Fanatics have managed to frame the abortion debate
so it feels the only option is choosing which side to take.
The result? Suffering, death, and a cultural divide
with everyone feeling pressured to take a side.
When self-righteousness and hate have sway,
the truth, it seems, just gets in the way.
The irony is both extremes are wrong,
it’s the middle way that’s been right all along.
But before we can hope to be reconciled,
we must first agree on what makes a child.
......
(3-line blues)
<intro>
I got the “ain’t no more common sense, ain’t no more common sense” blues.
I got the “ain’t no more, gone forever, no more common sense” blues.
Kids piercin’ tongues are common events;
don’t know what happened to common sense.
High-priced jeans on drugstore rack, blue jeans from some ragman’s sack,
Ripped in the knees, bleached in the back.
Torn jeans and swim suits with holes in the knees.
......
(3-line blues)
<intro>
I got the “ain’t no more common sense, ain’t no more common sense” blues.
I got the “ain’t no more, gone forever, no more common sense” blues.
Kids piercin’ tongues are common events;
don’t know what happened to common sense.
High-priced jeans on drugstore rack, blue jeans from some ragman’s sack,
Ripped in the knees, bleached in the back.
Torn jeans and swim suits with holes in the knees.
......
Fanatics have managed to frame the abortion debate
so it feels the only option is choosing which side to take.
The result? Suffering, death, and a cultural divide
with everyone feeling pressured to take a side.
When self-righteousness and hate have sway,
the truth, it seems, just gets in the way.
The irony is both extremes are wrong,
it’s the middle way that’s been right all along.
But before we can hope to be reconciled,
we must first agree on what makes a child.
......