From the recording Off The Mark
I am not a politician. Politics turn me off. I am grateful for those that serve with a giving heart, but a part of me also wonders if they don’t have a screw or wire loose somewhere. Who would deliberately subject him/herself and their family to such scrutiny, along with the cruel and unusual punishment that goes with the territory? That said, what is going on out there? What has happened to our fundamental values? We are so busy trying to avoid stepping on the toes of the worst of us that we wind up standing on the necks of the vast majority of decent people. What has happened to the concept of the value of life? How can it be that there are people in the world who find life so abhorrent that they feel the only answer is to end their own lives while taking as many souls as possible with them? The world is spinning wildly out of control, and mankind, as a whole, is too stubborn and foolish to stop the insanity. Leadership must take the oars and paddle the canoe over to shore before we go over the falls.
Lyrics
Off The Mark words & music by JRRothrock c 4/16/2007
This stone is off the mark. We’re feelin’ our way in the dark.
Some fault our foreign bills… or is it "religious over-kill"?
Anyway you do the math… we’re screamin’ down a fateful path…
Someone’s gotta hit the brakes! We’re gamblin’ with the highest stakes! Yeah!!!
…I don’t care who you anoint… if you strap a bomb on, and waste your life…
... just to prove your point!
Why choose a certain end… when ya haven’t even tried to be my friend?! Yeah!
Go ahead and pray to your god. Everybody chooses.
It’s when you choose the gun that everybody loses!!!
You don’t know my world, and I don’t know yours…
... but I know we just can’t afford to keep on slammin’ doors!
There’s only one thing that assures, and that is…
… instead of talkin’ sense, we’ll just keep on wagin’ wars!!
It doesn’t matter what you are…. (…doesn’t matter what you are….)
This whole damn thing has gone too far! (…whole thing’s gone too far…)
Just ‘cause we don’t see eye-to-eye… (…we don’t see eye-to-eye…)
…doesn’t mean someone’s gotta die!!! (…nobody’s gotta die!)
Go on…and pray to your god. Everybody chooses.
But when you choose the gun, then everybody loses!!!
[Instrumental Break]
This stone’s way off the mark. We’re stumblin’ through the dark…
It’s all gotten so extreme…
No more "gently down the stream"?
Oh, yeah! Something’s gotta give!
Go on and live… but, baby, please let live!
No matter who is right or wrong…
…we all just gotta get along!
…C’mon now!