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The Animal Years, 2006
Written by John Ritter
A song that sounds like a love song but is actually an anti-war diatribe in disguise. It kicks off with a Dylan-like jangle, nearly but not quite becoming "Fourth Time Around." Then a Ritter version of that high thin wild mercury sound. Highly literate as always, the lyrics open with a very chilling premonition: "All those words that we wrote / Are just the rules of the game and the rules are the first to go." The Constitution is inviolable until some man-child demagogue decides it isn't and his sheep praise him for it.
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