About This Song: (lyrics below)
I guess you might say this song is about the “pre-apocalyptic dystopia” that is our “Modern Life”…
Where we keep going along, business as usual, heads down in our own little lives while we grind the planet (and ourselves down) with short sighted consumerism…
THE perfect song to listen to on a Wednesday! (or whenever) LOL
Can You Hear Me?
Song # 93 | 12/1986 | CD:
Radio, oh radio
You sing praises to the bleached-blonde
Pop tart generation that I come from
Who are we? Who are you?
Where do we go? What do we do?
We buy our cars to Mozart then
We sit in traffic chewing gum
And the old prophetic dreamers
The schemers and believers
Now overweight police chiefs
Fondling their pocket knives
Are we the baby boomers? The users and consumers?
Are we the failing echoes
Of the questions of our former lives?
Refrain:
Can you hear me? Can you hear me?
Can you hear me in your promised land?
Can you hear me? Can you hear me?
Can you hear me from where you stand?
Our homes are like our nations
Trimmed in razor ribbon,
A birthday cake, a battleground
A kerosene drenched wedding gown
Preacher, singer, seeker
Look out everybody in the teeming,
Sweaty congregation of life
Did you think to find it easy?
Did you think to find the reason
That the rocks sing and the eyes scream
And the cars explode like diamonds in the firelight
Refrain:
Bridge:
Mary, Mary tell me how does the baby sleep?
Mary, Mary, tell me why do you weep?
Mary, Mary tell me how does the baby sleep?
Mary, Mary, tell me why do you weep?
The drums along the Mohawk
Start up again where they left off
Pounding out the tangled rhythms of
The dangers of our modern times
And the child just born in Babylon
Could be the one we counted on
To heal the empty void inside
And drive the demons from our minds.
But do we really need a savior?
When we have the fourth day of July
Are we really just a generation
Lost in space and left to die?
Refrain: (2X)
Mary, Mary tell me how does the baby sleep?
Mary, Mary, tell me why do you weep?
Copyright 1986-2015 by mark Shepard, All Rights reserved. Used with permission.
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