Young Americans - David Bowie / Lyrics

They pulled in just behind the fridge
He lays her down, he frowns
Gee my life's a funny thing, am I still too young?
He kissed her then and there
She took his ring, took his babies
It took him minutes, took her nowhere
Heaven knows, shed have taken anything, but

All night
She wants the young American
Young American, young American, she wants the young American
All right
She wants the young American

Scanning life through the picture windows
She finds the slinky vagabond
He coughs as he passes her Ford mustang, but
Heaven forbid, she'll take anything
But the freak, and his type, all for nothing
He misses a step and cuts his hand, but
Showing nothing, he swoops like a song
She cries where have all papa's heroes gone?

All night
She wants the young American
Young American, young American, she wants the young American
All right
She wants the young American

All the way from Washington
Her bread-winner begs off the bathroom floor
We live for just these twenty years
Do we have to die for the fifty more?

All night
He wants the young American
Young American, young American, he wants the young American
All right
He wants the young American

Do you remember, your president Nixon?
Do you remember, the bills you have to pay
Or even yesterday

Have you been an un-American?
Just you and your idol singing falsetto bout
Leather, leather everywhere, and
Not a myth left from the ghetto
Well, well, well, would you carry a razor
In case, just in case of depression
Sit on your hands on a bus of survivors
Blushing at all the afro-sheilas
Aint that close to love?
Well, aint that poster love?
Well, it aint that barbie doll
Her heart's been broken just like you have

And
All night
You want the young American
Young American, young American, you want the young American
All right
You want the young American

You aint a pimp and you ain't a hustler
A pimps got a Cadi and a lady got a Chrysler
Blacks got respect, and whites got his soul train
Mamas got cramps, and look at your hands ache
I heard the news today, oh boy
I got a suite and you got defeat
Ain't there a man you can say no more?
And, ain't there a woman I can sock on the jaw?
And, aint there a child I can hold without judging?
Ain't there a pen that will write before they die?
Ain't you proud that you've still got faces?
Ain't there one damn song that can make me
Break down and cry?

All night
I want the young American
Young American, young American, I want the young American
All right
I want the young American
Young American
Young American, young American, I want the young American
(I want with you, I want with you want)
All right
(you want it, I want you you, you want I, I want you want)
Young American, young American, I want the young American (I want to want, to want, to want , to want I, I want you)
All right
(Lord I wanted the young American)
(young American)
Young American, young American
I want the young American
Mmmmmm mmm

Oh cry me a river of Iraqi blood.

Am so tired of this nonsense that the US military forces are great and we should cheer them as they bomb, shoot and house search through their way to democracy in Iraq. The use of military force should reflect a failure of all other means, but that was not the case in Iraq, its a cowboy misadventure paid by the lives of Iraqi civilians and US force casualties.

Yes individually the US military is comprised of sons, daughters, mothers and fathers and am sure most of them are great humans beings (even though a minority has committed war crimes) and I would love to have beer with them. But ultimately they are an apparatus of death being a military force, representing an occupational force in Iraq. Thoughts of democracy, bringing peace, playing with Iraqis flies out the window the moment someone starts shooting at you, the military is composed of individuals who serve but one purpose at the end of the date. Force elimination.

If you were ordered to fire your howitzer at a Fallujah because terrorists were hauled up in there, would you stop and think about civilian casualties? Or would you just fix deflection and firing quadrant and shoot? Shrapnel doesn't differentiate between civilians and enemy combatants. Your statement about no collateral damage flies in the face of those killed through artillery bombardment, air force strikes and those who get killed through suicide bombers that were not there before the war.

The criticism is not leveled at the troops here, but at the commander in chief who decides to send them into a war zone with a false premise, unprepared for post invasion reconciliation and inadequately trained for basically being a occupational force. You've been handed a political reconciliation (WMD prior to that) mission that has no real way of being won through military means, and your paying for it in blood of young Americans and Iraqis.

QM: Too long the mantra of "get over it" has worn too thin.

Get over a proven stolen election (which one?)..
Get over the massive corporate coagulation that has been allowed (AT&T, etc)
Get over the thousands of dead young Americans
Get over the tens of thousands of maimed and traumatized young soldiers
Get over the hundreds of thousands of dead innocent Iraqi civilians
Get over the 250,000 rounds of ammo used for EVERY insurgent killed in Iraq
Get over the millions of Iraqis who had to abandon their ancestral homes
Get over the hundreds of millions of dollars stolen by war contractors and oil men
Get over the billions of dollars of US Treasury wasted in the desert sands
Get over the priceless value of our liberties and Constitutional rights trampled upon by this gang of thieves and liars

Wow.. the Bush administration is turning an entire generation of young Americans against the corrupt GOP. Too bad.

According to Dumbo: "We now have spent $400 billion and have seen over 3,000 lives of the bravest young Americans wasted.

"Wasted." Like a vote for any victicrat.

Not the best translation, but I'll give it anyway (in parenthesis are the things I'm unsure if they are correctly translated)

From the heights of the Canadian mountains,Valerius (G...?) observed the hitting on the legs of a male ram similar the female cobo (I guess it refers to ram). He wrote:
"To conceive this magnificent creatures were homosexual was too much for me, but I finally decided to call it by its name and admit the the rams live in a homosexual society...But while the majority of female cogo also mate with males,a
lot of young ram or of lower status, have to wait and mature sexually before having heterosexual experiences"

The young American Bison also reveals homosexual behavior, sometimes for more than 5 years...Normally after a period of fighting, they mount one another. The adult Bisons do not let the young to mate with females; that is why their behavior is interpreted as a sexual frustration (incorrectly used). Some studies separated the adult males and even when there where plenty of females available the males continued to have homosexual relationships.

Most of these first interpretations had a thing in common; whether they served as a practice or to arouse the opposite sex, the animals with homosexual behavior have a unique intention, to improve their possibilities in the future reproductive sex.

Then in a forest of Central Africa, a group of monkeys appeared that forced the scientists to reconsider the purpose/intention of any kind of sex.
(The first pair of monkeys that keep looking at each other are male and female)
But the Primatologist Frans (D...?)states, "The Bonobos will have sexual relationships with males and females, old, and young while eating, playing or carrying their young. And have relations frequently, sometimes for the entire day"

The sexual behavior of the Bonobo is the more flexible that we know of (leaving out the human race), I tend to define them as pansexuals; I cannot say they are homosexuals because they do not have an exclusive orientation to one gender or the other. They use sex in all the individual combinations, they feel free to do so.

The females only have offspring every 6 years, but have sexual relations whether they are in heat or not, and even when they are pregnant or are breast-feeding their young. Even the young have sexual relationships face to face. The Bonobo is one of the few species that discards the common scientific assumption that animal sex is united only to reproduction.

There is a theory that pretends to give sex a social purpose by relating it with dominant behavior. (@ minute 3:00) A male of higher status establishes dominance to a much younger male. But this theory does not seem to apply completely to the Bonobos, because the young as well as members of inferior status also tend to mount the elder members; Sex in this cases appears to be reciprocal.

Why do Bonobos waste so much energy trying to have sex so frequently and with many different individuals?
"The choice of sexmates is dictated by the social ties or strategic politics. It is also due to the tension. Our data reveals that the increase in social tensions
between Bonobos ( is translated )as sexual behavior. Food creates competition, and instead of fighitng for it, they have sexual relations in order to share the food later. That is why we say they make love and not war"

@4:25
This type of monkeys tends to have sexual relations face to face, a posture that in principle was thought to be exclusive of humans.
There are dangers if we relate these monkeys with humans, but there is a point in which (the Primatologist argues)the Bonobos are stronger:

"The Bonobos show us that the sexual life of our closest relatives is extremely rich and flexible. Those who claim that the only function of sex is reproduction are mistaken with the Bonobos, and it is possible that they are mistaken about us as well because sex can have multiple functions and vary/change greatly in a big society."

"And homosexual behavior is marginalized only in certain cultures. Is like just for having homosexual interests they end up being seen as exclusively homosexual; they could be bisexual, which may occur with a lot of heterosexuals. There is a kind of division that might not have been created naturally, but by intolerance."

Within the Bonobo's societies and other primate societies, the individuals who demonstrate homosexual behaviors do not seem to be marginalized/excluded; on the contrary it is just another part of their daily life.

-------------------------------------------------------------


This is probably the longest post on VideoSift, but I felt you guys were missing a lot in this video. I hope This gets to the front.

http://thegroundtruth.net/

The film maker's subjects are patriotic young Americans - ordinary men and women who heeded the call for military service in Iraq - as they experience recruitment and training, combat, homecoming, and the struggle to reintegrate with families and communities.

Really loved this documentary, I hope everyone gets to see it someway or the other... It's interesting to go see how inadequately the troops were prepared... And oh yeah sorry it's the trailer but I like supporting documentary productions

I'm not a big Björk fan - but a handfull of her songs are excellent (this being the one that really created her international career). Directed by Danny Cannon, who also made the film that this is the soundtrack to (The Young Americans).