Occupy 'Movement' [UPDATE]
by stylus Friday, Nov 18 2011, 1:48am
international / social/political / commentary

'Occupy This’

An act of semiotic terrorism has been conducted on the lyrics of the popular song, "For What It's Worth," by Buffalo Springfield in order to send a clear message to the dreamboats that imagine change can be effected without DIRECT ACTION.

There's nothing happening here
What it is, is very clear
There's a man with a gun over there
Another telling me to beware

I think it's time we stop, took stock
And realise we have no agenda
Nothing going down

There's battle lines being drawn
But we’re ordered not to resist
I no longer know who is right
If everybody's wrong
Especially that COINTELPRO over there
And the agent sitting here

Young people speaking their minds
Getting so much resistance from each other

It's time we stop, hey, what's that sound?
Paranoia going down
The bong did it again

Everybody look, there’s Bankers over there
With an agenda and planned strategy to declare
We’re giving it to you in the arse
While you persist with your protest farce

What a field-day for the heat
A thousand passive sheep in the street
Singing songs and carrying signs
Beatin’ drums and having a grand kiddie time
Mostly saying, hooray for our aimless side

It's time we stop, hey, what's that sound?
Everybody look there’s nothing going down

Paranoia strikes deep
Into your life it will creep
It starts when you're always afraid
To announce and plan a raid

The man locks me away
When I dare to accuse the rogues
Liars, cheats and say
Their plan is ruining our lives and land
But our leaderless leaders say
You can’t declare anything today
So I say hooray for our side (?)
Though no one knows
What the fuck we stand for
But I know I can’t step over the line
And freely speak my mind

Agents and COINTELPRO
In our midst keep telling me
To be discreet, don’t step out of line
The man gets you every time
He will come and take you away

We better stop, hey, what's that sound?
Everybody look it’s another bong going around

Everybody stop, there’s something not right
We’re here and instructed not to fight
By the COINTELPRO over there
And that man telling me to beware.


[My apologies, Buffalo Springfield, I really love your song, so I’ve attached the original in good faith.]