Oh, a storm is threat’ning
My very life today
If I don’t get some shelter
Oh yeah, I’m gonna fade away
War, children, it’s just a shot away
It’s just a shot away
War, children, it’s just a shot away
It’s just a shot away
Ooh, see the fire is sweepin’
Our very street today
Burns like a red coal carpet
Mad bull lost it’s way
War, children, it’s just a shot away
It’s just a shot away
War, children, it’s just a shot away
It’s just a shot away
Rape, murder!
It’s just a shot away
It’s just a shot away
Rape, murder!
It’s just a shot away
It’s just a shot away
Rape, murder!
It’s just a shot away
It’s just a shot away
The floods is threat’ning
My very life today
Gimme, gimme shelter
Or I’m gonna fade away
War, children, it’s just a shot away
It’s just a shot away
It’s just a shot away
It’s just a shot away
It’s just a shot away
I tell you love, sister, it’s just a kiss away
It’s just a kiss away
It’s just a kiss away
It’s just a kiss away
It’s just a kiss away
Kiss away, kiss away
Notes: Tom K. rightly asks where my post on the tragedy in the south is. But what is there to say? Sometimes life does indeed imitate the darkest art, so I've posted the lyrics above. I'm on vacation this week on the north shore of Puerto Rico, surrounded by sweet, clear water - thankful for my children, my wife, my family, my friends, my work, my home, and for words themselves. The contrast between where I am now, and what is happening in the south cannot be greater. God I love New Orleans. Will it rebuild: yes of course, for it is a cultural phenomenon, not a physical one (great buildings aside). Does it seem that our government is extremely slow? Is our homeland defense - our National Guard - stretched too thin? Didn't we used to be better than this in a crisis? Please post thoughts.
