Name: In the Line of Duty
Duration: 4 min 22 s
Channel: Wild Bill Austin
Description: "In the Line of Duty" is a song by Wild Bill Austin and The North 40. The grim reality song about a cop who has no alternative but to shoot and kil an armed robber, and the story of the officer's remorse.

In the Line of Duty

Wild Bill Austin and The North 40

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The grim reality song about a cop who has no alternative but to shoot and kil an armed robber, and the story of the officer's remorse.

Wild Bill Austin and The North 40

Wild Bill Austin covers the following genres (in descending order) Various Country, Various Rock, Folk (acoustic), Spiritual Contemporary, Middle of the Road (

Wild Bill Austin is returning to music for the first time in 20 years. However, since 2004 he has composed over 200 additional songs and has released "Give 'em Some Rock 'n Roll," a 12 song sampler of rock, folk and country on Local Scene Record Label, Big Bear Lake, CA. http://www.localscenerecordlabel.com/home.html He is now proud to rejoin sunFlower Music, as his career shifts into 6th gear!! His 2nd CD, "Ballad of the Asian Cowgirl" has all 16 songs (primarily country) selected and is waiting capitalization for a producer, musicians and sound studio. Our goal is a June 2009 release. And be on the lookout for "Fears We Left Behind," on sunFlower in the 2nd half of 2010. Please be on the lookout for Wild Bill and his songs!

Song Info

Genre

Country • Country General

Charts

Peak #417

Peak in subgenre #138

Author

Wild Bill Austin

Rights

Uploaded

April 05, 2009

Track Files

MP3

MP3 4.0 MB • 128 kbps • 4:22

Story behind the song

A crowd gathers outside a convenince store.  The clerk, held at gunpoint, presses the panic button.  Two police cruisers pull into the parking lot as the perpetrator's weapon discharges.  He panics and runs out of the store, waving his pistol in the air.  He faces an ultimatum to "drop the gun" as the song begins.....

Lyrics

In the Line of Duty                    © 2008          Wild Bill Austin


Verse 1	A single shot invades the evening air.
		A crowd was standing by and watched him fall.
		The expression of surprise there in those fading eyes,
		Is a vision I will, long, recall.
		As he fell, a car door opened wide.
		A woman asked to have a word with me.
		Why'd I have to go and shoot him down
		When he was needed by...his family?


Lift		If only I could bring him back, to stand trial, and have his day...
		People at the scene were in jeopardy; there was no other way.


Chorus	In the line of duty, we find the greater good,
		Then do what we have to do--not always as we should.
		Sometimes, it will not matter, whichever course we choose.
		When there's violence in the air, There('re) so many ways to lose.


Verse 2	For forty-seven dollars and some change,
		One misguided soul had lost it all.
		I watched the scene, playing in my mind.
		Again, I saw him close his eyes and fall.
		The Coroner spoke softly as he told me,
		That the victim, still inside, was doing fine.
		His assailant, though, had lost his final battle,
		And just a while before, ran out of time.


Bridge		And just what is our role in all these desperate acts of greed?
		Should we give from some of what we have to lessen what they need?


Break


Chorus


Lift


Sunday October 12, 2008

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