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A Finger On The Button

from World On Fire by Lord Baldwin

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A Finger On The Button

The cold war’s hot as Hades today;
and everyone knows what it’s all about,
but diplomacy is nothing but useless
when nobody’s listening for a way out.
When someone said they thought they heard
that someone else might have said
something about a bomb or something
but then that someone might have been misled.
You gotta be hoping you’re not the guy
living on the wrong side of town
when there’s a finger on the button
just waiting to press down.

Russia, China, France the US and the Brits
have an agreement of non-perpetuity,
yeah, but Pakistan, India and Israel say
nuclear fission is their new ideology.
Syria, Iran and North Korea;
are not throwing into anyone else’s lot.
Nobody really knows beyond their own fortress walls
what the other guy has or hasn’t got.
There’s a wariness and anxiety
whether they’re wearing a smile or a frown,
when there’s a finger on the button
just waiting to press down.

Who is watching the watchmen,
to be certain things stay in check
especially when distant temper flairs
and an idiot wants to clear the deck?
Who is in charge of the one in charge?
What safety valve is there in play?
How do we avoid a “Final Destruction” move
that would take so many lives away?
We are all left to pray we’re not in sync
with some trigger-happy clown
with a finger on the button
just waiting to press down.

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from World On Fire, released December 24, 2013

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Lord Baldwin Olympia, Washington

Lord Baldwin has created 44 ALBUMS
between 1991 and 2001

Between 2011 and 2023, created, 23 ALBUMS

Published a 4-book series called, “Stepping Between The Ants”

A 4-book series called, “From The Lost Letters Sent” chronicling the first 44 albums' songs created between 1968 to 2001

As playwright, wrote a musical play (book) called;
““RESILIENT the Musical” A Web-Based Episodic Play & Story” ... more

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