22.07.2007 13:17
pwill
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Song von Craig Doerge, David Crosby und Graham Nash, der einzige von Crosby, der zu dieser Zeit offenbar mit heftigen persönlichen Problemen rang. Dennoch: Dieser Song, vielleicht der beste, des 1990er Albums "Live It Up" von CSN, ist textlich der sozialkritischste, ein Song über die Verantwortung, die wir abtun, sobald sich etwas nicht direkt vor unserer Haustür abspielt. Es lohnt sich ihn zur Kenntnis zu nehmen.

"I can see a boy of fourteen, he's got a rifle in his hand
He's dying to defend his desert land.
He's got an arm around his father, another arm around his gun.
Must the child in the father die so young?

There's a teenage girl in Belfast, playing in the street.
Her brother plays a different game and he's turning up the heat
On the soldiers around the corner and the powers overseas.
And who are they to ruin lives like these?

'Cos they're yours and they're mine, they're yours and mine
'Cos they're yours and they're mine, yours and mine

So you think that it's so easy just to let it pass you by.
You watch T.V. and pretend it's all a lie.
But you know there is no Third World, it happens to us all.
There's just one world and the kids are the first to fall.

And they're yours and they're mine, they're yours and mine.
'Cos they're yours and they're mine, they're yours and mine
They're yours and they're mine, yours and mine

And she raised him for something better than a bullet
He's a every mother's son.
And she raised him for something better than a bullet
He's a every mother's son.
And she raised him for something better than a bullet
He's a every mother's son.

His life's hanging from a trigger and I won't to pull it

But they're yours and they're mine, they're yours and mine
'Cos they're yours and they're mine, they're yours and mine
'Cos they're yours and they're mine, they're yours and mine
'Cos they're yours and they're mine, yours and mine

Ganz stark noch das Sopran-Saxophon, das Branford Marsalis (ein Musiker, der mit Sting jahrelang zusammengearbeitet hat) hierzu improvisiert. Genial, auch für die Gesamtkomposition.