I just picked up the new Bruce Cockburn album, Life Short, Call Now. I really like it. My son and I are going to hear him at the Barrymore on March 15. I shamelessly admit to being a groupy! I've seen him 8 or 9 times over the years. I'm thrilled that my 12 year old son loves Bruce and what his songs have to say. Our concert reviews are coming after the 15th. This is a song off the album, called "This is Baghdad"
Everything's broken in the birthplace of law
As Generation Two tries on his tragic flaw
America's might under desert sun
I saw her frightened eyes behind the muzzle of her gun
Uranium dust and the smell of decay
Sewage in the street where the kids run and play
Not enough morphine and not enough gauze
Firefight in darkness like snapping of jaws
This is Baghdad
This is Baghdad
This is Baghdad
This is Baghdad
This is Baghdad
This is Baghdad
This is Baghdad
You couldn't see the blast-the morning was bright-
But some radiant energy flared up into the light
Like the sky throwing its hands up in a horrified dismay
Or the souls of the dead as they sped on their way
Carbombed and carjacked and kidnapped and shot
How do you like it, this freedom we brought
We packed all the ordnance but the thing we forgot
Was a plan in case it didn't turn out quite like we thought
This is Baghdad
This is Baghdad
This is Baghdad
This is Baghdad
This is Baghdad
This is Baghdad
This is Baghdad
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- poodledoc
- 51 year old, divorced father of 13 year old son. Veterinarian for 10 years. Cub fan for 45 years. Owner of an 8 year old black Standard Poodle named Duke and Budgie named Bob. (Max during this past Christmas season, of unknown causes)
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I still believe, albeit cynically, that it was no mistake at all that they didn't have a plan, and that in fact things are going exactly as the neocons want them to be going.
Good song. I'm still contemplating going myself. I saw (the other)Bruce back in the eighties, when Ray-Gun and the US were messing up Central America. Some things never change, do they?
I have his Christmas album. I usually don't go in for Christmas albums, but I really like this one. There's one really rockin' carol, and I remember 5 year-old Anna dancing to it in a big circle around Sophie when she was a few days old. She told me, "I'm singing to Sophie about the baby Jesus!" It's a sweet memory.
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