The Tale Behind The Tune … Catastrophe (What Were You Thinking?)

Catastrophe

Keep your head down … run for cover
Big trouble on the way
The blond buffoon is in the saddle
And we’re all gonna pay

Batten down all the hatches
Stay deep within your hole
Democracy is on the table
Now out of our control

Bob Dylan once sang out
Hard rain’s a gonna fall
Well this may be the hardest rain of all

Damn Yankees blew it badly
When passing on the reins
Those Yankee Doodles may be dandy
Just a little short on brains

Goodbye Nato and the EPA
Watch them swagger as they flaunt.
Because make America great again
Means lettin’ them do whatever they want

Bob Dylan once cried out ….

Catastrophe … what were you thinkin
Catastrophe … my heart is sinkin’
Catastrophe … for you and me

So long fairness … decency
All hope flushed down the drain
What we have here is a land of crazies
Being led by the insane

There’s a bull in the china shop
Carryin’ a heavy load
With a tendency to fly off the handle
And with access to the nuclear codes

Bob Dylan once warned us …

Catastrophe … what were you thinkin’
Catastrophe … my heart is sinkin’
Catastrophe … for humanity

Written by Bob Burrows … November 12, 2016
Published by Out Of The Wilderness … all rights reserved

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The United States of America has just voted their self-declared greatest democracy in the world out of existence … and they can’t say they didn’t know what they were doing … it was obvious!
They have chosen to endorse vulgarity, ignorance, hatred, division, utter stupidity & intolerance.
They have also done that deliberately with eyes wide open, fully aware of the consequences.
With serious warnings from many people who worked for Trump and many other Republicans!
As a result they’ve earned and fully deserve all of the outcomes that’ll flow from their decision.
Unfortunately the Ukranians, the Palestinians … and all the rest of us … do not deserve them!
Trump’s election is also likely the end of any serious effort to address climate change at all.
Because he and his followers regard that problem, the most serious issue of our time, as a hoax.
And when the USA … the world’s biggest economy … withdraws from the Paris Accord again and stops making any effort to decrease burning fossil fuels, so will China and everyone else.
Making Trump’s election literally a threat to all life on Earth, putting aside nuclear weapons.
And all the best to everyone RE health care in America with Robert Kennedy Jr. in charge!
They will never get Donald Trump out of the White House again regardless of The Constitution.
He and his followers will create a “crisis” towards the end of his “term”, then using the precedent of FDR and WW2, will say they can’t conduct an election in the midst of their “emergency”.
And given what we have seen over the past few years, the GOP will support that completely.
So democracy is done in the USA … the coup is in motion and will soon be a fait complete.
And without any exaggeration, we are all about to descend into Hell on Earth.
As it says in the song … Batten down all the hatches, stay deep within your hole.
Democracy is on the table … now out of our control!

And here’s the other song we recorded in 2017 to bring attention to Trump’s first election.
Our version of Bob Dylan’s great classic from his early days … A Hard Rain’s A Gonna Fall.
Many of the images and metaphors in the lyric seem to have merit with regard to this situation.

Regretfully yours ~ Bob Burrows