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Freeze Frame Truth

from Voices from the Other Side by Sandy Cash

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Reporting from a war zone - from any war zone - always crops some inconvenient facts out of the picture to follow a certain narrative. Here's a meditation on how it works in my home country of Israel, to the detriment of all sides.

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A moment in time
An angle of sight
Background blurred out
Picture cropped tight
A directing hand
And an innocent mind
Make a freeze frame truth
Of a dangerous kind

She’s a two-bit extra in this wartime show
As the sun beats on her windshield in a line so slow
Soldier’s just a kid but his face is hard
As he pops her trunk, checks her ID card
He’s just 19 and he’d rather be
Maybe traveling, or starting university
His ceramic vest could make a grown man melt
In six hour shifts spent searching for the next bomb belt

CHORUS

He was eight years old when the roadblock to peace
Was the bombs going off more than once a week
“Now” may be now, “then” may be then
But his job is to make sure it doesn’t happen again
That driver in line, she’s a victim too
Of the fear of what will happen if something slips through
Facts slip through the cracks and they make no sound
While the camera shoots and we all fall down

A simple temptation, a summary of sin
But tell me whose stories will you let in?

CHORUS

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from Voices from the Other Side, released January 1, 2012
Words and music © Sandy Cash, Bud-Man Music, BMI

Guitar: Lazer Lloyd

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Sandy Cash Israel

From the Midwest to the Middle East, American-born singer-songwriter Sandy Cash is a musical storyteller whose thoughtful – and theatrical – performance style is rooted in the songs on which she grew up back in her native Detroit.

Sandy draws on history and present-day politics, while exploring themes such as the sustaining love of family, a commitment to community, and a healthy sense of humor.
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