Find The Cost Of Freedom

[Imogen Petrusky]

Thissong was written during the vietnam war. Part salute to Soldier, and part protest that young men were dying. Having lost family in the military, I used these lyrics in his eulogy. No one knws better than family and soldier/comerades the true cost of freedom. There are extended versions of these lyrics, and Stephan Stills used to use this song in his encores. I listened as he played these lyrics and sevral more verses he seemed to make up as he played, very impressive. Her are the Lyrics I found

Daylight again, following me to bedI think about a hundred years ago, how my fathers bledI think I see a valley, covered with bones in blueAll the brave soldiers that cannot get older been askin' after youHear the past a callin', from Ar- -megeddon's sideWhen everyone's talkin' and noone is listenin', how can we decide?

@ceresmary that's a great take and I'm glad you brought up the live "Manassas" version. It brings in Daylight Again, which @haskmojo included the lyrics for and some of those lyrics you were asking about are from that.

It's not the first thing that's kept Stills up all night (4 + 20) but he's clearly haunted by thoughts he cannot escape. In this case, he's thinking back 100 years to the Civil War and seeing a battlefield "covered with bones in blue." Those skeletons are not just lying there, however, they're calling out to you to come join them.

Today, my friends, we find ourselves with a similar sort of problemWe got everyone talking and nobody is listeningAll we want to do is change the course of our livesChange the way we thinkChange the face of our landChange the ways of this worldCoz it's a new time

He sings more about how change always comes, how we need to make the changes, how change is hard. About why we need change because of how much more powerful our weapons are, but he also says the most powerful weapon we have -- more powerful than any gun or bomb -- is our minds. If we can use our minds instead our guns, then:

Soldiers have been dying paying this cost and nothing ever changes. Down through our ancestry they're calling out to say it's now your turn to pay that price. Mother Earth will take you is as it did for them. And still nothing will change if that is the price we pay, if blood is the currency we use to pay for freedom.

In Manassas, you can hear Stills' frustration and its the frustration of a generation. In 1973, the US negotiated a peace with Vietnam but the fighting continued for two more years. We went into Vietnam to keep the Vietnamese people "free from communism". The Vietnamese people wanted to be free to choose their own path, and they had already been fighting the French for their freedom for years when we chose to intervene.

Other comments on this song bring up the politics. Is this patriotic? What about the people who spit on our soldiers when they came back? Stills is calling out both sides because neither listens. It's not the first time he's done so. Go back several years to Buffalo Springfield and For What It's Worth:

Other artists of the time were expressing the same sentiments. Anger was directed towards the government and the generals, the decisions makers who decided who lives and who dies and for what. What was needed was for people of any and all perspectives to just sit down and talk, use that most powerful weapon that is our minds, and find a way to a true, lasting freedom for which no one has to die to achieve. Just a few examples to consider that touch on this:

One Tin Soldier -- The Original CasteScarborough Fair/Canticle -- Simon & GarfunkelFortunate Son -- Creedence Clearwater RevivalWoodstock -- Joni MitchellWhat's Going On -- Marvin GayeGet Together -- The Youngbloods

The first talk about just how tragic losing lives to war is. The next gets right at putting the blame on the establishment that demands sacrifice but makes sure they never pay it themselves. The last three get to that theme that really drove the peace movement of the time, which was that the path to peace was one of understanding and love.

I think you missed the meaning. Remember when this song came out in the late 60's early 70's that Viet Nam was going on and Americans did NOT revere the military (spitting on them and calling them baby killers) Knowing CSNY's propensity for protest songs, I think it was a Find the cost of freedom, buried in the ground" means the bodies of those who fought for freedom will never feel it's rewards. the second line "Mother Earth will swallow you. Lay your body down." is directive in nature, and reflects the fact that politicians and the corporations want you to give your life, but that they won't. Times change the meanings of words and the context, but if you think of the times the song was made, it reflects a different image. Ohio is about the Kent State killing of four student protesters. The nation was hurting and I think the music reflects that.

Most people assume that this song is somehow patriotic or militaristic, but this kinda falls apart when you realize that Stills wrote it to be the coda of "Easy Rider." In that light, it's a statement about intolerance in America which continues to persist

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