From the recording These Are the Promises
A protest song of sorts. Steeped in both recent and long past history. The wars change, but its effects are always the same. We just can't seem to learn our lesson, generation after generation.
Bob McKenzie: Vocals
Don Egeberg: Drums
Dave Vernon: Bass Guitar
Matt Bannick: Electric & Acoustic Guitar
Engineered and Co-Produced by Kent Vernon
Arranged and Co-Produced by the Swell Crusade
Lyrics
When the message hit the door.
Your brother, sent off to war.
His childhood memory, we adore.
Forevermore.
Shine on
Shine on
Shine on
Then the message hits the door.
Your brother, he’s caught in war.
Now you don't see him anymore.
What was this fight even for?
Shine on
Shine on
Shine on
Then the message hit the door.
Your brother, came back from War.
Now he's not speaking anymore.
The stench we all ignore.
Shine on
Shine on