drspecial

This song/video is a little manifesto. Sort of. It doesn't declare how things should be, just how they are. Or were, if we're lucky. Or smart?
And that, my friends, is a little backwards.
Politically, the spark was Dick Cheney's declaration that conservation is not a legitimate energy policy. We know what his energy policy was, despite the secret meetings. Since his hands are bloodied with oil, Cheney's vision is contrasted with images of more renewable sources. There's a shot of Jimmy Carter -- no, he's not part of the problem.He tried to improve things, but his efforts were undone. In his image that briefly appears, Carter stands in front of a bunch of solar panels. Immediately after, the video shows  Dick Cheney and everyone's buddy, Donald Rumsfeld. (Carter actually installed solar panels on the roof of the White House, which Reagan removed.)
This song was written during the Bush years, reflecting that feeling that even though time is moving forward, our country is moving backward.
So the images often match the lyrics, in an attempt to clarify my message. In other places it's more confusing, but that mish-mash also supports the overall theme. While a political song, it also expresses personal desperation. I am subject to the actions of politicians and their string-holders, the corporate milkman/fathers who dictate policy. And taken us where?

POST-POST MODERN MAN
Words and music by Billy Dechand
© 2006 Bucktooth Music (ASCAP)

I figured it out – up is down                
What once was old is young again now            
I’m a physical man in a spiritual world            
A modern man in a post-modern world             

I’m a post-post modernist man            
In a post-post-post-modernist world            
I’m a post-post-post-modernist man
In a post-post-post-post-modernist world

That is one heck of a gain                    
One whale of an oil stain                    

Here comes that coal train!
Over and over .. and over again

A mechanical man in an electrical world
I’m a space age man in a digital world
A windblown man in a static world
I’m a solar-powered man in a nuclear world

I’m a post-post modernist man            
In a post-post-post-modernist world            
I’m a post-post-post-modernist man
In a post-post-post-post-modernist world

From the album POST, © 2010
available on iTunes, Android Music, etc.