[Old School Hound]

"Wind of Change"  was actually released in '90 just after the fall of the Berlin Wall but I still associate it with the eighties and Reagan and Gorbachev and all that led up to the bringing down of the wall.  



Speaking of songs and walls & politics  ,  are we all just bricks in the  wall?

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One of the best songs a lot of people have never heard. The song is about the killing of Matthew Shephard, a 21 y.o. gay student, who was beaten and tied to a fence post  and left to die near Laramie, WY in 1998.  Currently,  47 states and the District of Columbia have statutes criminalizing various types of bias-motivated violence or intimidation . Unfortunately, Wyoming is not one of them.








Seen him playing in his backyard
Young boy just starting out
So much history in this landscape
So much confusion, so much doubt
Been there drinking on that front porch
Angry kids, mean and dumb
Looks like a painting, that blue skyline
God hates fags where we come from

'Western skies' don't make it right
'Home of the brave' don't make no sense
I've seen a scarecrow wrapped in wire
Left to die on a high ridge fence
It's a cold, cold wind
It's a cold, cold wind
It's a cold wind blowing, Wyoming

See two coyotes run down a deer
Hate what we don't understand
You pioneers give us your children
But it's your blood that stains their hands

Somewhere that road forks up ahead
To ignorance and innocence
Three lives drift on different winds
Two lives ruined, one life spent