Off of wonderland with Jackson Browne @ myDiary

'Eye-lashing Paradise since the Sixties'

It was easy for me up so high in my tree: living off of Wonderland; living with an unknown band waiting there for Everyman ~~~

There was change in the air: it was love everywhere living of Wonderland; ankle deep in contraband working on a life unplanned ~~~

Didn't we believe in love? Didn't we believe in giving it away? That didn't really leave us with the love to find our way after JFK, RFK & MLK?!

Do you feel it today? Love is still on the way coming over Wonderland: the world is in your open hand, once again it's at your command!

Didn't we believe in love?
Didn't we believe that love would carry on?
Wouldn't we receive enough if we could just believe in one another
As much as we believed in John ~~~

'The Drums of War'

Roll out the drums of war: roll up the cover of the killing floor; roll out the drums of war & let's speak of things worth fighting for ...

Roll out the drums of war! Time comes when everything you ever thought you knew comes crashing down & flames
rise up in front of you ... Roll out the drums of war: roll back the freedoms that we struggled for:
what were those freedoms for?

Let's not talk about it anymore: roll out the drums of war ... Whatever you believe the necessary course to be depends on who you tryouts to identify the enemy! Who beats the drums for war? Even before the peace is lost: who are the profits for?
And who are they who bear the cost when a country takes the low road to war ...

Who gives the orders, orders to torture? Who gets to no bid contract the future? Who lies, then bombs, then calls it an error?

Who makes fortunes from fighting terror? Who is the enemy trying to crush us? Who is the enemy of truth and justice?

Who is the enemy of peace and freedom? Where are the courts, now when we need them? Why is impeachment not on the table?
We better stop them while we are able: roll out the drums of war ...

Whatever you believe the necessary corse to be depends on who you trust to identify the enemy: Who took this country to war?
Long before the peace was lost: Who are the profits for? And who are they who bear the cost: Who lay down their lives?

And who will live with the sacrifice of our best & brightest hopes,
The flower of our youth,
Of freedom, and
The truth?