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Manson doesn't want to get out. By the time he'd been arrested in 1969 for crimes unrelated (at the time) to the Tate/LaBianca murders he had already spent more than half of his life in prison or some other institution. That's the world he knows, and he knows he doesn't belong outside of that environment. So he goes to his parole hearings, spouts off some nonsense, and the Powers That Be leave him where he is until the next time. It's a waste of everyone's time and money, but they're legally obligated to go through the motions.
"Revolution Blues"Well, we live in a trailerat the edge of townYou never see us'cause we don't come around.We got twenty five riflesjust to keepthe population down.But we need you now,and that's whyI'm hangin' 'round.So you be good to meand I'll be good to you,And in this land of conditionsI'm not above suspicionI won't attack you,but I won't back you.Well, it's so good to be here,asleep on your lawn.Remember your guard dog?Well, I'm afraidthat he's gone.It was such a dragto hear himwhining all night long.Yes, that was me with the doves,setting them freenear the factoryWhere you built your computer,love.I hope you get the connection,'cause I can't takethe rejectionI won't deceive you,I just don't believe you.Well, I'm a barrel of laughs,with my carbine onI keep 'em hoppin',till my ammunition's gone.But I'm still not happy,I feel likethere's something wrong.I got the revolution blues,I see bloody fountains,And ten million dune buggiescomin' down the mountains.Well, I hear that Laurel Canyonis full of famous stars,But I hate them worse than lepersand I'll kill themin their cars.
Uplifting lyrics, eh? It does make ya' wonder how different his life might have been if he'd landed a recording contract back then. Or maybe he still would have gone off the rails; he really doesn't strike me as being the "stable" type.
?He wrote me a letter out of the blue once and he said, ?I saw you on MTV and I thought you were pretty cool?.?So we corresponded a few times in 1984; I?d just tell him about what we were doing with our new record and he?d send back semi-lucid responses.?He made references to The Beach Boys stealing his ideas, which sounded like sour grapes, and told me to tell everybody else to take care of wildlife. That must have been the old hippy in him talking.?Rollins outlined that he was very young when he started corresponding with Manson?who was sentenced to life in 1971 for the infamous Manson Family Murders which took place two years earlier.?At the time I was very young and having him write me letters made me feel very intense and heavy,? he said. ?I?d always know I?d have a letter in my PO Box from him because the woman behind the counter at the post office would give you this awful look.?His letters would always have swastikas on them so they were easy to spot.?
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