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Thread ID: 16719 | Posts: 4 | Started: 2005-02-12
2005-02-12 16:49 | User Profile
You may contribute your choice of classic hit that - due to its particular topicality - should be put right back into heavy rotation immediately; my vote goes to Jackson Browne.
LIVES IN THE BALANCE
I’ve been waiting for something to happen For a week or a month or a year With the blood in the ink of the headlines And the sound of the crowd in my ear You might ask what it takes to remember When you know that you’ve seen it before Where a government lies to a people And a country is drifting to war
And there’s a shadow on the faces Of the men who send the guns To the wars that are fought in places Where their business interest runs
On the radio, talk shows and t.v. You hear one thing again and again How the USA stands for freedom And we come to the aid of a friend But who are the ones that we call our friends-- These governments killing their own? Or the people who finally can’t take any more And they pick up a gun or a brick or a stone
And there are lives in the balance There are people under fire There are children at the cannons And there is blood on the wire
There’s a shadow on the faces Of the men who fan the flames Of the wars that are fought in places Where we can’t even say the names
They sell us the President the same way They sell us our clothes and our cars They sell us every thing from youth to religion The same time they sell us our wars I want to know who the men in the shadows are I want to hear somebody asking them why They can be counted on to tell us who our enemies are But they’re never the ones to fight or to die
And there are lives in the balance There are people under fire There are children at the cannons And there is blood on the wire
2005-02-12 20:33 | User Profile
When did this come out?
Vietnam era?
I don't remember it.
I like his Late for the Sky album. Somewhat wimpy, but the title song Late for the Sky is probably my all time favorite breakup song.
2005-02-12 23:06 | User Profile
Late 80s, I think. Good, simple, compelling song, even w/o the lyric.
2005-02-13 03:47 | User Profile
My Sharona The Knack [I]Get The Knack![/I] (Averre/Feiger)
Ooh my little pretty one, pretty one. When you gonna give me some time, Sharona? Ooh you make my motor run, my motor run. Gun it comin' off the line Sharona Never gonna stop, give it up. Such a dirty mind. Always get it up for the touch of the younger kind. My my my i yi woo. M M M My Sharona...
Come a little closer huh, ah will ya huh. Close enough to look in my eyes, Sharona. Keeping it a mystery gets to me Running down the length of my thighs, Sharona Never gonna stop, give it up. Such a dirty mind. Always get it up for the touch of the younger kind. My my my i yi woo. M M M My Sharona...
When you gonna give it to me, give it to me. It is just a matter of time Sharona Is it just destiny, destiny? Or is it just a game in my mind, Sharona? Never gonna stop, give it up. Such a dirty mind. Always get it up for the touch of the younger kind. My my my i yi woo. M M M My Sharona...