody posted the lyrics for The Fletcher Memorial Home by Pink Floyd last night. I've heard it before, but never thought about the lyrics. It is very representative of where we are now. Especially the toys part. Do we keep playing with THEIR toys to and save this country/world? Do we take the toys back as ours? Or do we say fuck the toys and these computers and do what needs to be done?
The American Meat packing glitterati is Mika, Chris Wallace and the other talking heads.
I know it's fucked up and all that, but what do we do?
Need guidance.
Pink Floyd - The Fletcher Memorial Home
Take all your overgrown infants away somewhere
And build them a home, a little place of their own.
The Fletcher Memorial
Home for Incurable Tyrants and Kings.
And they can appear to themselves every day
On closed circuit T.V.
To make sure they're still real.
It's the only connection they feel.
"Ladies and gentlemen, please welcome, Reagan and Haig,
Mr. Begin and friend, Mrs. Thatcher, and Paisly,
"Hello Maggie!"
Mr. Brezhnev and party.
"Who's the bald chap?"
The ghost of McCarthy,
The memories of Nixon.
"Good-bye!"
And now, adding color, a group of anonymous latin-
American Meat packing glitterati.
Did they expect us to treat them with any respect?
They can polish their medals and sharpen their
Smiles, and amuse themselves playing games for awhile.
Boom boom, bang bang, lie down you're dead.
Safe in the permanent gaze of a cold glass eye
With their favorite toys
They'll be good girls and boys
In the Fletcher Memorial Home for colonial
Wasters of life and limb.
Is everyone in?
Are you having a nice time?
Now the final solution can be applied.