Trump has taught his followers a valuable lesson – namely, you can get away with making up facts and stories as long as you do it fast enough and with constant repetition so that no one has time to debunk all of the lies. It’s an effective tool if your only objective is power and self-promotion.
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LYRICS
Freedom Toast
Money is a burning thing
And it makes my cold heart sing
Fills my heart with great desire
Makes me join a ring of liars
I fell in with a burning ring of liars
I went round, round, round
Wonderin’ how I could conspire
To get rich, rich, rich
From rings of liars, those rings of liars.
Lies told by Sean are sweet
When he’s not on, I can tweet
We could never fool a child
But those MAGA nuts go wild
I fell in with a burning ring of liars
Net worth down, down, down
And my debts piling higher
They’re concerned they’re burned
That ring of liars, that ring of liars.
Mueller said that I’m home free!
Innocent as I can be!
Moscow Tower will get a buyer!
(Don’t believe it, I’m a liar)
I fell in with a burning ring of liars
Net worth down, down, down
And my debts piling higher
They’re concerned they’re burned
That ring of liars, that ring of liars.
ABOUT THE SOURCE SONG
The song “Ring of Fire” was made popular by Johnny Cash after it appeared on his 1963 compilation album Ring of Fire: The Best of Johnny Cash. Written by Cash’s eventual second wife, June Carter Cash, and songwriter Merle Kilgore, “(Love’s) Ring of Fire” was originally recorded by June’s sister, Anita Carter, on her 1962 album, Folk Songs Old and New.
Cash’s version became one of the biggest hits of his career, staying at No. 1 on the country chart for seven weeks. It was certified gold by the RIAA on January 21, 2010, and has sold over 1.2 million digital downloads. It was named the fourth greatest country song of all time by Country Music Television, while Rolling Stone called it the number one greatest country song of all time and listed it as the 87th greatest song of all time.
In 1999, the 1963 recording of the song by Johnny Cash on the Columbia Records label was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame.
Description
Most of the song is dedicated to a chorus that extends the metaphor comparing the passions of love with a “ring of fire”. It describes being burned, and the flames rising, as the person continues falling for quite a distance (“down, down, down”), using the vocabulary of “falling in love”. The song concludes without any resolution to the situation. No surprise there.
Some sources claim that Carter had seen the words “Love is like a burning ring of fire” underlined in an Elizabethan poetry book owned by her uncle A. P. Carter.] She worked with Kilgore on writing a song inspired by this imagery, as she had seen her uncle do in the past. In her words: “There is no way to be in that kind of hell, no way to extinguish a flame that burns, burns, burns”.
The song was originally recorded by June’s sister, Anita Carter, on her Mercury Records album Folk Songs Old and New (1963) as “(Love’s) Ring of Fire”. After hearing Anita’s version, Cash claimed he had a dream where he heard the song accompanied by “Mexican horns”. The mariachi horn sound had recently been popularized on American radio with 1962 hit song “The Lonely Bull” by Herb Alpert. Cash said, “[…] I’ll give you about five or six more months, and if you don’t hit with it, I’m gonna record it the way I feel it.” Cash noted that adding trumpets was a change to his basic sound.
When the song failed to become a major hit for Anita, Cash recorded it his own way, adding the mariachi-style horns from his dream. This sound was later used in the song “It Ain’t Me Babe”, which was recorded around the same time. Mother Maybelle and the Carter sisters are prominently featured in the Cash recording singing harmony. Cash tinkered with a few of the original phrases in Anita Carter’s version of the song. Cash’s daughter Rosanne said, “The song is about the transformative power of love and that’s what it has always meant to me and that’s what it will always mean to the Cash children.”