What Are You Listening To?

[CRAZY-HORSE]

1927  "...ish"  1988

Aussie soft rock band...
not my cd by a work colleague.
one of their singles was played on the radio at work a couple of days ago and i mentioned that i loved the song but never purchased anything by them back in the day but wished i had.
anyway, one of my colleagues, Lynne, said she had one of their cds in her car and i could borrow it, so i did...
so this is their debut album of four and it sounds as good as i thought it would be,
solid catchy well written soft rock songs on here and well worth borrowing, now to see if i can buy some of their material...
album reached 5x platinum here and had two top 10 singles and another two top 20 hits to boot...
I LOVE THIS ALBUM

favourite, the fourth single, 
i cant decide whether this is an anti-war song, a tribute to those who serve or simply a combination of both but either way, a great tune IMO





Remember the times when we were kids
Playing war games in your yard
Everybody had to be a hero
And get one in the heart
Night would fall and we'd call a truce
And all go home.


Years went by we were average guys
Playing life by the rule of thumb
Till a man came on the TV
Talking 'bout war like he wanted one
He said "Everybody put your backs to the wall
Till your numbers called".

You've gotta go and be a hero
I've got a new game for all you boys
Its war without a choice
Compulsory hero
Just try and make it home.

Grandpa heard the call to all
For a war to end all wars
And your dad went off to do his bit
And he had to go one more
You've really got no say in it
You have to fight
And thats the law.

You've gotta go and be a hero
They made a law you had to go fight
One more crazy war
Compulsory hero
Just try and make it home.

So all that had to be heroes
Went off to do their chores
None of them really wouldn't of known
How far a bloody war goes
They're dying to make it home.

Then I think back on all those times
Playing war games in your yard
Everybody had to be a hero
Back then that wasn't hard
Night would fall on the battle zone
And we could all go home.

You had to go and be a hero
They made a law that you had to go and fight
One more crazy war
Compulsory hero
Just try and make it home
Just try and make it home
But whose gonna make it home


album, after a couple of listens, is just as good as i thought it would be