Wrote this to (not good) music I wrote in 2011. Working on the music again and decided to post the lyric here to get some input.
Historical background is as follows.
There have been only two true "World Wars."
The first we (in the USA) call the "French and Indian Wars" while the rest of the world calls it the "Seven Years War."
The second was World War II. (WWI was a European conflict that was a "world war" only in that some of the fighting occurred in colonies around the world).
Both occurred after world wide economic distress caused by long, deflationary periods, (almost exactly like our own continuing situation) and both occurred as a new world power threatened to economically surpass the old world power (as China has just begun to do to the U.S.)
I'm always amazed that no one gets alarmed when I discuss these similarities. We all "know" that "wars like that" are a thing of the past. We all know it "couldn't happen again."
And yet... so many other things that "couldn't happen again" have happened since 2008. Perhaps if we could rouse ourselves to BE alarmed, we might prevent these wicked things that "couldn't happen again."
But why worry. It "can't happen here and now."
Here is the lyric:
SOMETHING WICKED THIS WAY COMES
Something wicked this way comes.
Play the fifes and beat the drums.
They’ll burn the mansions and level the slums,
when something wicked this way comes.
To understand what we must see --
Apply the lessons of history
The money and power shift radically
before this wicked thing can be.
All that’s happening has happened before
False confidence and the closing door.
The dress rehearsals in minor wars.
If we could see it would frighten us more.
Something wicked this way comes. It’s coming - It’s coming.
Something wicked this way comes. It’s coming - It’s coming.
Something wicked this way comes. It’s coming and it’s not too far away.
Never again say nevermore. The wicked thing that comes is war.
The promises made on a distant shore.
The war we said would end all wars.
When the next war came, it dwarfed the one before.
We know There will be no end to war.
The only one’s who’ve seen the end of war are the dead.
Only the foolish remain unaware that there’s another one up ahead.
Believe what you want but you can hear the hum.
The machinery of war that this way comes.
Something wicked this way comes. It’s coming - It’s coming.
Something wicked this way comes. It’s coming - It’s coming.
Something wicked this way comes. It’s coming and it’s not too far away.
Never again say nevermore. The wicked thing that comes is war.
Something wicked this way comes.
Play the fifes and beat the drums.
They’ll burn the mansions and level the slums,
When something wicked this way comes.
Something wicked this way comes.
Play the fifes and beat the drums.
They’ll burn the mansions and level the slums,
When something wicked this way comes.+
