04-20-2010, 09:44 AM
Here is a link to a song written in the late 1960's during the height of the Vietnam war. It's about wanting to escape war and the inhumanity of war. I'm posting it because I used to think it was about the American Civil War but according to one of the composers, Steven Stills, it is about the Holocost during WWII.
I'm not sure how the "wooden ships" fits in WWII.
Today our country seems to be almost as divided as it was during the Civil War. There are some people who, being fueled by some in media , if they fail to effect change in upcoming elections, would commence a new civil war here in America. Dehumanizing your enemy is one of the most important first steps in war and that has already happened.
Yes, there are "silver people on the shoreline" who won't leave us be.
Quite a moving song. Wooden Ships by Jefferson Airplane - 1969.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hIccZsURy...re=related
If you smile at me you know I will understand
Cause that is something everybody everywhere does
In the same language
I can see by your coat my friend that you're from the other side
There's just one thing I got to know
Can you tell me please who won
You must try some of my purple berries
I been eating them for six or seven weeks now
Haven't got sick once
Probably keep us both alive
Wooden ships on the water very free and easy
Easy you know the way it's supposed to be
Silver people on the shoreline leave us be
Very free and easy
Sail away where the mornin sun goes high
Sail away where the wind blows sweet and young birds fly
Take a sister THEN by her hand
Lead her far from this barren land
Horror grips us as we watch you die
All we can do is echo your anguished cry and
Stare as all human feelings die
We are leaving
You don't need us
Go and take a sister by her hand
Lead her far from this foreign land
Somewhere where we might laugh again
We are leaving
You don't need us
Sailing ships on the water very free and easy
Easy you know the way it's supposed to be
Silver people on the shoreline leave us be
Very free
And gone
I'm not sure how the "wooden ships" fits in WWII.
Today our country seems to be almost as divided as it was during the Civil War. There are some people who, being fueled by some in media , if they fail to effect change in upcoming elections, would commence a new civil war here in America. Dehumanizing your enemy is one of the most important first steps in war and that has already happened.
Yes, there are "silver people on the shoreline" who won't leave us be.
Quite a moving song. Wooden Ships by Jefferson Airplane - 1969.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hIccZsURy...re=related
If you smile at me you know I will understand
Cause that is something everybody everywhere does
In the same language
I can see by your coat my friend that you're from the other side
There's just one thing I got to know
Can you tell me please who won
You must try some of my purple berries
I been eating them for six or seven weeks now
Haven't got sick once
Probably keep us both alive
Wooden ships on the water very free and easy
Easy you know the way it's supposed to be
Silver people on the shoreline leave us be
Very free and easy
Sail away where the mornin sun goes high
Sail away where the wind blows sweet and young birds fly
Take a sister THEN by her hand
Lead her far from this barren land
Horror grips us as we watch you die
All we can do is echo your anguished cry and
Stare as all human feelings die
We are leaving
You don't need us
Go and take a sister by her hand
Lead her far from this foreign land
Somewhere where we might laugh again
We are leaving
You don't need us
Sailing ships on the water very free and easy
Easy you know the way it's supposed to be
Silver people on the shoreline leave us be
Very free
And gone