Frank Zappa 1966 Wrote:
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> Aint no way to delay that trouble commin every
> day.
>
>
> "Trouble Every Day"
>
> Well I'm about to get sick
> From watchin' my TV
> Been checkin' out the news
> Until my eyeballs fail to see
> I mean to say that every day
> Is just another rotten mess
> And when it's gonna change, my friend
> Is anybody's guess
>
> So I'm watchin' and I'm waitin'
> Hopin' for the best
> Even think I'll go to prayin'
> Every time I hear 'em sayin'
> That there's no way to delay
> That trouble comin' every day
> No way to delay
> That trouble comin' every day
>
> Wednesday I watched the riot . . .
> Seen the cops out on the street
> Watched 'em throwin' rocks and stuff
> And chokin' in the heat
> Listened to reports
> About the whisky passin' 'round
> Seen the smoke and fire
> And the market burnin' down
> Watched while everybody
> On his street would take a turn
> To stomp and smash and bash and crash
> And slash and bust and burn
>
> And I'm watchin' and I'm waitin'
> Hopin' for the best
> Even think I'll go to prayin'
> Every time I hear 'em sayin'
> That there's no way to delay
> That trouble comin' every day
> No way to delay
> That trouble comin' every day
>
> Well, you can cool it,
> You can heat it . . .
> 'Cause, baby, I don't need it . . .
> Take your TV tube and eat it
> 'N all that phony stuff on sports
> 'N all the unconfirmed reports
> You know I watched that rotten box
> Until my head begin to hurt
> From checkin' out the way
> The newsman say they get the dirt
> Before the guys on channel so-and-so
>
> And further they assert
> That any show they'll interrupt
> To bring you news if it comes up
> They say that if the place blows up
> They will be the first to tell,
> Because the boys they got downtown
> Are workin' hard and doin' swell,
> And if anybody gets the news
> Before it hits the street,
> They say that no one blabs it faster
> Their coverage can't be beat
>
> And if another woman driver
> Gets machine-gunned from her seat
> They'll send some joker with a brownie
> And you'll see it all complete
>
> So I'm watchin' and I'm waitin'
> Hopin' for the best
> Even think I'll go to prayin'
> Every time I hear 'em sayin'
> That there's no way to delay
> That trouble comin' every day
> No way to delay
> That trouble comin' every day
>
> Hey, you know something people?
> I'm not black
> But there's a whole lots a times
> I wish I could say I'm not white
>
> Well, I seen the fires burnin'
> And the local people turnin'
> On the merchants and the shops
> Who used to sell their brooms and mops
> And every other household item
> Watched the mob just turn and bite 'em
> And they say it served 'em right
> Because a few of them are white,
> And it's the same across the nation
> Black and white discrimination
> Yellin' "You can't understand me!"
> 'N all that other jazz they hand me
> In the papers and TV and
> All that mass stupidity
> That seems to grow more every day
> Each time you hear some nitwit say
> He wants to go and do you in
> Because the color of your skin
> Just don't appeal to him
> (No matter if it's black or white)
> Because he's out for blood tonight
>
>
>
>
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dtk2gozGtbg
Pretty much sums it up. This was written during the early civil rights struggle and the Veit Nam war. Times were crazy then. The events described in this song led up to Dr. King and RFK getting gunned down. The Black Panthers movement and other black mitilia groups swearing to take up arms against the government and white Amreica.
I was 11 years old in 1966 and could not believe my eyes. Resurrection City on the Mall,68 and the marches and riots in DC. It was a scary time to be a white American. Whites killing blacks, bombing churches and other atrocities Like lynchings and crosses burning. WoolWorth food counter sit in and when they showed the white kids spitting on the black kids pouring sodas and milk shakes on them it made me be ashamed for my race. These were middle class white kids that had nothing better to do. But they hated and hated hard. Hated people they didn't even know. It is/was embarrassing.
Todays "cause" seems less important and centers around matters that parrents should be concerning themselves with in terms of preventing. I wish that people would stop and look inward to see if there is something they can do to remedy the situation. But alas that is asking quite a bit now isn't it.
Great post BTW, very poignant.
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