Lookin' for a Leader

Neil Young's new album, "Living With War," includes the song 'Lookin' for a Leader.'

Lookin' for a leader
To bring our country home
Re-unite the red white and blue
Before it turns to stone

Lookin' for somebody
Young enough to take it on
Clean up the corruption
And make the country strong

Walkin' among our people
There's someone who's straight and strong
To lead us from desolation
And a broken world gone wrong

Someone walks among us
And I hope he hears the call
And maybe it's a woman
Or a black man after all

America has a leader
But he's not in the house
He's walking here among us
And we've got to seek him out

Yeah we've got our election
But corruption has a chance
We got to have a clean win
To regain confidence

America is beautiful
But she has an ugly side
We're lookin' for a leader
In this country far and wide
We're lookin' for a leader
With the great spirit on his side

Someone walks among us
And I hope he hears the call
And maybe it's a woman
Or a black man after all

Frankly, I don't personally care if America's next leader is a black man or a woman. All I want is someone who believes, like the late, great economist John Kennenth Galbraith, that markets and governments must work together to produce:

1. great schools and universites


2. first-rate healthcare for all


3. an environment protected -- not destroyed


4. personal freedom that's not dependent on what people own or or who they know