Like Joseph Stalin and Gandhi You most likely know the usual lyrics for current ceremony. Here's the original full versions lyric https://amhistory.si.edu/starspangledbanner/pdf/ssb_lyrics.pdf Complete version of "The Star-Spangled Banner" showing spelling and punctuation O say can you see, by the dawn's early light, And the rocket's red glare, the bomb bursting in air, On the shore dimly seen through the mists of the deep Now it catches the gleam of the morning's first beam, And where is that band who so vauntingly swore, No refuge could save the hireling and slave O thus be it ever when freemen shall stand Then conquer we must, when our cause it is just, ... And many thanks for the masters in skill for setting our standard of work to instill.
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on March 22, 2026, 1:48 am, in reply to "Let's Compare..; Socialism, Fascism, Capitalism, Communism"
Regarding the topic mentioned.
I've had a couple things come to mind frequently for a while.
Sometimes music is timeless and repetitious. And says it better than I can.
In more recent history I submit this political? message?
Cult of Personality
by Living Colour
Here are Lyrics if you don't want to listen to what some may think of as noise.
It is Noise with a purpose.
Spoken Intro:
And during the few moments that we have left
We want to talk right down to earth
In a language that everybody here can easily understand
Music Begins:
Look in my eyes
What do you see?
The cult of personality
I know your anger, I know your dreams
I've been everything you want to be
Oh, I'm the cult of personality
Like Mussolini and Kennedy
I'm the cult of personality
The cult of personality
The cult of personality
Neon lights, a Nobel prize
When a mirror speaks, the reflection lies
You won't have to follow me
Only you can set me free
I sell the things you need to be
I'm the smiling face on your TV
Oh, I'm the cult of personality
I exploit you, still you love me
I tell you, one and one makes three
Oh, I'm the cult of personality
I'm the cult of personality
The cult of personality
The cult of personality
Neon lights, a Nobel prize
When a leader speaks, that leader dies
You won't have to follow me
Only you can set you free
You gave me fortune, you gave me fame
You gave me power in your god's name
I'm every person you need to be
Oh, I'm the cult of personality
I am the cult of, I am the cult of
I am the cult of, I am the cult of
I am the cult of, I am the cult of
I am the cult of, I am the cult of personality
Ask not what your country can do for you
The only thing we have to fear, is fear itself
END
Related also to recent topics
I also would like to submit
Jimi Hendrix and his Noise at Woodstock
from Francis Scott Key's manuscript in the Maryland Historical Society collection.
What so proudly we hail'd at the twilight's last gleaming,
Whose broad stripes and bright stars through the perilous fight
O'er the ramparts we watch'd were so gallantly streaming?
Gave proof through the night that our flag was still there,
O say does that star-spangled banner yet wave
O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave?
Where the foe's haughty host in dread silence reposes,
What is that which the breeze, o'er the towering steep,
As it fitfully blows, half conceals, half discloses?
In full glory reflected now shines in the stream,
'Tis the star-spangled banner - O long may it wave
O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave!
That the havoc of war and the battle's confusion
A home and a Country should leave us no more?
Their blood has wash'd out their foul footstep's pollution.
From the terror of flight or the gloom of the grave,
And the star-spangled banner in triumph doth wave
O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave.
Between their lov'd home and the war's desolation!
Blest with vict'ry and peace may the heav'n rescued land
Praise the power that hath made and preserv'd us a nation!
And this be our motto - "In God is our trust,"
And the star-spangled banner in triumph shall wave
O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave.
A Jack of all trades is master of none, but oftentimes better than a master of one.![]()



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