A Letter To Dad - Pony With The Golden Mane lyrics

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Dear Dad, in answer to your letter

I'd like to say I appreciate your

Understanding of my generation's

Need for individuality and need to rebel

Against the long file of look alike faces

For us, there was a simple answer

Hair, hair on the face and

Hair on the head, lots of it

To prove that I'm me and not to

Be identified with the establishment

And the mixed up state we find

The world in now

If this were the time of Lincoln

I just might decide to shave my face clean

Just to prove I'm me

I also appreciate your promise

Not to judge me just as a teenager

But as an individual

I realize that mankind is

Always attributed to the many

The misbehavior to the few

And I promise in return to judge you

As a thinking, rational being

Worthy of love and consideration

And not just as a parent

When we were discussing religion

I remembered having posed the question

Is God dead

By this, of course, I meant

God as we know him dead

Are the ideas of God changing

He is no longer, in my generation

Thought to be a vengeful old man

With a white beard or even

As a separate existence

We have realized that God is in all of us

That, as you said in your letter

God is love, but our love, brotherhood

I'm glad to see that you think

All the past wars were immoral

Here, we surely agree

But then you make

A different assumption than I

You say they were necessary

And I don't agree

I've spent long hours over this question

And find that I must hold

That war is not inevitable

That man's greatest goal should be

To avoid war at all costs

You used the phrase, fight for the right

Two times in your letter

I pose that this one phrase is to blame

For millions of lives and endless

Pain and suffering

It is not the lack of pride for my country

But an abundance of respect

For my fellow man which demands

That I must promise myself

Not to use violence, no matter what

This, I think, will go down in history as

The one truth discovered by my generation

And if after reading the words of

Schweitzer, Gandhi and other great men

And on the basis of all the

Available knowledge of history

And understanding the dangers

Of a too hardened patriotism

I choose to burn my draft card

Then, Dad, it will be you who will

Have to burn my birth certificate

And although you stopped calling me son

I'll never stop calling you Dad<br />

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Thanks to razvan