mike grutka: Listen
Wake Up
(mike grutka)
2004-02-01
Michael D Grutka
I was writing a new album in the fall of 2002 and played in Alexandria Va. I had a couple gigs and was camped out in my tent reading "The Pentagon Papers" which was about how we got involved in Vietnam. It really struck me how many names were currently in our government and the blatent secrecy they needed to have war-the deception, mis information and lying to the public. Also i was saddened that they had all the information on how to win and repeatedly gave less in every way to the troops.
I had the music left over from my first CD and the words came out stream of conciousness in 3 takes.
five months later, we were voting to use force in Iraq to go get all those nasty WMD's.
Things don't change.
Thus Wake Up!!!