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Thread ID: 14766 | Posts: 2 | Started: 2004-08-20
2004-08-20 16:43 | User Profile
There's a hole in the world tonight There's a cloud of fear and sorrow There's a hole in the world tonight Don't let there be a hole in the world tomorrow
They say that anger is just love disappointed They say that love is just a state of mind But all this fighting over who is anointed Oh how can people be so blind?
There's a hole in the world tonight There's a cloud of fear and sorrow There's a hole in the world tonight Don't let there be a hole in the world tomorrow
Oh they tell me there's a place over yonder Cool water running through the burning sand Until we learn to love one another We will never reach the Promised Land
There's a hole in the world tonight There's a cloud of fear and sorrow There's a hole in the world tonight Don't let there be a hole in the world tomorrow
They say that anger is just love disappointed They say that love is just a state of mind But all this fighting over who will be anointed Oh how can people be so blind?
There's a hole in the world tonight There's a cloud of fear and sorrow There's a hole in the world tonight Don't let there be a hole in the world tomorrow
2004-08-20 17:33 | User Profile
BTW, I just busted out the insert on my copy of "Very Best of the Eagles" and wouldn't ya know, there's interviews with the band about every song.
Here's an excerpt from Don Henley:
"Then, other things started happening that gave additional meanings to 'Hole in the World,' particularly after the [Iraqi] war started. The fighting was supposedly over in May, and yet one or two or three of our boys were--and still are--getting killed every day, which means somebody's daddy is not coming home. So that's another 'hole'--a huge hole in somebody's life--a child, a mother, a father, a brother, a sister. There are holes in the information that the public is getting, both from the media and the government. There are holes in what passes for the logic of this administration's foreign policy. The stars and stripes may be flying and the drums beating, but things are never going to be the same for some people. The ill-conceived attempt to 'avenge' the victims of September 11 has only brought more misery and sorrow. Things in today's world are not so black-and-white, so clear cut. This is not a John Wayne movie. This is the 21st century. It's complex, and people have forgotten our history--if they ever really knew it in the first place."
I'm surprised Bill O'Reilly, Rush Limbaugh and the rest of the neocon attack dogs haven't gone after The Eagles yet. Then again, it's a little harder to "Dixie Chick" a legend.