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A revolt that shakes a country. A legendary rock song. A text that speaks of revolution, of disappointed hopes and an eternal return of the same. You will take back a little Won’t get fooled again in these times of upheaval?
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The rebellion of Islamist opposition leader Abu Mohammed Al-Joulani was successful: in a few days, the bloody dictatorship of tyrant Bashar al-Assad collapsed. In Damascus, demonstrations of joy broke out and a wind of liberating freshness seems to be blowing over the country.
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Well, at first glance.
I thought it was a good time to return to a song that seems to have nothing political at first glance, but which nevertheless fully evokes the revolution in an explosive way: Won’t get fooled againthe wild, bouncy Brits from The Who.
It’s beating in the streets
Is this the theme song from CSI: Miami? Yes, we know. ???? And that doesn’t really do him justice, to tell the truth. Because the lyrics of the song are extremely topical. Judge for yourselves:
We’ll be fighting in the streets
With our children at our feet
And the morals that they worship will be gone
We will fight in the streets
With our children at our feet
And the morality they worship will be gone
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The people are in the streets and fighting ensues. Like the table Liberty leading the peoplethe Who’s 1971 song begins with chaos and violence.
They decide and the shotgun sings the song
They decide by the sound of the gun
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The new system, which overthrew the dictatorship, announces a glorious and singing tomorrow.
I’ll tip my hat to the new Constitution
Take a bow for the new revolution
Smile and grin at the change all around
I take my hat off to the new Constitution
I welcome the new revolution
I smile and wince at the change all around
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Who will benefit from this brutal change of power? Since we don’t know what the future will bring, it is better to get on our knees and pray:
Pick up my guitar and play
Just like yesterday
Then I’ll get on my knees and pray
We don’t get fooled again
I’ll take my guitar and I’ll play
Like I did yesterday
Then I’ll get on my knees and pray
So that we don’t get fooled anymore
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History repeats itself
The reversal of power was inevitable. It was even necessary:
A change, it had to come
We knew it all along
Change had to come
We knew it from the start
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But history has a tendency to repeat itself and a change of regime does not necessarily represent the end of troubles:
And the world looks just the same
And history ain’t changed
And the world is still the same
And the story hasn’t changed
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Are the new arrivals ultimately better than the previous ones? Would they even be worse? The situation can quickly turn against the revolutionaries:
I’ll move myself and my family aside
If we happen to be left half-alive
I will stay away from my family
If we make it out half alive
Yeah
The revolution is over. After the fighting in the streets, order returned:
There’s nothing in the street
Looks any different to me
And the slogans are effaced, by-the-bye
There is nothing left on the street
Which doesn’t seem any different to me
And the slogans have been erased, moreover
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Things are getting back into place. And the slogans conducive to revolution — like its message? — disappear from walls.
And the parting on the left
Is now parting on the right
And the beards have all grown longer overnight
And there are splits on the left
And then splits on the right
And the beards grew longer overnight
And yes: after the promises, reality comes back to hit politics hard. The splits and divisions follow one another. As for growing beards…
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After the cult “yyeeeeeaaaaahhhh”, which evokes the most sordid murders in Florida but also the explosion of joy of the rebels, the text ends with a very evocative one:
Meet the new boss
Same as the old boss
Here is the new boss
The same as the old boss
The revolution is dead, long live the revolution. We can continue to listen to this legendary rock song with a pleasure that is also very cyclical.
Update on the situation in Syria
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Thursday, like you perhaps, I was fooled. As I was wasting my free time scrolling through the Platform X feed, I suddenly burst out laughing. “Mathilde Panot and Louis Boyard formalize their relationship on Instagram”, which I read between two advertisements. Pardon? The two uncontrollable stars of France are in a relationship? Lol.
