From the album "Poison Love", 1997
--words and music by Buddy & Julie Miller
from "The Farrago Sessions", 2006, LineLevel Music
Three dollar bombs a 100 thousand more Steps of a child and the ground explodes You can't clear one before another reloads To ratchet up the ante again. They're cheap and they're simple They're green and black They'll take you right down on a one way track We've gone so far now that we can't get back And we still won't stop this train Footfall of a soldier Footfall of a child They don't know the difference They're blind and mean and wild 100 Million and the wheel go round Lunch in Geneva and the deals go done We'll still have to fight a century from now The battle's of a long long war What do you with what's left behind What can you grow in the fields of mine What do you do when that's all you find you got When you get back home They're only made for terror They don't care who they harm, Three dollars each to make 'em 1000 to disarm Three dollar bombs a 100 thousand more Steps of a child and the ground explodes You can't clear one before another reloads To ratchet up the ante again. They're cheap and they're simple They're green and black They'll take you right down on a one way track We've gone so far now that we can't get back And we still won't turn around 100 million still in the ground Lunch in Geneva and the deals go down They'll still have to fight a century from now Battle of a long time war From China to Angola Cambodia where they laid With chips from Motorola Made in the USA. Three dollar bombs a 100 thousand more Steps of a child and the ground explodes You can't clear one before another reloads To ratchet up the ante again. They're cheap and they're simple They're green and black They'll take you right down on a one way track We've gone so far now that we can't get back And we still won't stop this train
100 MILLION LITTLE BOMBS (BUDDY & JULIE MILLER) FACT: IN THE BEST SENSE OF THE WORD, BUDDY MILLER IS A MONSTER! THE MAN'S VOICE AND GUITAR PLAYING TAKE ME TO PLACES VERY FEW CAN AND THEN HE EVEN GOES AND THROWS SOME GREAT SONGWRITING INTO THE EQUATION. SO, WHAT WE'VE GOT HERE IS A TRIPLE THREAT WHO IS MORE AUTHENTIC THAN DIRT! THIS TUNE, CO-WRITTEN WITH HIS WIFE (WHO IN HER OWN RIGHT IS AN AMAZING SONGWRITER) LOOKS AT THE CONTINUING PROBLEM OF THE INCREDIBLE NUMBER OF ACTIVE LAND MINES THAT ARE STILL SCATTERED AROUND THE GLOBE. JUST BECAUSE THEY'RE NOT IN KANSAS DOESN'T MEAN THEY'RE NOT A MAJOR PROBLEM THAT MUST BE ADDRESSED
MICHAEL STANLEY: VOCALS, ELECTRIC & ACOUSTIC GUITARS, BASS BOB PELANDER: PIANO & ORGAN RODNEY PSYKA: PERCUSSION TOMMY DOBECK: DRUMS