Big Science
Recently picked up Laurie Anderson's seminal album Big Science on CD, and "O Superman" just came on iTunes. I've been very lax in providing political commentary in this space lately, so just a little taste, though the lyrics work even less well without music than for most songs:
This is the hand,
the hand that takes.
Here come the planes.
They're American planes. Made in America.
Smoking or non-smoking?
And the voice said:
Neither snow nor rain
nor gloom of night
shall stay these couriers
from the swift completion
of their appointed rounds.
'Cause when love is gone, there's always justice.
And when justice is gone, there's always force.
An unusually overtly political song from Anderson; she had other songs in that period with dystopic views of technology, but not usually so directly connected to geopolitics.