Pittsburgh's G20 Soundtrack: #5

I sense the G20 event may take a harder edge soon -- which, in the wake of pointless police discrimination against scruffy lunchers in Mellon Park, would not bother me a bit -- and the soundtrack will change correspondingly. While we have enough order in the community to enable reflection and grace, however, it seems worthwhile to indulge.

Fresh and timely video, a 40-year-old lyric and timeless harmony combine to remind us that the children are watching (and that an essential part of teaching them is to refrain from killing them). With Jerry Garcia brilliantly breaking his pedal-steel cherry (in exchange for harmony lessons from the masters), David Crosby, Stephen Stills and Graham Nash contribute song #5 to the Pittsburgh G20 soundtrack (Infinonyvision, center column): Teach Your Children.

You who are on the road
Must have a code that you can live by
And so become yourself
Because the past is just a good-bye

Teach your children well
Their father's hell did slowly go by
And feed them on your dreams
The one they pick's the one you'll know by

Don't you ever ask them why
If they told you, you would cry
So just look at them and sigh
And know they love you

And you of tender years
(Can you hear and do you care and
Can't know the fears
(Can you see we
That your elders grew by
(Must be free to
And so please help
(Teach the children
Them with your youth
(To believe and
They seek the truth
(Make a world that
Before they can die
(We can live in)

Teach your parents well
The children's hell will slowly go by
And feed them on your dreams
The one they pick's the one you'll know by

Don't you ever ask them why
If they told you, you would cry
So just look at them and sigh
And know they love you