Former MEGADETH Guitarist JEFF YOUNG Releases 'Peace' Song

April 21, 2007

Former MEGADETH guitarist Jeff Young has uploaded a song entitled "Peace" from his "...Lost Notes from Los Angeles" project (featuring Debby Holiday on vocals) in honor of the innocent victims of the tragic and senseless events that transpired at Virginia Tech just days ago.

Commented Young: "I wrote this track in 15 minutes after turning on the TV and witnessing the beginnings of the 1992 Los Angeles riots — yet another senseless and haunting event in our 'American history.' Over the years, friends and colleagues that have heard this track have urged me to 'get it out there.' It seems that now is as good a time as any."

Listen to the track at this location.

Peace (words & music by Jeff Young)

A mother's son sees the world around him
Innocence in his eyes
The silence inside him
Takes in scenes of life
Sees it all through the mind of a picture screen
What to think
How to feel
It's all been programmed endlessly
Flick the switch
Turn the dial
If you've got the time
Enough to lose your mind

Now it only numbs his senses (all he knows you showed him)
Escape is his reality (real life fades away)
The only peace he finds
From inside
Makes it alright

When he crawls through the window
Steps beyond the rising sun
East of Eden
Through the mirrors of his mind
Peace for everyone

A father cries for the child beside him
The little boy lost inside
The voices around him call
but still he hides deaf & blind
Desensitized from the hate outside
So afraid
Now he's safe in a place that never lies
Where he's brave and there's freedom all around him
That's what it's all about

Now it only numbs his senses (all he knows you showed him)
Escape is his reality (real life fades away)
The only peace he finds from inside
Makes it alright

When he crawls through the window
Steps beyond the rising sun
East of eden
Through the mirrors of his mind
Peace for everyone

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