A "Play" on Some of the Greatest Songs of Jackson Browne 5
PEACE
For Chris
(Written in 1996)




What is worth the lives sacrificed in the balance?

Who are we to judge who is to die and who is to live?

Where is our real compassion and true mercy for them?

How can we condemn others' even in "self-defense"?

Why do we rationalize what is not justifiable at all?



It is totally unacceptable that we justify what is not rational

And yet we consider the living of irrational lives to be normal.

We excuse the lies of our own "United States" government

And most of us love or ignore the evils our politicians commit.

The sky is yellow, blue, brown, and black with deterioration

And we allow big-business interests to fill our home with pollution.

Our ozone is being depleted, and will never, ever be restored

And we do pathetically little to put an end to this nefarious trend.

Yet we live with the status quo because of our misguided thought

And self deception that we are supposedly powerless to change it.



Why do we allow ourselves to become black and blue

With the losses we bring upon ourselves each and every day?

How do we continue to let our purported representatives

Have us believe that killing is justified to protect our freedoms?

When will True Peace overthrow murder in the name of so-called peace?