Miel Noir

https://mielnoir.bandcamp.com http://www.nmia.com/~thermite/ Performed by Marcel P. of Miel Noir (vocals, bass) and Nicholas Tesluk of Changes (vocals, guitar). Written by Jackson Browne. Released on his album of the same name in 1986. Mixed and produced at Dungeon Studio, Rhenania by Marcel P. https://www.facebook.com/DungeonStudioRhenania Video by Steve of Smorg Magazine https://www.facebook.com/SmorgMagazine This cover was recorded half a year after the release of the collaboration album “Defiance” by Miel Noir & Changes. We wanted to make more music together and we decided that after a full-length album and a bonus EP with original music there was “artistic space” for a cover song. We turned Jackson Browne’s “Lives in the Balance” into one of our own and the world suffering multiple wars this year makes the choice pretty obvious. There was a time (up till the 90ies and early 00s) when it was okay to write about the puppet masters, the money-men, the manipulators behind the scenes who pull the strings of war. Nowadays, you’ll get the label “conspiracy theorist” thrown at you by the usual liars. Jackson Browne had the right words in 1986: “I want to know who the men in the shadows are I want to hear somebody asking them why They can't be counted on to tell us Who our enemies are But they're never the ones to fight and to die” Those men are still around. And by framing the investigative journalists, sceptics and truth-seekers as “conspiracy theorists” you are helping them… either as a willing participant or an unwilling, but useful idiot.