Down South

The Dixie Chicks - Not ready (to make nice)





Zie ook
http://rotterdampoetrylakes.blogspot.com/2010/07/ook-bijna-een-gedicht.html




NOT READY TO MAKE NICE


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 and
I don’t have time to go round and round and round
It’s too late to make it right
I probably wouldn’t if I could
‘Cause I’m mad as hell
Can’t bring myself to do what it is you think I should

I know you said
Can’t you just get over it
It turned my whole world around
And I kind of like it

I made my bed and I sleep like a baby
With no regrets and I don’t mind sayin’
It’s a sad sad story when a mother will teach her
Daughter that she ought to hate a perfect stranger
And how in the world can the words that I said
Send somebody so over the edge
That they’d write me a letter
Sayin’ that I better shut up and sing
Or my life will be over

I’m not ready to make nice
I’m not ready to back down
I’m still mad as hell and
I don’t have time to go round and round and round
It’s too late to make it right
I probably wouldn’t if I could
‘Cause I’m mad as hell
Can’t bring myself to do what it is you think I should

I’m not ready to make nice
I’m not ready to back down
I’m still mad as hell and
I don’t have time to go round and round and round
It’s too late to make it right
I probably wouldn’t if I could
‘Cause I’m mad as hell
Can’t bring myself to do what it is you think I should

What it is you think I should

Forgive, sounds good
Forget, I’m not sure I could
They say time heals everything
But I’m still waiting


© Emily Erwin, Martie Erwin, Natalie Maines (The Dixie Chicks),
album: Taking The Long Way (2006).

De cd werd bekroond met 5 Grammy Awards, het lied Not Ready To Make Nice werd uitgeroepen tot o.a. "song of the year" resp. "record of the year".
Volgens CNN waren de prijzen en verkoopresultaten - tot woede van conservatieve zuidelijke aanhangers - mede te danken aan de politieke stellingname van het trio.
In maart 2003 had eerste zangeres Maines zich tijdens een optreden in Londen laten ontvallen dat ze zich schaamde dat de toenmalige president G. Bush afkomstig was uit Texas, de staat waar zij eveneens opgroeide. De kritiek in het buitenland aan de vooravond van de Irakoorlog kwam de Dixie Chicks te staan op een muzikale boycot in de hele VS.