Album: Croz (2014)

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• His open eyes
  At first light
  We see
  An echo of his mothers smile
  
  At her breast
  His sister pressed
  Outside
  The sun begins to warm the ancient tile
  
  They came that day, hollow men
  Agents of a god they could not know
  A mile above, distant eyes
  Miss desperate pleas that pictures could not show
  The morning falling
  
  A shackle snaps
  Beneath cold wings
  Below
  The shepherd is pulled toward home
  
  The shadow falls
  A falcon calls
  Below
  His world becomes a mountain of stone
  
  They came that day, empty men
  Agents of a god they'll never know
  High above, those eyes
  See what seems to be on screens that glow
  The morning falling
  
  His eyes can see
  But his mind can't hold
  What he has seen
  The absence of the lives they used to live
  
  A world away
  The trigger is pulled
  And here there is no reason to forgive Writer/s: David Crosby, James Raymond
  Publisher: Wixen Music Publishing
  Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

Comments: 2

• Mark from Los Angeles, CaThis is a hauntingly beautiful song and a damning indictment of our government's short-sighted anti-terrorism campaign. By attacking innocent civilians with unmanned drones, we're not only engaging in conduct that's equally reprehensible to the madness we claim to be fighting, but we all but guarantee the creation of a new generation of anti-American zealots in troubled lands abroad.
• Mark from Los Angeles, CaCroz introduced this song at one of the five sold-out shows he recently did at the Troubadour in Los Angeles by saying it was likely to get him in trouble with the U.S. government, but, as he pointed out, that was nothing new. He explained that the song grew out of a conversation he'd had with his son, James Raymond. Croz had a picture in his mind of an Afghan family raising goats and barely getting by. The family was eventually visited by a group of Taliban soldiers who tried to recruit them, but they refused to join because it took all their energy just to survive and tend to their small herd. Miles overhead, American drones were tracking the Taliban recruiters, and, not knowing anything of the family's refusal, the agents responsible for the drones used them to unleash a vicious attack on the poor family below.

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