Tuesday, June 14, 2011

TWO FOR TUESDAY


Not every song that will be featured here will be what is generally considered as being “Christian” in the eyes of this world. For some will be anguished cries from the pit of despair, and others will be quite obviously ferverent rants of rebellion. Nonetheless, be assured that they will all be of our Heavenly Father (in one way or another) and I hope that you have been given ears to hear the message.


Alice’s Restaurant
Arlo Guthrie
You can get anything you want
At Alice’s Restaurant
You can get anything you want
At Alice’s Restaurant
Walk right in
It’s around the back
Just a half a mile
From the railroad track
You can get anything you want
At Alice’s Restaurant

NOTE: Be assured that there is more to this song than just what I have included here. For he is not repeating the same chorus for 22 minutes, give or take several seconds. Ah, but the rest of it is a narrative, which I figured was too much to include. Granted, it may have more to do with laziness than anything else, but I’m going to stick with not typing it all out as being an editorial decision. Nonetheless, I hope you will want to listen to it all. If you haven’t heard it before, you are in for a real treat, and if you have heard it before, you already know what a treat this “song” is.


When A Soldier Makes It Home
Arlo Guthrie
Halfway around the world tonight
In a strange and foreign land
A soldier packs his memories
As he leaves Afghanistan
And back home they don’t know too much
There’s just no way to tell
I guess you had to be there
For to know that war was hell

And there won’t be any victory parades
For those that’s coming back
They’ll fly them in at midnight
And unload the body sacks
And the living will be walking down
A long and lonely road
Because nobody seems to care these days
When a soldier makes it home

They’ll say it wasn’t easy
Just another job well done
As the government in Kabul falls
To the sounds of rebel guns
And the faces of the comrades
Being blown out of the sky
Leaves you bitter with the feeling
That they didn’t have to die

And there won’t be any victory parades
For those that’s coming back
They’ll fly them in at midnight
And unload the body sacks
And the living will be walking down
A long and lonely road
Because nobody seems to care these days
When a soldier makes it home

Halfway around the world tonight
In a strange and foreign land
A soldier unpacks memories
That he saved from Vietnam
Back home they didn’t know too much
There was just no way to tell
I guess you had to be there
For to know that war was Hell

And there wasn’t any big parades
For those that made it back
They flew them in at midnight
And unloaded all the sacks
And the living were left walking down
A long and lonely road
Because nobody seemed to care back then
When a soldier made it home

The night is coming quickly
And the stars are on their way
As I stare into the evening
Looking for the words to say
That I saw the lonely soldier
Just a boy that’s far from home
And I saw that I was just like him
While upon this earth I roam

And there may not be any big parades
If I ever make it back
As I come home undercover
Through a world that can’t keep track
Of the heroes who have fallen
Let alone the ones who won’t
Which is why nobody seems to care
When a soldier makes it home

Lyrics From: [elyrics.net]

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4 comments:

  1. For some reason I could barely hear these videos. I'm on my laptop and the volume never gets very loud. I loved the lyrics for that second one though

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  2. Thanks for stopping by again, my dear Ann!!! It may have been just a bad connection at the time. For both of these are plenty loud enough at only 25% through my headphones. I know that the second video was acting up when I went to edit the lyrics. For video part would start and stop while the audio portion keep going just fine.

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  3. Powerful songs, thanks for introducing Arlo to me.

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  4. Thanks for stopping by again, my dear Ryan!!! I am really glad you liked these. My favorite song by him will be coming up Thursday.

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