by robertdreed » Sun Oct 23, 2005 4:11 am
Looking over the playlist...<br><br>Great to know that you're a Sun Ra, fan, Jeff. I was lucky enough to catch Mystere Re and the Arkestre 3 times, live. <br><br>When I used to do my public afairs show on the secret history of the Drug War, "Open Hearings", on KDVS-FM 90.3, Davis, CA ( <!--EZCODE AUTOLINK START--><a href="http://kdvs.org/">kdvs.org/</a><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK END--> ), I used several songs as them music-<br><br>"Political World" Bob Dylan<br><br>"Get Up, Jonah" Bruce Cockburn<br><br>"Where'd You Hide The Body" James McMurtry<br><br>"Kill The Messenger" John Wesley Harding<br><br>"Where The Bodies Are" John Wesley Harding<br><br>"Memo From Turner" Mick Jagger<br><br>Lyrical knockouts, every one of them. <br><br>Check out the lyrics to "Get Up, Jonah", for instance- not bad aim, for 1995:<br><br>SONGS: <br>-- Get Up Jonah --<br>10 October 1995. Halton Hills.<br><br>--------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br><br>Found on: <br><br>The Charity Of Night (1996) <br>Lyrics: <br><br>( I woke up thinking about Turkish drummers<br>It didn't take long - I don't know much about Turkish drummers - <br>But it made me think of Germany and the guy who sold me cigarettes<br>Who'd been in the Afghan secret police <br>Who made the observation<br>That it's hard<br>To live<br><br>Then I was reminded of the proprietor of a Vietnamese restaurant in Quebec who used to be head of the secret police in Da Nang - and it occurred to me I was thinking about all this stuff to keep from thinking about something else... Isn't that just what secret police are all about??? )<br><br>Somebody stands in a window<br>Watches the river roll<br>Trains rumble in the foreground<br>With the weight of approaching dawn<br><br>Flames from the refinery<br>Rise broken, red and riveting<br>And the high vault of heaven<br>Looks far away and cold<br><br>There's howling in the factory yard <br>There's pounding in my head<br>I'm swollen up with unshed tears<br>Bloated like the dead...<br><br>(Instrumental break)<br><br>Blood and ashes - time burning<br>On the skyline dark against the stars <br>A solitary horseman - waiting<br><br>Lashed to the wheel<br>Whipping into the storm<br>Get up, Jonah<br>It's your time to be born <br><br> <!--EZCODE AUTOLINK START--><a href="http://cockburnproject.net/songs&music/guj.html">cockburnproject.net/songs&music/guj.html</a><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK END--><br><br><!--EZCODE ITALIC START--><em>Charity Of Night</em><!--EZCODE ITALIC END-->- that record is a masterpiece. Start to finish. The only song I'd edit out is "Mines Of Mozambique", which belongs on a different release, in my opinion. It's a very powerful song, but I find it too harrowing for the mood of the rest of the record.. I occasionally used "Mines" to close out my show, sometimes...fading it up, on the last verse:<br><br>...The all-night stragglers stagger home<br>Cocks begin to crow<br>And singing birds are starting up<br>Telling what they know<br>And after awhile the sun will come<br>And we'll see what it will show<br>Of the mines of Mozambique <br><br> <!--EZCODE AUTOLINK START--><a href="http://cockburnproject.net/songs&music/tmom.html">cockburnproject.net/songs.../tmom.html</a><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK END--><br><br>Or check this one out, by John Wesley Harding:<br><br>Where The Bodies Are<br><br>Somebody went and killed some people<br>And they know who<br>The evidence fits around the facts<br>Like a favourite shoe<br>But nobody knows where the corpses are<br>Their whereabouts unknown<br>The killer's in a frenzy<br>And he's getting on the phone<br>So they got their thinking hats on<br>And spread out in their cars<br>But only I know where the bodies are<br><br>You know they can i.d. someone<br>From one cell of skin<br>But they couldn't spot a crime scene<br>If the killer went and let 'em in<br>To genetic fingerprinting<br>We all take off our hats<br>To hide the little stains that spread<br>Across the welcome mat<br>You can put your best foot forward<br>And wish upon a star<br>But only I know where the bodies are<br><br><br>Lawyers defending guilty men<br>Depending on the bid<br>The question isn't if they're guilty<br>But if they'll get acquitted<br>Justice goes unjustfied<br>Beneath a police chief and an eagle<br>Pain's too difficult to prove<br>They're not going to make pain illegal<br>To think that we were once naive<br>To think we've come this far<br>To think that only I know where the bodies are<br><br><br>Some people don't wanna know<br>The facts behind the scam<br>Or see "Who could I be?"<br>Peeking out behind "The great I am"<br>But most of us got enough to think about<br>Husbands and wives<br>To notice pointless death's become<br>A brand new way of life<br>And this is just a sandwich board<br>That I wear out in the park<br>Saying only I know where the bodies are<br>(And I'm not telling you.)<br><br> <!--EZCODE AUTOLINK START--><a href="http://www.wesweb.net/recordings/wwf.html#thebodies">www.wesweb.net/recordings...#thebodies</a><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK END--><br><br>And this one here is some theme music for Patrick Fitzgerald (may he never do a "Memo From Turner" on us ):<br><br>James McMurtry, "Where'd You Hide the Body"<br><br>You look across the table with those guilty eyes<br>So many mornings now I shouldn't be surprised<br>When you lash out at me and you scream out in the night<br>What could you have done to get in such an awful fright<br>Is it all that bad that you think I shouldn't see<br>Well who you gonna talk to if you can't tell me<br><br>(chorus)<br>Where'd you hide the body<br>Where'd you stash the loot<br>Just keep your hands where I can see them<br>So I don't have to shoot<br>There's a smoking pistol at your side<br>But you swear it's not the one<br>Where'd you hide the body<br>Where'd you get the gun<br>Where'd you hide the body<br>Where'd you get the gun<br><br>When cornered you complain about the state of your career<br>And you look intently straight ahead pretending I'm not here<br>And you look me in the eye and tell me it's not about us<br>Then you tell me I'm so silly to be making such a fuss<br>So everything's OK except you're nervous as a cat<br>What's that say about me that you think I'd fall for that<br><br>(chorus) <br><br>Where'd you hide the body<br>Where'd you ditch the gun<br>Keep your hands where I can see 'em<br>Make no attempt to run<br><br>You used to always throw me off the trail<br>I guess those days are through<br>Where'd you hide the body<br>What's consuming you<br>Where'd you hide the body<br>What's consuming you<br><br> <!--EZCODE AUTOLINK START--><a href="http://www.jamesmcmurtry.com/lyrics/wyhtb.htm#12">www.jamesmcmurtry.com/lyr...htb.htm#12</a><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK END--><br><br> <br><br><br><br><br> <p></p><i>Edited by: <A HREF=http://p216.ezboard.com/brigorousintuition.showUserPublicProfile?gid=robertdreed>robertdreed</A> at: 10/23/05 3:37 am<br></i>