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...album's two most intense tracks, Cut It Away and Say It Isn 't True, are almost as simple as plain chant. Cut It Away ("Somebody cut away this desperate heart/ Cut it away before it tears my whole life apart") is a racked-up love song about the dissolution of Browne's marriage to onetime Model Lynne Sweeney. Say It Isn't True is a stone-simple antiwar song, throbbing with a synthesizer line that pulses away insistently like the red warning light flashing on a war-room console. Browne makes no apologies...
...them break your spirit. We will rise, never to fall again! From slave ship to championship! From the outhouse to the statehouse to the courthouse to the White House! We will march on! March on! March on! Our time has come!" The crowd cheered enthusiastically, breaking into the chant that follows Jackson at black and integrated gatherings almost everywhere these days: "Run, Jesse, run! Run, Jesse, run!" Jackson stepped back to the speaker's stand to acknowledge the ovation, flashing V signs with both hands...
...Jesse, run! Run, Jesse, run.The chants roll toward him, rumbling like a pent-up storm, rising to the rafters and the stained-glass portrait of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. With the practiced rhythms of preacher and pitchman, he launches his sermon on power. "There's a freedom train acoming," he intones. "But you got to be registered to ride." Amen! "Get on board! Get on board!" There is fire in his eyes, a pin in his starched collar, a finger in the air. "We can move from the slave ship to the championship! From the guttermost...
Jackson is in fact such a bugbear to many whites that he is sometimes a political liability. After the celebration of Harold Washington's primary victory in Chicago, at which Jackson planted himself on the podium and led an impolitic chant of "We want it all!", he was shooed away from the general election
...Listen to the innocent one," said a nearby powerbroker gently scoffing. "He asks when there is going to be a recovery." Pretty soon, other people in the crowd joined in with the chant--"When is the recovery? When is the recovery?" they shouted...