I like a routine/pattern to pursue… Continuing on the theme of Refuge (and using lyrics), this is from Gimme Shelter.

The lyric’s narrative doesn’t have the same ‘sensitivity’ as my previous from Across the Borderline – I think it is more sensationalist than emotive – but it was interesting to have that link with the word ‘just’ and further sense of fragility and jeopardy,

‘War, children
It’s just a shot away
It’s just a shot away
War, children
It’s just a shot away
It’s just a shot away’

I’m continuing to explore the Regfuge theme and was listening to that great song Across the Border (James Luther Dickinson / John Robert Hiatt / Ryland Peter Cooder) which is of course about escape and seeking refuge,

‘Up and down the Rio Grande
A thousand footprints in the sand
Reveal a secret no one can define
The river flows on like a breath
In between our life and death
Tell me who’s the next to cross the borderline’

but the telling word is ‘just’ from the final verse which emphasises the tenuous security that’s offered, as well as the illusion of escape and freedom,