Jud (moderator) said on February 18, 2004 19:24:

:)

I haven’t got the album yet, birthday is soon... I already have Melissa’s, so I am waiting - as Coy -to see if my gf buys it for me :P

I think I can’t wait though, as happened with Melissa’s, and I will download it :D

Btw, IG will be at Ellen’s show on Friday. ME was yesterday.. sometimes - just sometimes - I wish i lived in the US :P

malena said on February 19, 2004 18:29:

I have a question. I want to know if these Indigo girls are twins, because in my country there has been a band called Indigo who released albums abroad, so I’m just wondering if it’s the same band....

coyboyusa said on February 20, 2004 15:01:

no they aren’t twins either :)

malena said on February 21, 2004 21:15:

:)))
oh, ok, sorry...... :)
I don’t know anything about them, so....

roxtexanet said on March 1, 2004 04:47:

@antz: That lyric is gorgeous, so many references to mythology and legends, just wonderful!

These are the lyrics to the saddest song I’ve ever heard and the only one that’s ever made me choke up:

“Point Hope F.O.I.A.” - A. Ray

hey little darling
there’s something that you should know
this thing is gonna outlive us all
this thing it won’t let us go
gonna take us down to nothing
gonna eat us from the inside out
and hey little darling
i don’t want you feeling the fallout

when the cancer finally took him
i was watching the trucks pull in
me and your daddy we had a job
under the ground mining uranium
some things your daddy leaves you
and there’s some things he don’t
some things are gonna be here anyhow
and some things just won’t
one thing i want you to understand
is you ain’t gotta be no mining man
i curse the day that i went down
and i pulled that shit out of the ground

ah
ah

now we were living over in nevada
that’s where your people come from
your grandma would take me and your daddy
on down to the gunnery range
we’d sit and watch the bombs blow
and when the sun goes down
all them colors running like the painted desert
and you get to see it now

them government boys had something so damn secret
they had to hide it in the desert sand
out there the skies so big
and there ain’t no mistaking it
whose got the winning hand

ah
ah

now i’ve been all the way to alaska
to a town they call point hope
where they took some of what we got down here
just to see how it would grow
i hear the lichen bought it
now it’s running through the caribou
i said soon little darling
ah you get to feel it too
you get to feel it too
ah now soon little darling
you get to feel it too

***********

Download it if you can... it was released to raise money for a charity and was only available for a short time as an MP3, so it’s a bit tricky to find, but my God, if this song doesn’t move you, nothing will. Here’s what Amy has to say about it:

amy ray from fall 2000, the official indigo girls web site:

“i wrote pt. hope over the last few years as i was thinking about the victims of the nuclear industry cycle. on our 1995 honor tour we visited alaska and supported an effort to bring more light to the situation at a place called pt. hope. this is a place where our government buried fallout material from a bomb testing site in nevada in hopes of studying its effects on the lichen-caribou-man foodchain. this secret experiment was uncovered after the freedom of information act forced the release of the records of this crime.

“i thought about where the poisonous material originated and all that had gone into bringing it to alaska and its viscious man made journey which sickened all who were touched by it. i read a haunting article about an old indian woman who remembered watching the nevada atomic bomb test as sort of an intriguing family activity, unaware of the danger and destruction to her land. i also read many testimonials of cancer ridden miners who had brought the stuff up from the earth. the nuclear industry has depended on a lack of information and the exploitation of those that have less money and power.

“now after years of sickness and environmental catastrophies, the dangers of the uranium cycle are becoming public knowledge. information is the power we hold and we must not be intimidated by an industry that has never held our health as a priority.

“we recorded this track live in august 2000. it was a very moving experience because i think all of the players got it. hope you enjoy the song.

a ray”

(lyrics and info taken from http://www.lifeblood.net, an IG resource site created by some really dedicated fans)