Mike & The Mechanics - Silent Running Video

[jedi]

It's taken me a long time to find this video heck even the song!
I recall back in the 80s hearing this song but never really paying attention to the lyrics only remembering something about a gun in the cellar and not believe what the church or state say.

Well here is the video:
[ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ep7W89I_V_g[/ame]

and here are the lyrics
Take the children and yourself
And hide out in the cellar
By now the fighting will be close at hand
Don't believe the church and state
And everything they tell you
Believe in me, i'm with the high command

Can you hear me, can you hear me running?
Can you hear me running, can you hear me calling you?
Can you hear me, can you hear me running?
Can you hear me running, can you hear me calling you?

There's a gun and ammunition
Just inside the doorway
Use it only in emergency
Better you should pray to god
The father and the spirit
Will guide you and protect from up here

Can you hear me, can you hear me running?
Can you hear me running, can you hear me calling you?
Can you hear me, can you hear me running?Can you hear me running, can you hear me calling you?

Swear allegiance to the flag
Whatever flag they offer
Never hint at what you really feel
Teach the children quietly
For some day sons and daughters
Will rise up and fight while we stood still

Can you hear me, can you hear me running?
Can you hear me running, can you hear me calling you?
Can you hear me, can you hear me running?
Can you hear me running, can you hear me calling you?

Can you hear me running (can you hear me calling you?)
(can you hear me) hear me calling you?
(can you hear me running) hear me running babe?
(can you hear me running) hear me running?
Calling you, calling you
Mike and the Mechanics, "Silent Running"

The video is a bit odd but then again it's an 80s video but now that I'm older man do those lyrics now resonate even more especially with how our country is neck deep in debt, etc..

Figured this song with fit in this channel.
Stay safe out there folks.

 

[TREETOP]

I have this CD, it would make a good theme song.

 

[shibumiseeker]

Bits of this song have been in my sigfile in various places over the years. Since it first came out I've felt this song summed up pretty well how I feel about our government.

 

[spencer rifle]

Classic and a favorite. Kind of fits with Longbow's story.

 

[slackerisme]

At 1:38, the only argument I pray to God i have with my wife.

 

[The Bubba Effect]

In a similar vein:

"Life During Wartime" by The Talking Heads

Related:

[ame="http://youtu.be/xvaEJzoaYZk"]Copperhead Road[/ame] by Steve Earle

 

[shibumiseeker]

Copperhead Road by Steve Earle

Copperhead Road came out when I first bought my property, and the road to the top of my ridge I named Copperhead Road, though we only grow trees out here, not dope.

On that same album, "Johnny Come Lately" is one that chokes me up when I hear it too.

 

[miguel]

I like Mike and the Mechanics, but I ain't swearing allegiance to any old flag or waiting for the aliens to give the key to the gun cabinet to my boys. I prefer to be loud and proud!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8kB7OR161-U