the same old song

‘Pick a little, talk a little, pick a little, talk a little,
cheep, cheep, cheep, talk a lot, pick a little more’. (“Pick a Little”-The Music Man-Meredith Wilson)

Blah, blah, Tucson, Blah, blah, murder, Blah, blah innocent, Blah, blah what is next, Blah, blah remember when, Blah, blah moment of silence, Blah, blah must stop. Blah, blah we spoke enough who needs action.

‘The beat goes on, the beat goes on
Drums keep pounding a rhythm to the brain’
La de da de de, la de da de da’ ( ‘The beat Goes On Sonny and Cher)

It is the rights fault; it’s the left’s fault for accusing the right. We need bipartisan politics and you had better be the side that starts doing just that. It happened in our history before and was not taken out of context then why start now? We must come together, begin again. And if for the hundredth time if it doesn’t take hold lets try it again. We need a commission to study this.

‘I started a joke. Which started the whole world crying.

Oh but I didn’t see that the joke was on me…oh…no’ (‘I Started a Joke’ Brothers Giibb)

It was never meant to be cross hairs on a map and besides any SANE person would know I didn’t mean to really go out and kill a Congress person. Yeah, it is our God given right and that also in the Constitution to carry a gun, even at a political rally; you never know when the Government will control us. We really never meant that if the ballot doesn’t work use a bullet, and if we did this IS America and we have the right to free speech.

‘Now it's the same old song
But with a different meaning
Since you been gone
It's the same old song
But with a different meaning
Since you been gone’ (Same Old Song-Four Tops)

After all the ringing of the hands, the dramatic music, the deep but solemn voiced announcer, the showing of the flags at half mast, the 80^th recollection of the terrible, horrible, unacceptable, murder, killing spree in Tucson, after all of that we are just as divided and derelict in discussing what really happened. After shock and awe we are still denying that we have a problem in this country. After all of that, we are told that all of us are responsible when in fact that not all of us are responsible, yet many of us are. After all of that we ignore that what happened NOW has happened BEFORE and when it happened BEFORE we acted then as we acted NOW, claiming the sky is falling and someone else caused it to break apart. And after all of that nothing then had been solved and so far nothing constructive but blame, denial, accusations have been uttered and ownership is left hiding in some safe deposit box and no one has the key.

Words have little meaning if they are said after an action--- caused by them--- takes place, and new words have not been found to stop that action from EVER taking place again. How amazing, an action has taken place and all we find are words accusatory and incendiary but never healing or remedial. How inane and insane to refuse the reality of the situation and sugarcoat it in slurpy sticky gooey words hoping they will stick to someone else but you, me, us.

As has been the case in this country, if the wrong words are not replaced with the right words history will repeat and repeat and repeat itself. Why is it ONLY words to the same old song?