Jackson Brown ('86) and Bill Moyers on the "DEEP STATE" ....THERE ARE LIVES IN THE BALANCE!

[KoKo]

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Jackson Brown

Jackson Brown......"There are Lives in the Balance"

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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

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 interests run

On the radio talk shows and TV
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 anymore
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 everything 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't 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

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The Deep State
--BILL MOYERS

Bill Moyers interviews Mike Lofgren........It's quite a Watch/Listen

Bill Moyers 198
https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=GGSwCA28AP4#t=9

[KoKo]

1. Jackson Video Fixed....at beginning.

[rdharma]

2. That song is brilliant. And probably my favorite Jackson Brown song.

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This song by Bruce Cockburn also affected me deeply.

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Breakfast woodsmoke on the breeze --
On the cliff the U.S. Embassy
Frowns out over Managua like Dracula's tower
The kid who guards Fonseca's tomb
Cradles a beat-up submachine gun --
At age fifteen he's a veteran of four years of war
Proud to pay his dues
He knows who turns the screws
Baby face and old man's eyes
Blue lagoon and flowering trees --
Bullet-packed Masaya streets
Full of the ghosts of the heroes of Monimbo
Women of the town laundry
Work and gossip and laugh at me --
They don't believe I'll ever send them the pictures I took
For every scar on a wall
There's a hole in someone's heart
Where a loved one's memory lives
In the flash of this moment
You're the best of what we are --
Don't let them stop you now
Nicaragua
Sandino in his tom mix hat
Gazes from billboards and coins
"Sandino vive in la lucha por la paz"
Sandino of the shining dream
Who stood up to the U.S. Marines --
Now Washington panics at U2 shots of "Cuban-style" latrines
In the flash of this moment
You're the best of what we are --
Don't let them stop you now
Nicaragua

[zeemike]

3. Thanks for posting this KoKo.

I love Jackson Brown....and that Bill Moyer piece is a must see...so it is double good.
K&R.

[NYC_SKP]

4. Wow. K and R and thinking of other compositions that never made the top 40!

New world, new people, and it all goes on....

[NYC_SKP]

5. Just you and me on these streets of gold....

Where are the frontiers?
How do I get there?
There are no maps, there are no roads
Just you and me on these streets of gold

(Formerly Jefferson Airplane)

http://www.lyricsmode.com/lyrics/k/kbc_band/america.html

[KoKo]

6. Didn't know KBC Band was formerly Jefferson Airplane.

Interesting song...Thanks!

[NYC_SKP]

7. K is for Paul Kanter, B is for Marty Balin, C is for Jack Cassidy!

Here's an oldie:

[KoKo]

8. What's fascinating is that it starts off so Rah Rah ...and slipped in

is the Zinger....

Reading the lyrics is the CLUE!