{"id":1468,"date":"2007-03-16T08:52:31","date_gmt":"2007-03-16T12:52:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cleek.lunarpages.com\/blogs\/?p=1468"},"modified":"2007-03-16T08:52:31","modified_gmt":"2007-03-16T12:52:31","slug":"armageddon-days","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/?p=1468","title":{"rendered":"Armageddon Days &#038; The Listening Wind"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This song was a favorite of mine way back in '88. It's amazing how many times I've found a reason to sing it to myself in the past 5 years.<\/p>\n<ul>\nThey're 5 miles high<br \/>\nAs the crow flies<br \/>\nLeavin' vapour trails<br \/>\nAcross a blood red sky<br \/>\nMovin' in from the East<br \/>\nTowards the West<br \/>\nWith balaclava helmets<br \/>\nOver their heads<br \/>\nYES!<\/p>\n<p>But if you think that Jesus Christ is coming<br \/>\nHoney, you've got another thing coming<br \/>\nIf he ever finds out who's hijacked his name<br \/>\nHe'll cut out his heart and turn in his grave<\/p>\n<p>Islam is rising<br \/>\nThe Christians mobilising<br \/>\nThe world is on it's elbows and knees<br \/>\nIt's forgotten the message<br \/>\nAnd worships the creeds<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153It's War\u00e2\u20ac\u009d she cried<br \/>\n\u00e2\u20ac\u0153It's War\u00e2\u20ac\u009d she cried<br \/>\n\u00e2\u20ac\u0153This is War!\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<br \/>\nDrop your possessions<br \/>\nAll you simple folk<br \/>\nYou will fight them on the beaches<br \/>\nin your underclothes<br \/>\nYou will thank the good lord<br \/>\nFor raising the Union Jack<br \/>\nYou'll watch the ships sail out of harbour<br \/>\nAnd the bodies come floating back<br \/>\nWatch the ships sail out of harbour<br \/>\nAnd the bodies come floating back<\/p>\n<p>If the real Jesus Christ were to stand up today<br \/>\nHe'd be gunned down cold by the C.I.A.<br \/>\nOh, the lights that now burn brightest<br \/>\nBehind stained glass<br \/>\nWill cast the darkest shadows<br \/>\nUpon the human heart<br \/>\nBut God didn't build himself that throne<br \/>\nGod doesn't live in Israel or Rome<br \/>\nGod doesn't belong to the Yankee dollar<br \/>\nGod doesn't plant the bombs for Hezbollah<br \/>\nGod doesn't even go to church<br \/>\nAnd God won't send us down to Allah to burn<br \/>\nGod will remind us what we already know<br \/>\nThat the human race is about to reap what it's sown<\/p>\n<p>Islam is rising<br \/>\nThe Christians mobilising<br \/>\nThe world is on it's elbows and knees<br \/>\nIt's forgotten the message<br \/>\nAnd worships the creeds<br \/>\nThe world is on it's elbows and knees<br \/>\nIt's forgotten the message<br \/>\nAnd worships the creeds<\/p>\n<p>Armageddon days are here again<br \/>\nArmageddon days are here again<br \/>\nArmageddon days are here again<br \/>\nArmageddon Days Are HERE!!! <\/p>\n<p>-The The , Armageddon Days Are Here, Again\n<\/ul>\n<p>So, that's cheery. But even before that, there was this classic from 1980:<\/p>\n<ul>\nMojique sees his village from a nearby hill<br \/>\nMojique thinks of days before Americans came<br \/>\nHe sees the foreigners in growing numbers<br \/>\nHe sees the foreigners in fancy houses<br \/>\nHe thinks of days that he can still remember...now.<\/p>\n<p>Mojique holds a package in his quivering hands<br \/>\nMojique sends the package to the American man<br \/>\nSoftly he glides along the streets and alleys<br \/>\nUp comes the wind that makes them run for cover<br \/>\nHe feels the time is surely now or never...more.<\/p>\n<p>The wind in my heart<br \/>\nThe wind in my heart<br \/>\nThe dust in my head<br \/>\nThe dust in my head<br \/>\nThe wind in my heart<br \/>\nThe wind in my heart<br \/>\n(come to) drive them away<br \/>\nDrive them away<\/p>\n<p>Mojique buys equipment in the market place<br \/>\nMojique plants devices in the free trade zone<br \/>\nHe feels the wind is lifting up his people<br \/>\nHe calls the wind to guide him on his mission<br \/>\nHe knows his friend the wind is always standing...by.<\/p>\n<p>Mojique smells the wind that comes from far away<br \/>\nMojique waits for news in a quiet place<br \/>\nHe feels the presence of the wind around him<br \/>\nHe feels the power of the past behind him<br \/>\nHe has the knowledge of the wind to guide him...on.<\/p>\n<p>The wind in my heart<br \/>\nThe wind in my heart<br \/>\nThe dust in my head<br \/>\nThe dust in my head<br \/>\nThe wind in my heart<br \/>\nThe wind in my heart<br \/>\n(come to) drive them away<br \/>\nDrive them away.<\/p>\n<p>-- Talking Heads, The Listening Wind\n<\/ul>\n<p>Good times.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This song was a favorite of mine way back in '88. It's amazing how many times I've found a reason to sing it to myself in the past 5 years. They're 5 miles high As the crow flies Leavin' vapour trails Across a blood red sky Movin' in from the East Towards the West With [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1468","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1468","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1468"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1468\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1468"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1468"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1468"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}