Steve Earle - Jerusalem

[agentP]

Hiho,
ich möchte allen, die mit amerikanischem Neo-Folk oder Neo-Country was anfangen kann unbedingt die neue Steve Earle CD Jerusalem ans Herz legen.
In den USA spaltet diese CD bereits die Hörerschaft und Mr. Earle scheint geeignet die Nachfolgeschaft von Johnny Cash anzutreten, was Anspruch und Kontroverse anbelangt. Aber folgende Texte spricht fast für sich:

John Walker's Blues
(Steve Earle)

I'm just an American boy raised on MTV
And I've seen all those kids in the soda pop ads
But none of 'em looked like me
So I started lookin' around for a light out of the dim
And the first thing I heard that made sense was the word
Of Mohammed, peace be upon him

chorus:
A shadu la ilaha illa Allah
There is no God but God

If my daddy could see me now – chains around my feet
He don't understand that sometimes a man
Has got to fight for what he believes
And I believe God is great, all praise due to him
And if I should die, I'll rise up to the sky
Just like Jesus, peace be upon him

chorus

We came to fight the Jihad and our hearts were pure and strong
As death filled the air, we all offered up prayers
And prepared for our martyrdom
But Allah had some other plan, some secret not revealed
Now they're draggin' me back with my head in a sack
To the land of the infidel

A shadu la ilaha illa Allah
A shadu la ilaha illa Allah

Für alle dies schon wieder vergessen haben: John Walker (Lindh) ist der "amerikanische Taliban", der in Afghanistan gefangen wurde.

Conspiracy Theory
(Steve Earle)

What if I told you it was done with mirrors
What if I showed you it was all a lie
Better be careful, someone might hear ya
The walls have ears and the sky has eyes
What if I said you were only dreamin'
What you wanna bet that all you gotta do
Is open up your eyes and you will wake up screamin'
When you realize that it's all come true

chorus
Hush, now don't you believe it
Cover your head and close your eyes
Now, take it or leave it
Go back to bed
Now don't you cry

Half a million soldiers fly across the water
One in ten are never comin' back again
Fifty thousand sons who never grew to fathers
Don't you ever wonder who they might have been
What if you could've been there on that day in Dallas
What if you could wrestle back the hands of time
Maybe somethin' could've been done in Memphis
We wouldn't be livin' in a dream that's died

chorus

Go on and tell yourself again there are no secrets
Go on and tell yourself that you don't want to know
It's best that you believe that you don't hear the footsteps
That follow you around no matter where you go
Maybe you were thinkin' that it didn't matter
Maybe you believed nobody else would care
But once you've added every little lie together
You finally find the truth was always waiting there

 

[fArdem]

Für alle dies schon wieder vergessen haben: John Walker ist der "amerikanische Taliban", der in Afghanistan gefangen wurde.

erzähl mal mehr von ihm.. wer ist das?


muss zugeben das ich die letzten monate etwas in meiner privaten leben vertieft war das ich viel zu wenig mitbekam

 

[agentP]

Öhm, eigentlich erzähl ich ja gerne was, aber in dem Fall ist es in jedem Fall einfacher Du googelst nach "John Walker Lindh". Da prasselts Links auf englisch und deutsch, daß es eine wahre Freude ist.