でも、春がくればまた満開の花を咲かせ、夏には緑の葉でいっぱいになります。
選挙が近いですね。
選挙の結果がどうであれ、この国の将来を考えるとあまり明るくないかもしれないなぁ。
この国に限らずどの国も大差ないのかもしれませんけど。
歴史の本を見ても、暗い時代の方がはるかに多かった・・・。
政治に期待しても無駄かもしれない、そんな思いが頭をもたげます。
選挙が近いというので思い出した歌が、ローリングストーンズの Salt of the Eerth、
前にも紹介したことがあったかもしれませんけど。
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6nIYmuCF3RU
歌詞の中に（選挙での）選択は cancer（癌）か polio（小児麻痺）、
リーダーが必要なのに、いるのはギャンブラーばかり・・・、
なんて部分があって、思わず苦笑してしまいます。
歌詞は下記のとおりです。
Lets drink to the hard working people
Lets drink to the lowly of birth
Raise your glass to the good and the evil
Lets drink to the salt of the earth
Say a prayer for the common foot soldier
Spare a thought for his back breaking work
Say a prayer for his wife and his children
Who burn the fires and who still till the earth
And when I search a faceless crowd
A swirling mass of gray and black and white
They don't look real to me
In fact, they look so strange
Raise your glass to the hard working people
Lets drink to the uncounted heads
Lets think of the wavering millions
Who need leading but get gamblers instead
Spare a thought for the stay-at-home voter
His empty eyes gaze at strange beauty shows
And a parade of the gray suited grafters
A choice of cancer or polio
And when I look in the faceless crowd
A swirling mass of grays and black and white
They don't look real to me
Or don't they look so strange
Lets drink to the hard working people
Lets think of the lowly of birth
Spare a thought for the rag taggy people
Lets drink to the salt of the earth
Lets drink to the hard working people
Lets drink to the salt of the earth
Lets drink to the two thousand million
Lets think of the humble of birth
