Why Must Our Eyes Always Be Turned Backwards

Annotation — Soul, Gospel, & Funk Songs

"Why Must Our Eyes Always Be Turned Backwards" (We Produce Records # XPS-1904) soul record. reference to south and north Vietnam Why our eyes must always be turned backwards... You still using that same old grudge, since the colour Of my skin and you still want to call me a boy But can't you see that I'm all percent man Now we ought to get it together, come on and lets Be friends, because the world was made for everyman... This time it's Pakistan and India, tell ya that They're at each others throats again North and South Vietnam, will they ever agree Unemployment rates are high worldwide, people are hungry.... Why our eyes must always be turned backwards... America the beautiful for amber waves of grain Over here in America people a fussing about the busing y'all Lord don't you let there be another ethica over here in America Over there in Isreal, that's what they call the holy land That's where Christianity was supposed to first began But they fighting, man, god damn, what you gonna do about it"

Annotation by Justin A. Brummer

About the artist

Lou Bond (real name Ronald Edward Lewis) was an American soul singer-songwriter who worked in Chicago and Memphis, recording for Chess and Fontana in the 1960s before being taken up at Stax Records' We Produce subsidiary by the producers Tom Nixon and Jo Bridges. His sole album, the self-titled 'Lou Bond', was issued on We Produce XPS-1904 in 1974, an orchestral Memphis soul record of protest ballads that was ignored on release and has since been much reissued, most prominently by Light in the Attic in 2010. "Why Must Our Eyes Always Be Turned Backwards" is the second track on side A, between…

Themes

Anti-War

In collections

Peace, Protest, & Anti-War Songs [War Years] · Soul, Gospel, & Funk Songs