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...Annie Leibovitz picture of Dorian Gray. No wonder, on this third solo attempt, he can put so much weight and irony into these lines from I've Been Lonely for So Long: "Everybody's throwin' rocks in my bed/ Just can't seem to get ahead in life/ Nothin' I do seems to turn out right/ Somebody help...
...guitar accompaniment. "Besides listening to my belly gurgle/ Ain't much else to do," he groans, then concludes by mumbling, "I think it's time I had a talk with my kids/ I'll just tell 'em what my daddy told me/ You ain't ever gonna amount to nothin...
Menacing as it sounds, the fantasy in Cop Killer is the fantasy of the powerless and beaten down -- the black man who's been hassled once too often ("A pig stopped me for nothin'!"), spread-eagled against a police car, pushed around. It's not a "responsible" fantasy (fantasies seldom are). It's not even a very creative one. In fact, the sad thing about Cop Killer is that it falls for the cheapest, most conventional image of rebellion that our culture offers: the lone gunman spraying fire from his AK-47. This is not "sedition"; it's the familiar...
...Harvard, it's all or nothing. And it's been a whole lotta nothin' for some time...
Just remember: If you find yourself on a roadwithout any street signs, you're not in theTwilight Zone-you're on Elvis Presley Boulevard.Tell yourself you ain't nothin' but a houn' dawgand speed along