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Take Courage

from Make a Map by Thinkspeak

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Written in 1988 the cold war still on, launch-on-warning, use'm or lose'em mentality in the driver's seat, nuclear holocaust ever-threatening. With the cold war ended the policy changed, right? Nope, still hair-trigger alert, launch on warning, both sides... how ca-razy is that? Even a small nuclear war is likely to trigger a nuclear winter meaning a near or complete end to our little experiement with consciousness here on planet earth. Better dead than red they used to say to keep us from questioning the insanity. There's that old saw, if your only tool is a hammer pretty soon everything starts looking like a nail.

lyrics

I wake up in the night afraid for my life
submarines of nuclear off every shore

chorus
Take courage take courage it's always at your hand
this life is framed by deep and peaceful sleep

2.
the torture masters in our pay should never work another day
whose children shall we subject to their knives - chorus

3.
while I'm awake on this planet I'll make a statement nothing grander
than we are one biosphere family - chorus

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from Make a Map, released October 2, 2012

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Thinkspeak Atlanta, Georgia

Tom Ferguson has been writing songs since 1969, all of which are collected in Songs, 1969-2018. It's coil-bound to nicely fit a music stand, available at lulu.com just search tom ferguson there.

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