Auditory

So, the O's sucked ass again tonight. Mazzilli has not learned how to manage his bullpen yet. Replacing James Baldwin with Jorge Julio is simply retarded.

Anyway, I'm making this post because I was listening to some Led Zeppelin today (quite possibly the best rock band ever), and I heard some lyrics that I thought we could extrapolate into today's terms. We're faced with a presidential administration becoming increasingly synonymous with deceit, ineptitude and recklessness. Of course, that may be a bad choice of words. The Bush administration isn't becoming increasingly synonymous with those terms; it already is synonymous with those terms. The Zeppelin song, "The Rover," stuck with me as I listened attentively to the lyrics. It's a song I've heard many, many times before, but in a moment of clarity, I thought it was quite appropriate to the ever-socially devolving world in which we live. You can check out the lyrics yourself:

The Rover

I've been to London, seen seven wonders. I know to trip is just to fall.
I used to rock it, sometimes I'd roll it. I always knew what it was for.
There can be no denyin' that the wind 'll shake 'em down.
And the flat world's flyin'. There's a new plague on the land.

If we could just join hands ...

Traversed the planet when heaven sent me. I saw the kings who rule them all.
Still by the firelight and purple moonlight, I hear the rested rivers call.
And the wind is crying, from a love that won't grow cold.
My lover, she is lying, on the dark side of the globe.

If we could just join hands ...

You got me rockin' when I ought to be a-rollin'.
Darlin', tell me, darlin', which way to go.
You keep me rockin', baby, then you keep me stolen.
Won't you tell me, darlin', which way to go? That's right.

Oh how I wonder, oh how I worry and I would dearly like to know.
I've all this wonder of earthly plunder will it leave us anything to show.
And our time is flyin' see the candle burnin' low.
Is the new world rising, from the shambles of the old?

If we could just join hands ...

They're very substantial lyrics that hold a great deal of meaning. It's one of my favorite Zeppelin songs, and finally, I realize the import of its message. I appreciate the track even more because of that. And for your amusement, the opening line to the Zeppelin song, "Your Time is Gonna Come," which is a moniker we should attach to President Bush:

Lyin', cheatin', hurtin, that's all you seem to do.