To get even further off-topic, but maybe not, the only time I saw Paul Simon was he was touring with Bob Dylan in 1999. The song out of all the others by both men was when Dylan sang a somewhat obscure song off of <u>Freewheelin'</u>, his second album, called "Masters Of War." It seemed a little out of place and irrelevant at the time (1999), but his delivery was haunting. Now it seems prophetic, with the last two verses being:
MASTERS OF WAR
....Let me ask you one question
Is your money that good
Will it buy you forgiveness
Do you think that it could
I think you will find
When your death takes its toll
All the money you made
Will never buy back your soul
And I hope that you die
And your death'll come soon
I will follow your casket
In the pale afternoon
And I'll watch while you're lowered
Down to your deathbed
And I'll stand over your grave
'Til I'm sure that you're dead
- Bob Dylan
written decades before the Blackwater scandel and performed years before, but is seems more appropriate now than ever before.
Robert Meyer
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