| This is my most popular song, and probably my favorite. It has some of my best guitar work, and I played at the Nov. 3rd Peace Rally on Boston Common, in front of more than 15,000 people. It was one of the first songs I ever wrote. Listen to the words, feel the music, and act. |
Story Behind the Song
I wrote this song on the day that the United States began its bombing campaign in Afghanistan. The bombing campaign that killed more than 3,764 innocent civilians, which is more than died on September the 11th.
Lyrics
Everybody’s talking on the thoroughfare,
‘Bout, “over here” and “over there”
But there must be something that I just don’t see,
Because these two places look the same to me.
(Chorus)
We all believe in something we can’t prove to be true, and
We’ve been told to hate the “over there’s” so we do, but
Over in that land of recurring despair,
They tell their kids the same thing over there, that
We’re the cause of their endless nightmare, but
That’s no different over here.
We say that they’ve gone and stepped on us,
I hear it every day when I watch the news.
But we’re too busy, blind and studious,
To check beneath the bottoms of our own damn shoes,
(Chorus)
Over in that place of moral disrepair,
Everything is run by some millionaire, and
There’s so much fighting but nobody cares, but
That’s no different over here
We’ve already killed for what we know is right,
We can determine everything and its worth,
And we can say there should be day where there was night,
Because we’ve become the gods of the earth.
(Chorus)
And over there there’s a grisly sight,
Innocent children being forced to fight,
Well I’m almost eighteen, they could draft me tonight,
It’s no different over here,
And over in that land where nothing’s the same,
There’s a little boy who’s just learnin’ the game,
Doesn’t know where his Dad is, but he knows who to blame
And that’s no different over here.
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