♫ I can understand why you’d want a better manBut why you wanna make him outta me?Well, I just muddle along, knowing my right from wrongWhy won’t you let me be? ♫— No one wrote better opening stanzas than Peter … Continue reading The Weekend Politics Thread Reaches a Resolution

♪ The thousand times I lived before were just in my dreamsWell, I woke up to realize it didn’t mean a thingI’ve seen several better places, several better timesSomehow those memories got left behind ♪— As always, Son Volt rules … Continue reading The Weekend Politics Thread Gets in a Few Parting Jabs

♬ CarolIs calling to meNow I can see ♬— Sadly, tabbing these Chicago-based purveyors of the purest of pure power pop the next big thing proved the very first lie. Your jaded Weekend Politics Thread host believed he had seen … Continue reading The Weekend Politics Thread Sings From a Different Hymnal

♫ And it’s a thin line between pleasing yourselfAnd pleasing somebody else ♫— Love a WPT header for never offering the shortest route from point A to point B Uvular hews to most social conventions. Except for never marrying. Or … Continue reading The Weekend Politics Thread Drawls a Line

♬ I hate graveyards and old pawn shopsFor they always bring me tearsI can’t forgive the way they robbed meOf my childhood souvenirs ♬— The things we’ve kept made us who we became Watch for not seeing much of your … Continue reading The Weekend Politics Thread Gets Personally Political in a Microcosm of Maldistribution

♪ When the whistle blows each morningAnd I walk down in that cold, dark mineI say a prayer to my dear SaviorPlease let me see the sunshine one more time ♪— You’d pray, too, if your job required pickaxing a … Continue reading The Weekend Politics Thread Grumbles Into the Mine Field

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♫ They’re growing houses in the fields between the townsAnd the Starlight drive-in movie’s closing downThe road is gone to the way it was beforeAnd the spaces won’t be spaces anymore ♫— A singer-songwriter from New Jersey who late-80s and … Continue reading The Weekend Politics Thread Slips Into the Zone

♫ A push from the left and a shove from the right ♫— No, no one said they wanted a revolution Calm yourselves. Your agitating Weekend Politics Thread host has not joined a revivified Symbianese Liberation Army. Even if he … Continue reading The Weekend Politics Thread Picks a Bone

♩ Lost sight of groundNever been so downNothing here to stand on It’s a war-weary roadAnother faceless tombstoneNothing here to stand on I turn to face the windMay never get outForever caught in a spinNo better place to begin ♩— … Continue reading The Weekend Politics Thread Makes Its Stand

♫ And there’s always something moreLost in talk, I waste my timeAnd it’s all been said beforeWhile further down behind the masqueradeThe tears are thereI don’t ask for all that muchI just want someone to careAnswer right now ♫— A, … Continue reading The Weekend Politics Thread Rides an Emotional Roller Coaster

♫ There’s lots of stuff to drag you downLots of stuff you shouldn’t mess aroundBut I think I’m in too deepIt’s getting warm and I won’t keep ♫— Not vampires, werewolves or mummies. Just zombies. Your un-undead Weekend Politics Thread … Continue reading The Weekend Politics Thread Craves Brains … BRAINS!

♭ Swelling up ’til it don’t matter muchOverwhelming, choking without a way to get it outIt screams inside and I wait for control, for containmentThen another waveI lash out at any who choose, choose to be thereRejecting responsibility, I hold … Continue reading The Weekend Politics Thread Blows Its Cool

♩ Who are the ones that we kept in charge?Killers, thieves, and lawyers ♩— The Black Rider Has a Bridge to Sell You More precisely, your off-hiatus WPT host asks what does anyone mean when they defend the indefensible as … Continue reading The Weekend Politics Thread Asks ‘What if God Was One of Us?’

♫ I confess I felt so worthlessI lost hope; big price to payNow there were stars and there were wild bird circlingA lot of screams, and fight breaks outBetween wars and between burningsHe did it all for a chance to … Continue reading The Weekend Politics Thread Picks Its Battles

♫ It’s not easyNothin’ to say ’cause it’s already saidIt’s never easyWhen I look on in your eyesThen I find that I’ll do fineWhen I look on in your eyesThen I’ll do better ♫— Heck, listen to the whole album … Continue reading The Weekend Politics Thread Reflects on the Recriminations of Reminiscing

♪ I smiled cos I loved you bothSo, I put the apron onI put the apron on ♪— The Once and Future Wesley Stace Think British folk rockers with a deep catalog of paeans to proletarians, and the brain brings … Continue reading The Weekend Politics Thread Belabors a Point About Working It Out

If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue,Or walk with Kings—nor lose the common touch— Nothing starts as a cliche Marvel to think “What if the C.S.A. won the U.S. Civil War?” has topped the sub-subgenre of alternate … Continue reading The Weekend Politics Threads Speculates of Late

♪ It’s only human to want to inherit every feeling you’ve gotAnd like it or not, let’s take it to the Nth degreeHere we goGive us ten bucks and a head startHere’s where we goThe puzzle’s pulling apartAnd here’s the … Continue reading The Weekend Politics Thread Relates

♫ I must walk five miles a dayBut when I sit downThis is what they saySay, I gotta move onGotta move onGot no home, but I gotta move along ♫— The Best ‘80s Band From Atlanta, Not Athens or Marietta … Continue reading The Weekend Politics Thread Proposes a Solution