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Oct 16, 2007 at 5:03 PM Post #1,235 of 137,754
These Days / Lives in the Balance

Jackson Browne

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The Next Voice You Hear [15 tracks,'97]

/Jackson Browne (vocals, guitar, keyboards; born October 9, 1948)

Jackson Browne has been both an introspective, cerebral songwriter and a politically attuned voice of conscience. He emerged in the early Seventies as a soul-baring young folksinger whose songs dealt with riddles of romance and existence. In his middle period he became a more extroverted rock and roller. Later work grew more topical in nature as Browne sang of political and social realities within and beyond our borders. “In a way, I don’t choose what I write about - my subjects kind of choose me,” this vanguard singer/songwriter explained in 1993. “It’s a healing thing, a way of confronting what’s important in my life at the time.”
March 15, 2004: Jackson Browne is inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame at the nineteenth annual induction dinner.

Lives in the Balance - Lyrics [writen era 1986]

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 headline
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 her people
And a country is drifting to war

And 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 the T.V.
You hear one thing again and again
How the U.S.A. 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 any more
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 their 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 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
 
Oct 16, 2007 at 5:31 PM Post #1,236 of 137,754
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Oct 16, 2007 at 7:10 PM Post #1,238 of 137,754
'Simply Amazin' -- Blu // Blu & Exile , Below The Heavens

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Best hip hop album of 2007 ? Likely....
 
Oct 17, 2007 at 1:00 AM Post #1,242 of 137,754
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excellent.


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even better second time around. about 2-3 tracks that sound bad in terms of recording quality. the rest is good. and the music throughout is very good.


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hope sandoval of mazzy star. she's my favorite. voice is ethereal.
 

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