Just Another Deja-vu in Paradise

Just Another Deja-vu in Paradise

©2020 David Moody

Today's events are nothing new

They're just another Deja-vu

But it's a lot more real when it happens to you

Right here

So just let 'em fight and shoot between themselves

Then get 'em to loot from all the shelves,

And burn their cities down 'cause nothing else will do

But fear

Fear is the enemy, but Faith is our shield

And our Love of Freedom are the weapons we wield

To wipe out the hatred, and save this great land

But some people will get hurt, so understand

It's not a game any more

When you don't know what to feel, then the deal gets real

Just remember what to think

as you balance on the brink

of insanity

When you know in your heart you were meant for the part

And you need to be humble,

but you always seem to stumble

on your vanity

Today's events are nothing new

It's just a lot more real when it happens to you

I guess it's just another Deja-vu in Paradise

KARMA TRAIN

©2020 David Moody

We reserved you a seat on the karma train.

So don't be late.

It's so long overdue, and it's important that you

don't make us wait...

any longer

They like the pomp and grandeur

They don't care about the land you're living in

The division, the derision...

Lord, this isn't my United States

The extortion, the divorce -

And I don't even know what's worse

or why they hate

Let's shut off the hatred.  Try learning to love

Pretend we're all one nation and we can be proud of

Never listen to poets, politicians, and fools

They were born to break your hearts, your backs, and your rules

You're in America

And you're on the karma train

If you didn't like what you saw,

You didn't have to remain

'Cause in America

And on the karma train

We'll drop you where you belong

Good luck, & stay insane!

In America

We all believe in love

I can't believe you came so far

just to push and shove

Your agenda

Down our throats

You feel "offended"

But Americans are "feelin' their oats" 

SOFA KING

©2018 David Moody

I'm working hard all the time

I come home tired every day

I never get those things I want

I'll never get to have my way

But I've got a friend back home

That makes me feel so fine

And while I'm slaving here at work

I think of where I love to lay

I want to be the sofa king

There's way too much on my mind

And way too much in my way

To get where I need to be

And throw my troubles all away

I want to be the sofa king

It would be sofa king cool - It would be sofa king fine

I'd be the king of my castle - leave the hassles behind

I could be sofa king - happy, stretched out on the divan

Totally oblivious to every problem known to man

I'm working hard all the time

I come home tired every night

So I can have the things I need

To make my life just right

And when I think of all the things

That make me want to say, "OUCH!"

I need some quality time

On my comfy couch

 I want to be sofa king

OUR AMERICA

©2016 David Moody

I have to laugh

And you will hear my laughter

It saves me from the fear of the aftermath

I have to cry

I feel my eyes start tearing

And I don't want to believe a single thing I'm hearing

My America

She'll never die

She is the very light that enters my eyes

My America

She is my heart

She was my soul from the very start

She was my America

Before the storm warnings we could see the danger

Even as it was forming we could not believe the anger

We can't afford to ignore another cloaked stranger

One single moment longer

Before that completely unlawful regime

The likes of which we've never seen

Before the unfolding of their heinous scheme

We were all so much stronger

She is OUR America

And we'll take her back

Don't even THINK we haven't been keeping track

And we saw them stab her right in the back

Again and again and again

She is OUR America

And we have come to understand

The less they deserve, the more they demand

And we know their attack was so carefully planned

But to the death we'll forever defend

Our America

American Dreaming

©2015 David Moody

Under these skies

Don’t be surprised

If things just don’t seem right

Open your eyes

And realize

That your freedom’s worth the fight

Dozens of lies

And acts of treason

Have finally taken their toll

Who will live to tell?

In these United States

Where life’s been great

We pay a man with no sense or reason

Hired an enemy fraud

Who thinks he’s God

Some still applaud his acts of treason

“That’s not who we are”

We are now paying our so-called “president”

To destroy our American dreams

We are all praying our so-called “president”

Will be TAKEN OUT of this scene

That’s all I’m saying – so catch my meaning

You’d better wake up

From your American Dreaming

If you want to survive

Heaven Knows I've Tried

©2014 David Moody

I’m going to start growing someone else’s hair

And nobody’s putting their fertilizer under there

If I never find out, then I just won’t care

Heaven knows

I’m pulling out the neurosis from this old garden

Planting seeds of faith ‘fore the ground is frozen, hard,

‘N tough to break and make it not worth startin’

Heaven knows

I’ve TRIED being quiet, but my spirit wouldn’t buy it

I’ve TRIED to tell the truth - like mama told me in my youth

When I didn’t listen

I’ve TRIED to hold my tongue, and not to come all unstrung

I’ve TRIED to ignore all the lovin’ and the fun

That I’d been missin’

But I won’t stop trying, and I’ll never be done

‘Cause there’s no denying - you’re the only one

Heaven knows

I’m going to start showing your reflection out there

To the unpatriotic and the unaware

If I forget my complexion, I think that’s fair

Heaven knows

My religion is getting to a whole new place

Like a pigeon that’s sitting on a statue’s face

To tolerate this intolerance is a total disgrace

Heaven knows 

III%er

©2014 David Moody

You hear sarcastic poetry

And right away you know it's me

Don't even have to turn around and look

You get a kind of half-way grin

We wonder where the hell we've been

And someday, one of us will write a book

There's no point even wishin'

I could be a great musician

But that doesn't mean I'll quit trying

I just want to live

And give it all I've got to give

Because I know someday might look down from the sky

and I'll wonder...

Let me be your mirror

You will see yourself much clearer

Just show me what you'd like to be shown

You can be my mentor

And I’ll be your III%er

We can’t let this crap go on the way it’s goin’

And, just so you know

You’ll reap everything you sow

See everything you show and there’s a place down below

And if that’s where I must go

I will only enter

as your faithful III%er

In America

©2014 David Moody

I do so long for such a sight to see

All Americans in the same fight to be free

From this intolerably immoral travesty

In America

I know what's wrong and what's right for me

We The People should be living in harmony

We fought too long and hard for this evil to be

In America

In America

Where we learned to fight for our freedom

In America

We all earned our rights, and we’ll keep ‘em

In America

Though we don’t all agree, we will fight for what’s right

For you and also for me

In America

You can always believe in what you want to

In America

You can love it or be leaving if you want to

In America

Like no other country, we will shine like a light

By which the whole world can see

I hear the plea for reason, and self-righteous politicians

I fear the seeds of treason have misguided our mission

Now here comes the end of the time for wishin’

In America

I know we have the strength to keep ourselves free

I know to what length we’ll go to make our homeland be

The prime example of why freedom is never free

In America

In America

Where we learned to fight for our freedom

In America

We all earned our rights, and we’ll keep ‘em

In America

Though we don’t all agree, we will fight for what’s right

For you and also for me

In America

You can always believe in what you want to

In America

You can love it or be leaving if you want to

In America

Like no other country, we will shine like a light

By which the world can see

We all need to be free

In America

God Bless America

©2014 David Moody

Dear LORD,
There was nothing wrong with our education system...
Until someone came along and tried to "force-fix" it.
School lunches fed our children fine...
Until someone came along and decided to nix it.

We had the strongest militia in the world
Until someone wanted to gut it
OUR White House was open to public tours
Until someone decided to shut it

We had freedom of speech and religion
And every right to defend ourselves
We had open information on 43 presidents
Now #44 locked it up, and hid it on the shelves

We had ONE NATION UNDER GOD
Our constitution and our Bill of Rights
Until someone LIED to get his job
And now we've got every reason to fight

We had a sovereign nation, strong and proud
And RESPECT at all our borders
Now the border patrol cannot speak aloud,
And will be arrested for following orders

We had people with content of character within
Now at each other's throats 'cause of the color of their skin
We need to bring Jesus back, and make him WELCOME here
America's gone to HELL, and it's a shame and a SIN

GOD BLESS AMERICA

We All Bleed Red

©2014 David Moody

Take the color of your skin and shove it
Shake off your hatred and your fear, and rise above it
Make your peace within, and learn to love it
That’s what I said

So put yourself in your victim’s shoes

Play a happy song when all you’ve got is the blues

Earn your pay, and pay your dues

Try to move ahead

I ain’t playing around

I got this damn thing down

I’m gonna paint this town with the

Sound of what I said

I ain’t your slave or your master

Ain’t like any other other bastard

Your disaster’s coming faster than you know

That’s what I said, and after all…

We all bleed red

I couldn't care less about the color of your skin

‘Cause all that really matters is the person within

If you came to steal what I rightly earned

You've got a big lesson to be learned

If you seek to pull my country apart

You never belonged here from very the start

You don’t have to believe a single word I said

But when it’s all over and done,

We all bleed red

You pushed us to the end of our rope

You promised change, and you promised hope

That was all lies, and the audacity of a dope

That we were fed

We’ve taken much more than we should take

We’ve wakin’ up mad from our own sad mistake

We’ve seen through your disguise – you’re a total fake

That’s what I said

When will you realize – we all bleed red