This song should be our National Anthem

[Joey Liberal]

Run time: 05:14
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OuEWBlChry4


Or at least the DU Anthem:)...........

[HuskerDU]

1. I always have a kick for Iris Dement.

Before I hooked up with my gf, I made no secret that IMO Iris Dement is the most desirable woman in the world. Not sexiest or prettiest but the most desirable. She is married now to singer/songwriter Greg Brown.

Can you believe that song is actually over 12 years old? Never been more spot on than right now though.

[Joey Liberal]

2. Wow!

I had never heard of her until yesterday. I do think she's hot. The fact that the song is 12 years old freaks me out too. It is so appropriate for today.

[HuskerDU]

3. Her brains, sassy voice and downhome charm just turn me into

a big pile of goo! I'm more of a rock-n-roller, but IMO Iris has been the best current act in music for over a decade. 'Wasteland of the Free' is just one example of her powerful songwriting.

I'm glad you discovered Iris Joey. Cheers!

[Joey Liberal]

4. I'm a Rocker to the bone.........

But I love Iris. That voice just kills me.

[hippywife]

5. I knew what it was

before I even clicked on it. I love that song. Wish it weren't so damn true, tho.

[HuskerDU]

6. Catch her while you can. Iris doesn't play many shows, but she

has some tour dates over the next few months. Some shows are with the fantastic John Prine. Don't miss it!

[Tuesday Afternoon]

7. adding lyrics:

Living in the wasteland of the free...

We got preachers dealing in politics and diamond mines
and their speech is growing increasingly unkind
They say they are Christ's disciples
but they don't look like Jesus to me
and it feels like I am living in the wasteland of the free

We got politicians running races on corporate cash
Now don't tell me they don't turn around and kiss them peoples' ass
You may call me old-fashioned
but that don't fit my picture of a true democracy
and it feels like I am living in the wasteland of the free

We got CEO's making two hundred times the workers' pay
but they'll fight like hell against raising the minimum wage
and If you don't like it, mister, they'll ship your job
to some third-world country 'cross the sea
and it feels like I am living in the wasteland of the free

Living in the wasteland of the free
where the poor have now become the enemy
Let's blame our troubles on the weak ones
Sounds like some kind of Hitler remedy
Living in the wasteland of the free

We got little kids with guns fighting inner city wars
So what do we do, we put these little kids behind prison doors
and we call ourselves the advanced civilization
that sounds like crap to me
and it feels like I am living in the wasteland of the free

We got high-school kids running 'round in Calvin Klein and Guess
who cannot pass a sixth-grade reading test
but if you ask them, they can tell you
the name of every crotch on MTV
and it feels like I am living in the wasteland of the free

We kill for oil, then we throw a party when we win
Some guy refuses to fight, and we call that the sin
but he's standing up for what he believes in
and that seems pretty damned American to me
and it feels like I am living in the wasteland of the free

Living in the wasteland of the free
where the poor have now become the enemy
Let's blame our troubles on the weak ones
Sounds like some kind of Hitler remedy
Living in the wasteland of the free

While we sit gloating in our greatness
justice is sinking to the bottom of the sea
Living in the wasteland of the free
Living in the wasteland of the free
Living in the wasteland of the free

[Initech]

8. Personally, this is my choice for our new national anthem:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ir79nxLaKnk

Some say it was a warning
Some say it was a sign
I was standing right there
When it came down from the sky
The way it spoke to us
We felt it from inside
Said it was up to us
Up to us to decide

You've become a virus
That's eating up its host
We've been watching you with all of our eyes
nd what you seem to value most
So much potential, or so we used to say
Your greed, self-importance and your arrogance
You piss it all away

We heard a cry
We've come to intervene
You will change your ways
And you will make amends
Or we will wipe this place clean

Your time is tick-tick-ticking away