With Fall approaching my heart returns to one of my favorite Autumn films, George A. Romero's The Crazies, aka Code Name Trixie. My favorite part of the movie is the swoony pessimistic Vietnam-war-protest folk song that plays over the closing credits while the quarantine officer is airlifted from the chaos in Evans City caused by the accidental release of a biological weapon by the US government to be flown over to another town where symptoms of exposure have been reported. I've scoured the internet to find the lyrics for this song, or a full version of it, and my labors have been for naught. Thus I have taken it upon myself to transcribe the lyrics from the portion of the song that plays over the end credits. Track info courtesy of IMDB.

"Heaven Help Us"
Composed by Carole Bayer Sager and Melissa Manchester
Sung by Beverly Bremers
Courtesy of Sceptor Records

Heaven help us,
Firelight, won't you let me be?
I feel so helpless,
How can I find the morning?

Daytime heroes,
Saving your piece of sunshine sky,
A safer place where I,
Can get up and find the morning.

If time is a healer,
Then why are we wounded,
And why are those people dying?

And I get so weary,
In ruins of sadness,
I can't even hear people crying,
But I know they do.

Marching soldier,
Fighting behind a losing cause,
A better war is yours,
If you can find...
The morning.

Heaven help us, heaven help us.

Current Mood: Wistful
Current Music: (Same)