"you don't have to cry" (stephen stills)

(fotografia de bruce wrighton, "man in yellow shirt/tie" (1987), retirado daqui)


"In the mornin' when you rise
Do you think of me and how you left me cryin'?
Are you thinkin' of telephones
And managers and where you got to be at noon?

You are living a reality
I left years ago, it quite nearly killed me
In the long run it will make you cry
Make you crazy and old before your time
And the difference between me and you
I won't argue right or wrong but I have time to cry my baby

You don't have to cry" (1)

crosby, stills & nash


(1) retirado do cd dos crosby, stills & nash, crosby, stills & nash (1969)

"ohio" (neil young)

(fotografia do massacre de ken state, 1970, quando a Ohio National Guard abriu fogo contra estudantes pacifistas, retirado daqui)


"Tin soldiers and Nixon's coming we're finally on our own
this summer I hear the drumming four dead in Ohio

Gotta get down to it soldiers are gunning us down
should of been done long ago
what if you knew her and found her dead on the ground
how can you run when you know?

Gotta get down to it soldiers are gunning us down
should of been done long ago
what if you knew her and found her dead on the ground
how can you run when you know?

Tin soldiers and Nixon's coming we're finally on our own
this summer I hear the drumming four dead in Ohio" (1)

crosby, stills, nash & young


(1) retirado do cd dos crosby, stills, nash & young, so far (1974) e daqui.

"wooden ships" (david crosby / stephen stills)

(quadro de henryk gotlib, "uliczka w korwalli", 1941)


"- If you smile at me, I will understand
`Cause that is something
everybody everywhere does in the same language.

- I can see by your coat, my friend,
you`re from the other side,
There`s just one thing I got to know,
Can you tell me please, why?

- Say, can I have some of your purple berries?
- Yes, I`ve been eating them for six or seven weeks now,
haven`t got sick once.
- Probably keep us both alive.

Wooden ships on the water, very free and easy,
Easy, you know the way it`s supposed to be,
Silver people on the shoreline, let us be,
Talkin` `bout very free and easy...

Horror grips us as we watch you die,
All we can do is echo your anguished cries,
Stare as all human feelings die,
We are leaving - you don`t need us.

Go, take your sister then, by the hand,
lead her away from this foreign land,
Far away, where we might laugh again,
We are leaving - you don`t need us.

And it`s a fair wind, blowin` warm,
Out t`south off my shoulder,
Guess I`ll set a course and go" (1)

crosby, stills & nash


(1) retirado do cd dos crosby, stills & nash, crosby, stills & nash (1969) e daqui.

"teach your children" (graham nash)

(fotografia de pedro isztin, "cesar", s/d)


"You who are on the road
Must have a code that you can live by
And so become yourself
Because the past is just a good bye.

Teach your children well,
Their father's hell did slowly go by,
And feed them on your dreams
The one they picked, the one you'll know by.

Don't you ever ask them why, if they told you, you would cry,
So just look at them and sigh and know they love you.

And you, of tender years,
Can't know the fears that your elders grew by,
And so please help them with your youth,
They seek the truth before they can die.

Can you hear and do you care and
Cant you see we must be free to
Teach your children what you believe in.
Make a world that we can live in.

Teach your parents well,
Their children's hell will slowly go by,
And feed them on your dreams
The one they picked, the one you'll know by.

Don't you ever ask them why, if they told you, you would cry,
So just look at them and sigh and know they love you." (1)

crosby, stills, nash & young


(1) retirado do cd da banda crosby, stills, nash & young, déjà vu (1970)

"guinnevere" (david crosby)

(fotografia de wynn bullock, "girl on beach", 1968)


"Guinnevere had green eyes
Like yours, mi'lady, like yours
When she'd walk down through the garden
In the morning after it rained

Peacocks wandered aimlessly
Underneath an orange tree
Why can't she see me?

Guinnevere drew pentagrams
Like yours, mi'lady, like yours
Late at night when she thought
That no one was watching at all
On the wall

She shall be free

As she turns her gaze
Down the slope to the harbor where I lay
Anchored for a day

Guinnevere had golden hair
Like yours, mi'lady, like yours
Streaming out when we'd ride
Through the warm wind down by the bay
Yesterday

Seagulls circle endlessly
I sing in silent harmony
We shall be free" (1)

crosby, stills & nash


(1) retirado do cd dos crosby, stills & nash, crosby, stills & nash (1969) e daqui