Requiem For The Masses

[1monster]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J-Gdfe-Glxc&mode=related&search=

Incredibly beautiful protest song by The Association (sung on the SMOTHERS BROTHERS SHOW.

I was always a big fan of The Association, but I'd never heard this song before.

Requiem For The Masses

(Terry Kirkman)
Requiem aeternam, requiem aeternam
Mama, mama, forget your pies
Have faith they won't get cold
And turn your eyes to the bloodshot sky

Your flag is flying full
At half mast, for the matadors
Who turned their backs to please the crowd
And all fell before the bull

Red was the color of his blood flowing thin
Pallid white was the color of his lifeless skin
Blue was the color of the morning sky
He saw looking up from the ground where he died
It was the last thing ever seen by him
Kyrie Eleison
Mama, mama, forget your pies
Have faith they won't get cold
And turn your eyes to the bloodshot sky

Your flag is flying full
At half mast, for the matadors
Who turned their backs to please the crowd
And fell before the bull

Black and white were the figures that recorded him
Black and white was the newsprint he was mentioned in
Black and white was the question that so bothered him
He never asked, he was taught not to ask
BUt was on his lips as they buried him

Rex tremendae majestatis
Requiem aeternam, Requiem aeternam

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

1. Wow, I'd forgotten how much I liked that song.

I still have the album (LP) it's from -- and I remember listening to it during another stupid, senseless war.

[1monster]

3. I wonder if it is available on Amazon? I'd love to have it. n/t

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

4. It's on iTunes.

I think I'll have to add it to my iPod.

[hobbit709]

2. That was burned into my memory back then

And it still applies

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

5. Check this out: The more things change, the more they stay the same...

"Requiem for the Masses was the flip side of The Association's number one single Never My Love. In his description of Requiem Kirkman told the students: "Program directors and disc jockeys found it just a little more relevant to the times and turned the record over and started treating the song like an 'A' side. Before long about 12 significant markets had begun doing the same thing. That's when the Nixon White House made a phone call to Warner Bros. Records. They asked the label to ignore the market demand to treat the record like a hit single, meaning do nothing to promote the idea. Warner Bros., already having a success with 'Never My Love', complied with the government's wishes and that was that."

http://www.shs.d211.org/music/choir/terrykirkman.htm

[1monster]

6. Yup. I just read that when I was putting someone straight on YouTube who didn't

believe that this was a song about war, and the Vietnam war specifically.