Under The Heat

Like a snap of the fingers It was just that quick The building had fallen And shattered and Melted under the heat We found a buddy Who was covered in blood He kept trying to get up and look Lay down, lay down, lay down marine Under the heat All our lives changing Under the heat "Take your cameras and get out of here" "Forget it" said the C.O. "You're out of line, you're angry, I'm angry, they're angry, just do the job." Under the heat We stopped to listen for voices And then we'd dig with Whatever we had Listen and dig, listen and dig, Listen and dig Under the heat All our lives changing Under the heat Reaching through this Curtain of fear My arms are stretched Beyond the limit I take the heat from Streaming tears To bear the cold and Walk out in it Walk out in it My plans for the future Are a frozen picture That has fallen and Shattered and melted Under the heat All our lives changing Under the heat --Papers fluttered in the gentle October breeze and a page from a pocket-sized Bible lay on the ground. It was open to the book of Psalms. The passage said, "For they do not talk of peace, but against the quiet ones of the land they plot treacharies..." From the San Fransisco Chronicle Monday, October 24, 1983