Title: Jackson Browne - Doctor My Eyes Source:
You Tube URL Source:http://youtube.com/watch?v=cJ08HUsEAfs Published:Aug 25, 2007 Author:Jackson Browne Post Date:2007-08-25 19:31:25 by Zipporah Ping List:*Music Club* Keywords:None Views:300 Comments:13
I can't keep up with what's been going on I think my heart must just be slowing down Among the human beings in their designer jeans Am I the only one who hears the screams And the strangled cries of lawyers in love
God sends his spaceships to America, the beautiful They land at six o'clock and there we are, the dutiful Eating from TV trays, tuned into to Happy Days
Waiting for World War III while Jesus slaves To the mating calls of lawyers in love
Last night I watched the news from Washington, the capitol The Russians escaped while we weren't watching them, like Russians do Now we've got all this room, we've even got the moon And I hear the U.S.S.R. will be open soon As vacation land for lawyers in love
This song established Jackson Browne as a major prophet.
The Soviet Union collapsed within a decade after he predicted it in 1983.
And teams of U.S. lawyers DID arrive at the Kremlin to show them how to "reorganize" their system. Basically, their advice to the drunk Yeltsin was to give everything away to the Harvard lawyers who represented their fellow Jewish oligarchs, the so-called Mafiya.
This song also reminds me I'm a lawyer in name only. I don't even own a three-piece suit.
If any of the photos of him at the above link are recent, he is holding up way better than most of his rock contemporaries. Of course he was as much a folk singer as a rocker, for much of his career.
Maybe he's smoking the same brand of pot as Willie Nelson, who hasn't aged discernibly in about 30 years. Of course, he looked like hell from previous abuse when he stopped aging. The pot can't reverse the damage already done.
My late father pushed me to go to law school. I only practiced law for a very short time. Once he passed away, I felt liberated to leave the profession I never really wanted to pursue.
I'll PM you the Web site of my company, which will give you an idea of my career. It's not as lucrative as being a lawyer would be, but there's a great deal of truth between the lines in Jackson's song (in most of his songs, in fact). Lawyering involves selling one's soul and, in many cases, I would say, actually losing the ability to love.
Lawyers only care about what's "legal"; not what's moral. I think when the history is written of the decline and fall of the American empire, a critical juncture in its destruction was reached when it reached a population of one million lawyers. This may have already happened.
I think this country qualifies on all three points. Therefore we are experiencing a catastrophic loss of liberty, peace and justice.
History proves it's very hard to get these back once they're gone. I'm glad I've lived probably two-thirds of my life already.
Thanks for the reply.. Id say your observation and from the 'inside' is true for many in fact maybe most but there are some who are principled and moral but they're not rich lawyers..
I so agree.. but I look at my kids who are grown now.. what do they have to look forward to?