America

First Take Friday - Episode #22
America
Written by Jonathan Brader

Tale of the Tune:
I had a very difficult time writing a song this week. I started about 4 songs, but somehow this one came to the forefront. I’ve never written a political song and I’ve never had a desire to, so this is pretty shocking to me. 
 
I consider myself to be right in the middle when it comes to politics, but the corruption in our government is unbelievable.  Our elected officials are more interested in keeping themselves in office than they are in representing their constituents and that has to stop.  I really do think the best thing to do would be to vote in new representatives who will vow to never take a dime in contributions from PACs or lobbyists, but that is never going to happen because in order to win an election they have to advertise.  Career politicians were never part of the original plan.  The whole thing is FUBAR.  It depresses me.

Thankfully, I've already thought of a number of edits to this, but I ran out time to implement them before I recorded this one.  You can hear when I try to slam as many words into the 4th verse as I possibly can!  Time is of the essence.