Living With War
Today is Monday, 7 May 2007.
On this date in 1954, the Fall of Dien Bien Phu, the end of the French Empire in Indochina, for those keeping score.
Back in The Day, In a Time of Torment [the title of an I.F. Stone book], during the slaughter in Vietnam in the ’60s and ‘70s, there were late evenings when a friend would listen to certain songs over and over, beating theirself up over their inability to stop the slaughter, but the songs helped.
One was “River”, by Joni Mitchell. Original must be in litigation, having been scrubbed from You Tube, so here, as interpreted by Allison Crowe: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-aB_YFW4-fU.
And, from these days, Neil Young, “Living With War”, and I’m not sure if through the tears I’m getting this right, oh hell, just go to http://www.searchforvideo.com/music/n/neil-young/, “Living With War” is there, and then dig Real Neil performing John Lennon’s “Imagine”, in a tribute to the dead of 9-11.
Herewith, the lyrics to “Living With War”:
I'm living with war everyday
I'm living with war in my heart everyday
I'm living with war right now
And when the dawn breaks I see my fellow man
And on the flat-screen we kill and we're killed again
And when the night falls, I pray for peace
Try to remember peace (visualize)
I join the multitudes
I raise my hand in peace
I never bow to the laws of the thought police
I take a holy vow
To never kill again
To never kill again
I'm living with war in my heart
I'm living with war in my heart in my mind
I'm living with war right now
Don't take no tidal wave
Don't take no mass grave
Don't take no smokin' gun
To show how the west was won
But when the curtain falls, I pray for peace
Try to remember peace (visualize)
In the crowded streets
In the big hotels
In the mosques and the doors of the old museum
I take a holy vow
To never kill again
Try to remember peace
The rocket's red glare
Bombs bursting in air
Give proof through the night,
That our flag is still there
I'm living with war everyday
I'm living with war in my heart everyday
I'm living with war right now
On this date in 1954, the Fall of Dien Bien Phu, the end of the French Empire in Indochina, for those keeping score.
Back in The Day, In a Time of Torment [the title of an I.F. Stone book], during the slaughter in Vietnam in the ’60s and ‘70s, there were late evenings when a friend would listen to certain songs over and over, beating theirself up over their inability to stop the slaughter, but the songs helped.
One was “River”, by Joni Mitchell. Original must be in litigation, having been scrubbed from You Tube, so here, as interpreted by Allison Crowe: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-aB_YFW4-fU.
And, from these days, Neil Young, “Living With War”, and I’m not sure if through the tears I’m getting this right, oh hell, just go to http://www.searchforvideo.com/music/n/neil-young/, “Living With War” is there, and then dig Real Neil performing John Lennon’s “Imagine”, in a tribute to the dead of 9-11.
Herewith, the lyrics to “Living With War”:
I'm living with war everyday
I'm living with war in my heart everyday
I'm living with war right now
And when the dawn breaks I see my fellow man
And on the flat-screen we kill and we're killed again
And when the night falls, I pray for peace
Try to remember peace (visualize)
I join the multitudes
I raise my hand in peace
I never bow to the laws of the thought police
I take a holy vow
To never kill again
To never kill again
I'm living with war in my heart
I'm living with war in my heart in my mind
I'm living with war right now
Don't take no tidal wave
Don't take no mass grave
Don't take no smokin' gun
To show how the west was won
But when the curtain falls, I pray for peace
Try to remember peace (visualize)
In the crowded streets
In the big hotels
In the mosques and the doors of the old museum
I take a holy vow
To never kill again
Try to remember peace
The rocket's red glare
Bombs bursting in air
Give proof through the night,
That our flag is still there
I'm living with war everyday
I'm living with war in my heart everyday
I'm living with war right now
posted by HH at 9:08 PM
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