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Thread #58662   Message #931024
Posted By: InOBU
11-Apr-03 - 08:03 AM
Thread Name: Lyr Add: A Victory Song for the USA!
Subject: RE: Lyr Add: A Victory Song for the USA!
Don... my dear dear friend... You have to get the full effect, I will send you the rough tracks of the 3rd CD, with the version that WBAI played... YOU SEE it is the LACK of subtly that is the point! We sent an army in killing thousands for nothing, for nothing for nothing, Now, I continue to write versce such as

Your child wore no uniform
Your child held no gun
your child had no time to grow to anyone
what your child would have done
if America only waited

Impatient to count the votes
Impatient to see if nations togethe would work to be free
but we drop death from the sky and death from our guns
and shed not a tear for the old or young
But we only care for our daughters and sons
whos lives are swept away in our wars...

BUT THIS song, has cybals clashing, snare and base drums, massed chior, and sounds like the Red Army, or the Wermacht or, yes, the US military band, you know the oximoron, Military Music... Now, I was not going to put it on the CD until I got an email from a listener to the radio who wrote me, after calling the station for the adress, he said, this song is PURE evil, I loved it.

That's the point, we can't always sing gently
Cheers
Larry
PS It is as subtle as Thom of Bedlam, eh?