Wham Blam Blam

 

Whaam! -- Roy Lichtenstein (1963)

Seed idea was a diary entry on 3/11/1998: "First line for novel: 'In the old days, there were so many regrets. It became a game to see how many we could get.', and a title idea I had on 3/11/2009: The Game of Regret.  In March 2003 the invasion of Iraq had begun, which was "Mission Accomplished" in 3 years in 2006, but went on for another 15 years. 

The song is more historical than it is political, to wit: 8/31/2010: End of combat mission in Iraq. Obama gives his mile-stone speech ‘Mission Unaccomplished’. Hawks are asserting that our occupation of Iraq for its nation building somehow changed the world for the better, when conceivably, leaving Hussein in power could have preserved the extant Arab ecosystem; the tribal boundaries are still there. Is it possible for them to fade or devolve over generations? (They haven’t in other Islamic nations, e.g. Iran)...
With AI music you have skimpy options on how a song gets produced. The title suggests 70s Bowie, for obvious reasons. This sounds pretty juvenile but it's pretty catchy. 

The Lichtenstein works well. I don't think he'd mind. It's also historical in that it was completed in 1963, but we don't know what month. I'm presuming it was before November.

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In the old days
There were many regrets
It became a game--how many you could get
The war on terror
An expensive sham
We originally thought
It'd be a WHAM BLAM BLAM

WHAM BLAM BLAM
Thank you thank you man
Mission is accomplished
WHAM BLAM BLAM

WHAM BLAM BLAM
One and done
Mission is accomplished
WHAM BLAM BLAM

First line for a novel
Last line for a letter
Never got the message
Just returned it to the sender
Inability to zoom
To understand the scale
Triggers a tsunami
The ultimate betrayal

WHAM BLAM BLAM
Thank you thank you man
Mission is accomplished
WHAM BLAM BLAM

WHAM BLAM BLAM
Did we plan a sham?
Mission is accomplished
WHAM BLAM BLAM