Hello and welcome back... Released in 1985 from N.Z musician 'Shona Laing', Glad I'm not a Kennedy made it to #2 in the music charts (N.Z)
Glad I'm not a Kennedy was from the album 'South'. Also on this album was the track 'Drive baby Drive', another fav of mine.
In 2013, Shona won a Legacy music award for her work.
SHONA LAING - GLAD I'M NOT A KENNEDY
LYRICS
Living on through politics
Body-guarded, heart in bits
A blue-eyed honesty
Indigo injury
The family tree is felled
Bereavement worn so well
Giving up on certainty
Wilderness society
Wearing the fame like a loaded gun
Tied up with a rosary
I'm glad I'm not a Kennedy
Imagine being a Kennedy
Rule without remedy
To watch your family die
The world loves a sacrifice
Prophets longing for the three
Honoring the tragedy
They hunger for the crime
The privilege to take a life
Wearing the fame like a loaded gun
Tied up with a rosary
Ooh, I'm glad I'm not a Kennedy, glad im not a Kennedy
And is not peace basically
A matter of human rights?
The right to live out our lives
Without fear of devastation?
The right to breathe air
As nature provided it?
The right of future generations
To a healthy existence?
Let us if we can step back from
The shadows of war and seek out
The way of peace
I love the look in your eyes
I can see your soul sometimes and we laugh
When we try too hard we stop and start
Oh imagine being a Kennedy
I'm glad I'm not a Kennedy
Wearing the fame like a loaded gun
Tied up with a rosary
I'm glad I'm not a Kennedy
Imagine being a Kennedy
Ooh I'm glad I'm not a Kennedy
The cost of freedom is always high,
Yet one path we shall never choose
That is the path of surrender or submission.
When a man's way please the lord,
The scriptures tell us,
He maketh even his enemies
To be at peace with him'.
We will not prematurely or unnecessarily
Risk the course of worldwide nuclear war
In which even the fruits of victory
Would be ashes in our mouths
Ashes in our mouths
Ashes in our mouths
Ashes in our mouths
SHONA LAING - DRIVE BABY DRIVE
LINKS
https://www.discogs.com/artist/297959-Shona-Laing
https://itunes.apple.com/nz/artist/shona-laing/id151977669
https://www.amazon.com/South-Shona-Laing/dp/B000000GPE
#ShonaLaing
#Electronic80s
Glad I'm not a Kennedy was from the album 'South'. Also on this album was the track 'Drive baby Drive', another fav of mine.
In 2013, Shona won a Legacy music award for her work.
SHONA LAING - GLAD I'M NOT A KENNEDY
LYRICS
Living on through politics
Body-guarded, heart in bits
A blue-eyed honesty
Indigo injury
The family tree is felled
Bereavement worn so well
Giving up on certainty
Wilderness society
Wearing the fame like a loaded gun
Tied up with a rosary
I'm glad I'm not a Kennedy
Imagine being a Kennedy
Rule without remedy
To watch your family die
The world loves a sacrifice
Prophets longing for the three
Honoring the tragedy
They hunger for the crime
The privilege to take a life
Wearing the fame like a loaded gun
Tied up with a rosary
Ooh, I'm glad I'm not a Kennedy, glad im not a Kennedy
And is not peace basically
A matter of human rights?
The right to live out our lives
Without fear of devastation?
The right to breathe air
As nature provided it?
The right of future generations
To a healthy existence?
Let us if we can step back from
The shadows of war and seek out
The way of peace
I love the look in your eyes
I can see your soul sometimes and we laugh
When we try too hard we stop and start
Oh imagine being a Kennedy
I'm glad I'm not a Kennedy
Wearing the fame like a loaded gun
Tied up with a rosary
I'm glad I'm not a Kennedy
Imagine being a Kennedy
Ooh I'm glad I'm not a Kennedy
The cost of freedom is always high,
Yet one path we shall never choose
That is the path of surrender or submission.
When a man's way please the lord,
The scriptures tell us,
He maketh even his enemies
To be at peace with him'.
We will not prematurely or unnecessarily
Risk the course of worldwide nuclear war
In which even the fruits of victory
Would be ashes in our mouths
Ashes in our mouths
Ashes in our mouths
Ashes in our mouths
SHONA LAING - DRIVE BABY DRIVE
LINKS
https://www.discogs.com/artist/297959-Shona-Laing
https://itunes.apple.com/nz/artist/shona-laing/id151977669
https://www.amazon.com/South-Shona-Laing/dp/B000000GPE
#ShonaLaing
#Electronic80s
