Posted by
Christopher on Wednesday, October 31, 2007 11:58:51 AM
I just turned 32. I have always considered myself part of the “counter-counter-culture” if you will, and because of that I didn’t have many like-minded friends growing up. Sometimes is seems my generation (and the ones coming up now) are all sorts of bad, lazy and hopeless. Does everyone just swallow the lies taught to them in school and trumpeted in the media about their own nation? But there are still ones after my own heart, some of them are in popular music. I present to you part of the brand new Avenged Sevenfold song, “Critical Acclaim”:
Self-righteousness is wearing thin
Heart bleeds but not for fellow men
I've had enough
It's time for something real
I don't respect the words you're speaking
Gone too far
A clone
So how does it feel to know that someone's kid
in the heart of America has blood on their hands
fighting to defend your rights
so you can maintain a lifestyle
that insults his family's existence
Shhh…be quiet you might ____ somebody off
Like the heartbeat of this country when antagonized too long
I'll be damned if you count me in as part of your generous hypocrisy
All the way from the east to the west we
got this high society
looking down on their very foundation
constantly reminding us that our actions
are the cause of all their problems
Pointing their fingers in every
direction and blaming their
own nation for who wins the elections
They've never contributed a ____ing thing to the
country they love to criticize
Excuse the obscene, ignore the untrue
Depictions we see try and get through
Admitting mistakes can hurt
I'm not the last but I sure ain't the first