As he walked by Billy stuck his knife into his pocket
Took a breath and let him pass
"Galaxy Song," Eric Idle
"Gallop," Lemons Are Louder Than Rocks
"Galveston Bay," Bruce Springsteen
"The Game," Echo and the Bunnymen
"Gangsters Paradise," Off the Beat
"Gangster's Paradise," Coolio
"Garageland," The Clash
"Garden of Serenity," The Ramones
"Gardening at Night," R.E.M.
The video linked above for Coolio's "Gangsta's Paradise" is the live performance from the 1995 Billboard Awards. LV and Stevie show up to take that song to church. (And I'd be remiss if I didn't also link to this, Weird Al's "Amish Paradise.")
The lyrics at the top there are from Springsteen's "Galveston Bay," a heartbreaking individual story of that transcendent thing, whatever it is — empathy, grace — that could make liberation and restoration possible for the angry, enslaved and voluntarily brutish who have chosen, for now, to prefer the cheap thrills peddled by Beck, Palin, Dobbs, et. al. to the possibility of anything better.
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