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Wild West

by Jim Balfour

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The land of the free and the home of the brave
Brainwashing begins at an early age
Selling freedom and equality, myths become reality
Saying anyone can make if they try
Claiming people at the top, from their hard work should never fly, ‘cuz it’s a lie
It’s illusion, delusion and pretense living in the wild, wild west, the wild, wild west

Stick a flag in the ground and believe you discovered it
Slaughter the people who first lived here
Brought in slaves, for no cost labour
And hanged anyone who ran to freedom
And you don’t even see the irony

Cover your heart with an anthem of war and believe you are acting in defense
You’re always at war, even with yourselves in the military industrial complex
Conquer poor countries, steal their resources, play puppets with their lives
If they oppose call them terrorists or communists, and oh yes, none are white
It’s illusion, delusion and pretense...

Poverty and punishment, a culture of violence where everyone needs protection
The quickest draw and machine gun wins, it’s a human disconnection
The ok corral is in your schools, build walls and arm fools
Hold tight to your guns to fight tyranny, except one problem, shot the tyranny is you, the tyranny is you

Keys

You believe others don’t adapt to your superior ways. So you blame them for their lives
You hate public health and education, government and taxes you despise
You tell them to get over it, pay their own way so your power is guaranteed
You own the machinery that keeps the system moving to continue with your greed

Promote Adolf, to fill your pockets create a diversion for your pleasure
Subvert government, take your money to places with sweat shop labour
You have no shame, blaming those countries, for the loss of local jobs
Find scapegoats, with immigrants, and even plan, to build a wall
Ignorance is a virtue when wrapped in a flag and the working white poor, do your dirty work for you,
Dirty work for you
It’s illusion, delusion and pretense...

Entertain the masses with modern day gladiators and go look! They can get wealthy
Just work hard, follow the rules, and oh yeah, don’t protest and don’t lose, or get eaten by lions
‘cuz you’re lucky, to be living in the wild, wild west
The wild, wild west

The history, of ownership of land ensures segregated neighbourhoods
You name call, to keep people down, no better than playground bullies
You claim to be the greatest country in the world, yet know nothing of other countries, how does that work? How does that work?
It’s illusion, delusion...

Bridge:
You can only sleep in one bed at a time, you can only drive one car, you can only live in one house at a time, a private jet, private bar?

You got freedum dum to control the races
Freedom to make them fight one another
Freedom, police push them around
Freedom, to keep women down
Freedom, to care only about yourself, yeah, only about yourself

Guitar

Out of this chaos, things must get better
People only want to live in peace, be safe and healthy
Own your history, define equality, face reality, give people a chance, show the children love, make sure they’re taken care of, spread the wealth around, make it a total community dance, a community dance

This is hard work, sisters and brothers. To learn the meaning of freedom is to respect, and care for each other, care about each other
You need (shot) public health care for everyone, you need (shot) gun control to make people feel safe, you need (shot) professional police, so pay your taxes, let (shot) go of john wayne, stop living in the wild west, the wild wild west

Illusion

And if you continue down this crazy path, i gotta say that maxwell smart did a better job of managing chaos

(chaotic band crash)

credits

released October 8, 2020
Jim Balfour: Vocals, lyrics

Recorded at: ‘Randy Woods Studio’, Saskatoon, Canada, Randy Woods, Engineer. All songs mixed and mastered at ‘Randy Woods Studio’.

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Jim Balfour Saskatoon, Saskatchewan

Jim began writing songs with Collin Reid in Jamaica and recorded “In Jamaica” and “Breathe” in Jamaica and Saskatoon. Just before Covid hit, he was sitting at the piano with lyrics, developing “feels” for songs and many new ideas just flowed. He found that the lyrics and feel led to finding an appropriate musical genre for each song, and that is how the song diversity of “Collage” occurred. ... more

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