Right Here, Right Now (Jesus Jones)

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A woman on the radio talks about revolution

when it’s already passed her by

but Bob Dylan didn’t have this to sing about you

you know it feels good to be alive

I was alive and I waited waited

I was alive and I waited for this

Right here, right now, there is no other place I want to be

Right here, right now, watching the world wake up from history

I saw the decade in, when it seemed

the world could change at the blink of an eye

And if anything

then there’s your sign of the times

I was alive and I waited waited

I was alive and I waited for this

Right here, right now

I was alive and I waited waited

I was alive and I waited for this

Right here, right now, there is no other place I want to be

Right here, right now, watching the world wake up from history

Right here, right now, there is no other place I want to be

Right here, right now, watching the world wake up from history

Right here, right now, there is no other place I want to be

Right here, right now, watching the world wake up

This has always been one of my favorite songs from the early 90’s.  It’s a song inspired by the liberation of Eastern Europe from Communism and Oppression.

It has even more power if you can see the original video for the song (which I am still searching for - YouTube has mysteriously removed it).

The idea that Hilary Clinton, a left wing politician if there ever was one, would consider this song for her campaign theme song is disrespectful to those that fought, and died, for freedom from her political brothers and sisters.

Todd Seavey at NRO Online has a much more eloquent take on this:

There is no shortage of left-wing bands Hillary could have picked. Why not the Clash, who may be the cleverest musical propagandists of all time? Why not Bob Dylan or Tracy Chapman, who are both mentioned disparagingly in the Jesus Jones song (Dylan by name, Chapman as that “woman on the radio [who] talked about revolution when it’s already passed her by”). How about the covertly Marxist yet thoroughly fluffy Top 40 band Scritti Politti, who sang “[I’ve got a] Perfect Way” — and who probably do think that one perfect, centralized health care plan is exactly the way to go? Why not use that pro-wealth-distribution song “Hunger Strike” that Chris Cornell and Eddie Vedder sang back in the ’90s?

The Left has so many rock’n’ roll songs to choose from, it’s a crime to take one of the few that belongs to the Right — to the extent that it is not simply the treasured inheritance of free people everywhere.