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"How We Doing, John?" by Zenboy1955

How We Doing, John?


You tried to wake us from our dream,
Turn our minds off, relax, float downstream…

How we doing?
How’s that going for us?

You showed us how to change our times,
Revolution—if we’d just free our minds…

How we doing?
How’s that going for us now?

We really dug your deeper stuff,
Now it seems we didn’t dig deep enough.
.
How we doing?
How’s that going for us?

You said, “all we need is Love:
just imagine no heaven above”

Did we do it?
Did we come together, John?
(I can’t imagine what the Walrus might say
about the instant karma here today.)
How we doing, John?
(Was the revolution ever won,
Or is happiness still a warm gun?)

How we doing?
How’s that going for us?

Did we ever give peace a chance?
Did we ever change our circumstance?

You said you weren’t “the only one,”
“War is over, if you want it, son…”

You said: “It’s gonna be alright.”
But—Christ, you know it ain’t easy
When killing us
Is what’s gettin’ them through their life...

Did you ever think you’d see the day--when all the Eggmen had gone away?