Dedicated to the late Anne-Marie Hill, artist and activist
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Story behind the song
For Anne-Marie Hill, painter and political activist
Lyrics
The Long Grass
Words & Music by Jim Best
© Copyright by Jim Best
Verse 1
You get on an airplane for the west
At Trudeau
Montreal’s unwinding in a circle
Down below
Somewhere on the ground
Young lovers hear the sound
In the long grass
In the long grass
Verse 2
When you last saw Regina you were young,
You were poor
An activist, you slept on someone’s couch
Or the floor
You met her, talked all night
You walked out come daylight
In the long grass
In the long grass
Bridge
In the long grass, there on the outside of town
In the long grass, far from the game going down
You’d seen the faction fights and the petty schemes
What happened to your friends and their big dreams?
She said, “It’s nothing new.
We’ll overcome this too.”
Verse 3
And now your games are cynical and crass
You’re so smart
With no ideas, no vision, only cash
In your heart
Still you think of her
And the young man that you were
In the long grass
In the long grass
Coda
In the long grass
In the long grass
Pearson Airport, December 2007
