Song Description

"Dangerous Times"(2007 LA Music Awards Best Song Nominee - AC/AAA, France's 100% Song Contest Finalist - Performance, VH1 Finalist - AC/AAA, UK's Singer-Songwriter Awards, Billboard, Unisong, UK Song Contest Awards) with it's upbeat sound is actually RZ's thought provoking, dark analogy of the old Wild West to current events in America and the world. Is this 1870's Deadwood or New York in the year 2000? "It seems incomprehensible to me how much misguided machismo and violence still exist in what's called modern civilization.", states Evans. James Gerard is again on keyboards while Chris Carter returns on guitar. The background vocals here are by Sheryl Marshall (John Medeski, Buster Poindexter, Ru Paul, NYC's Uptown Horns) and Soozie Tyrell (Bruce Springsteen, Sheryll Crow, Shawn Colvin, Elvis Costello). "There's a line of mourners and a mother's tears/ Nothin's changed around here for a hundred years".

Lyrics

Around here lately it's like the old Wild West
With cowboys packin' six guns beneath their vests
There's Uzi's and AK's, there's Colt 45's
There's clouds of gunsmoke in the Manhattan sky
So grab your hat, run for cover
Smith and Wesson just might dial your number

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Call the sheriff, there's outlaws in the street
Call the cavalry, there's bandits on the corner
There's desperadoes on the avenue
These are dangerous times on the new frontier

Hey, Mr. Cowboy, does that gun make you strong?
Does it make you feel big, does it let you belong?
Does it make you bold, does it make you brave?
Will it make you famous like Jesse James?
Be quick to the draw, squeeze that trigger
Be a legend, Gotham loves a winner

We had a shootout on Broadway Saturday night
Another cowboy took a bullet between the eyes
There's a line of mourners and a mother's tears
Nothin's changed 'round here for a hundred years
This is Deadwood, this is Dodge City
This is Tombstone, this is New York City

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