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Look Both Ways​/​Rise and Go

by The Crossing

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Six men trapped by circumstance In the bleak and bitter cold Each one possessed a stick of wood Or so the story's told Their dying fire in need of logs The first one held his back For of the faces 'round the fire He noticed one man black The next one sitting 'cross the way Saw one not of his church And couldn't bring himself to give The fire his stick of birch The third one sat in tattered clothes And gave his coat a hitch Why should his log be put to use To warm the idle rich? The rich man just sat back and thought Of all he had in store And how to keep what he had earned From the lazy poor And the black man's face bespoke revenge As the fire passed from his sight All he saw in his stick of wood Was a chance to spite the white The last man of this group Did nought except for gain Giving only to those who gave Was how he played the game Their logs frozen in the their hands Was proof of human sin They didn't die from cold without They died from cold within
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released June 1, 1990

"Look both ways Rise and Go" was recorded may of 1988 in our practice studio at "Maggie" (a four-story apartment building in Chicago owned by Jesus People USA, our community). Ed Bialach engineered. We put together an "LBW" for our fans at Cornerstone Festival; we manufactured 100 cassettes, pretty sure that would get us by. We ended up taking orders for a hundred more tapes at the festival!

"Rise And Go" grew out of attempts to capture a "live" sound in a recording. We taped a few concerts, but technology was not our strong suit, and in 1990 we ended up at Tone Zone Recording. Roger Heiss recorded us direct to DAT.

Design and layout by Hugo Thysse/Cornerstone Graphics.
Photography by Tom Wray and Terry Wheeler.

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The Crossing Chicago

The Crossing is a talented group of musicians firmly rooted in the traditional celtic music featuring bagpipes, whistles, fiddle, cello and harp among their many instruments. They blend original songs with traditional Irish and Scottish jigs and reels as well as atmospheric ballads. With their songs they get you thinking while their instrumentals get your feet moving. ... more

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