{"id":242,"date":"2006-04-18T08:43:20","date_gmt":"2006-04-18T15:43:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/?p=242"},"modified":"2006-04-18T08:43:20","modified_gmt":"2006-04-18T15:43:20","slug":"dixie-chicks-not-ready-to-make-nice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/2006\/04\/18\/dixie-chicks-not-ready-to-make-nice\/","title":{"rendered":"Dixie Chicks “Not Ready to Make Nice”"},"content":{"rendered":"

<\/a>Forgive, sounds good.
\nForget, I’m not sure I could.
\nThey say time heals everything,
\nBut I’m still waiting<\/p>\n

I’m through, with doubt,
\nThere’s nothing left for me to figure out,
\nI’ve paid a price, and i’ll keep paying<\/p>\n

I’m not ready to make nice,
\nI’m not ready to back down,
\nI’m still mad as hell
\nAnd I don’t have time
\nTo go round and round and round
\nIt’s too late to make it right
\nI probably wouldn’t if I could
\nCause I’m mad as hell
\nCan’t bring myself to do what it is
\nYou think I should<\/p>\n

I know you said
\nWhy can’t you just get over it,
\nIt turned my whole world around
\nand i kind of like it<\/p>\n

I made by bed, and I sleep like a baby,
\nWith no regrets and I don’t mind saying,
\nIt’s a sad sad story
\nThat a mother will teach her daughter
\nthat she ought to hate a perfect stranger.
\nAnd how in the world
\nCan the words that I said
\nSend somebody so over the edge
\nThat they’d write me a letter
\nSaying that I better shut up and sing
\nOr my life will be over<\/p>\n

I’m not ready to make nice,
\nI’m not ready to back down,
\nI’m still mad as hell
\nAnd I don’t have time
\nTo go round and round and round
\nIt’s too late to make it right
\nI probably wouldn’t if I could
\nCause I’m mad as hell
\nCan’t bring myself to do what it is
\nYou think I should<\/p>\n

I’m not ready to make nice,
\nI’m not ready to back down,
\nI’m still mad as hell
\nAnd I don’t have time
\nTo go round and round and round
\nIt’s too late to make it right
\nI probably wouldn’t if I could
\nCause I’m mad as hell
\nCan’t bring myself to do what it is
\nYou think I should<\/p>\n

Forgive, sounds good.
\nForget, I’m not sure I could.
\nThey say time heals everything,
\nBut I’m still waiting
\n……………………………….<\/p>\n

To be sure, they “appeased” their “aggressors” during their ordeal and soft-pedaled — lightly taking away their criticism of Bush at their concerts back in March of 2001 — meaning, yes, they were “Ready to Make Nice”. I always thought their problem was that the whole “Country Music” arena was just packed with too many red-neck “Bombs Away” types for them to venture into that arena and not expect controversy… Tobe Keith, anyone? But, the media tried to make up a controversy about a literal handful of people walking out of a Pearl Jam concert after Eddie Vedder made a few remarks, so maybe they were skewered no matter what.<\/p>\n

The Dixie Chicks entertained the idea of “Going Pop”, as though the arena of “Country Music” hadn’t been diluted to the point where the terms are kind of meaningless and they were, by a standard lost somewhere in the past decade, “pop” anyways. (I note that Johnny Cash news items are now regularly covered on our “Alternative Rock” station, meaning that Alternative Rock has now claimed ownership of a Country Music legend, who was a decade ago in the arena of Country Music pushed aside as “old”. The politics of the Music Industry never cease to amaze me.) So they don’t have a whole lot of area to claim to have “Stood Their Ground”, fists raised.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Forgive, sounds good. Forget, I’m not sure I could. They say time heals everything, But I’m still waiting I’m through, with doubt, There’s nothing left for me to figure out, I’ve paid a price, and i’ll keep paying I’m not ready to make nice, I’m not ready to back down, I’m still mad as hell […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-242","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=242"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=242"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=242"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=242"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}