Maybe it's something lacking in the music of today that makes everyone so complacent. This is a song that represents an era when people seemed to think freedom was a priority worth putting time into preserving . I saw Paul Kantner perform 10 years ago .I walk up to the stage in the small Carefree theatre and asked him to play an old time favorite.

He said , " I have a better one you'll like .It was a highly political song about the disillusions of the American Dream. Paul is still a political activist throught the lyrics of his songs.His old band " The Jefferson Airplane " has been under FBI surveillance since the mid 1960's.

"War Movie" (1971), "Bark". 4:41 (Lyrics and Music: Paul Kantner) Download text In nineteen hundred and seventy-five all the people rose from the countryside to move against you government man d'you understand locked together hand in hand all thru this unsteady land - gonna

roll roll roll the rock around roll roll roll the rock around lift the rock out of the ground

at the Battle of Forever Plains all my people hand in hand in hand in the rain the laser way won the day without one single living soul going down the government troops were circled in the sun gun found themselves on the run . . . from our nation the rock is raised no need to hide from the other side now . . . . . . . . . transformation

call high to the constellation headquarters call high to the most high directors send out the transporting systems and send the sun finders

thirteen battalion of mind raiders three hundred master computer killers from great platforms in the mountains twenty mile laser & great giant trackers . . . twenty miles south now

in 1975 all my people rose from the countryside until we meet again and touch our hands together in another land until we meet again & see each others mind we three have met again and touched our hands talking of Napoleon in the garden we will muffle the drums tomorrow mornin gonna roll roll roll the rock around gonna roll roll roll the rock around lift the rock out of the ground

-- Max (MaxT@yoohoo.com), November 25, 2002

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" We free the people with music " BOB Marley

-- Max (MaxT@yoohoo.com), November 25, 2002.