ThijsDaar was ineens, afgelopen dinsdag een nieuwe plaat van de Drive-By Truckers. ‘The Perilous Night’ is een aanklacht tegen het huidige politieke klimaat in de States. De Truckers borduren met dit nummer voort op waar ze op de plaat ‘American Band’ waren gebleven. En dat vind ik mooi! Eigenlijk is het nummer een samenvatting van een jaar Donald Trump als President van de Verenigde Staten van Amerika.
We needed warming from the cold hard facts
Unheeded warnings bout the broken tracks
All hope is fading and it’s not coming back again
Uniting forces may be calling fast
Changing courses to some Stalin past
Melting faces through the looking glass, my friend
Something’s got a hold of our feel alright
Out of control in the appetite
We’re moving into the perilous night, Amen
Amen
Dumb, white and angry with their cup half filled
Running over people down in Charlottesville
White House Fury, it’s the killing side, he defends
Defend the up-ender, yes he played that tune
Is ain’t the ending but it’s coming soon
We’re making love beneath a sputnik moon again
White House is glowing from the Red Square light
The gates at the border being slammed down tight
We’re moving into the perilous night, my friend
Something’s got a hold of our feel alright
Out of control in the appetite
We’re moving into the perilous night, Amen
Amen
And why’s that drone looking through my window?
World keeps turning in the torch light shadow
Fourth Reich in khakis is beckoning
Both ends burning to the reckoning
Ronnie Reagan must be spinning his grave
Putin’s on the rise, Ukraine’s under siege
Fascism’s knocking and Trump says “Let them in”
I’d like to tell you there’ll be better days
But optimism’s running low today
We’re off the deep end with a lifeguard that can’t swim
The Klan and the Nazis are taking up the fight
Against their own salvation in the saviors light
We’re moving into the perilous night, Amen
Flags of oppression are blocking out the light
Dismantling The Greatest Generation’s fight
We’re moving into the perilous night, Amen
Amen
Amen
