Our Lives Our Time
2015 · Ruff Shod RS20151 · Boston, Massachusetts
- Artist
- Chadwick Stokes
- Title
- Our Lives Our Time
- Release
- The Horse Comanche
- Year
- 2015
- Label
- Ruff Shod # RS20151
- Format
- LP · Album
- Language
- English
- Country
- Boston, Massachusetts, USA
- Songwriter
- Chadwick Stokes
- Genre
- Singer Songwriter · Folk Rock
- Primary theme
- Post-War
Annotation — My Lai & Lt. William Calley Songs
- "Our Lives Our Time" - Singer/songwriter. - Reference to My Lai massacre and Hugh Thompson.
Annotation by Justin A. Brummer
Lyrics
English: It was fight night and the price fighter got cut like in a knife fight / It was all over the highlights 'cuz he got hit by a hard right /Saw stars like light bright, couldn't see any sight line, started this sky dive from the high life like Pele playing jai-lai / Shouted mayday, it was hay-day in the pell-mell of the melee / His coroner was getting' a pay day, needed Thompson from My Lai, turned his guns on his own guys, but it wasn't Molotovs and mai-tais, just AKs and white lies
Notes
Stokes describes the song as a protest at contemporary US politics (AllMusic).
About the artist
Chadwick Stokes Urmston, born 26 February 1976 in Boston, Massachusetts; frontman of Dispatch and State Radio, co-founder of the nonprofits Calling All Crows and the Elias Fund; "The Horse Comanche" (2015) was produced largely by Brian Deck and Sam Beam. [Source: Wikipedia]