Ed Murrow (Should Be Here With Us Tonight)

Steve Skaith / Mike Jones

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There’s a film of dust on Tripoli
But nothings settled yet
No nothings settled yet
Oh we shouldn’t waste our sympathy
They deserve all that they get said this man
Who had himself been pulled out of a wreckage quite recently
Who had booked into a bombsite
But held onto his spite

Ed Murrow should be here tonight
Ed Murrow should be here tonight

In the endless round of hostages
Someone’s playing fast and loose
Someone’s playing fast and loose

Those being held must wonder what the message is
It is a hard one to deduce
Of being locked-up gets to pay for some killing out in southern Honduous
There’s a puzzle in the twilight
Of just who they would indite
Ed Murrow should be here tonight
Ed Murrow should be here tonight

On those new small screens on every script he’d write
Ed Murrow should be here tonight
Seems the news today is a way to separate the game shows
Ed Murrow made it more
He helped America live up to Getisburg
With just a microphone while London burned

On those new small screens with every script he’d write
The relentless theme that might is never right
Ed Murrow should be here tonight
Ed Murrow should be here tonight

On the new small screens with every script he’d write
Ed Murrow should be here tonight
There’s a puzzle in the twilight of who they would indite

Ed Murrow
Ed Murrow