Idols And Heroes-Joan Baez

[ti:Idols And Heroes] [ar:Joan Baez] [al:Carry It On (Remastered)] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Idols And Heroes - Joan Baez [00:00.46]There are really two [00:01.18]Kinds of public figures [00:02.29]Or two as I really in listen [00:03.99]Into abstract gatherings of them [00:06.06]I mean there [00:06.68]There are idols and there are heroes [00:08.69]And they two this your two different functions [00:11.00]And are present in two very different [00:12.41]Kind of societies which is [00:13.86]An idol is something that really [00:15.45]Exists beyond the people [00:16.22]It does their living for them [00:17.34]An idol is something that teaches [00:18.96]People what they can't be [00:21.01]You know I mean [00:21.71]It exists in a sense [00:22.51]As a negation of the [00:23.38]People who worship it [00:24.52]You know Marilyn Monroe [00:25.42]Marilyn Monroe is worshiped you know [00:27.67]By countless numbers of people who know [00:28.89]They'll never be Marilyn Monroe [00:30.99]And because they know that they'll [00:31.99]Never be Marilyn Monroe [00:32.97]They worship Marilyn Monroe [00:34.99]I mean the other one is hero [00:36.14]And a hero is something [00:36.90]That teaches people [00:37.50]What they can be [00:39.19]I mean a hero is an available model [00:41.27]You know that doesn't exist as something [00:43.78]That's impossible to reach [00:44.70]But really exists as the embodiment [00:45.97]Of what everybody could be [00:47.82]If I'm going to be a hero [00:48.81]Then I'm going to insist on [00:49.61]Making everybody a hero I mean [00:51.13]That's the only way I can relate to it [00:52.62]Is you know because [00:53.85]My place to former life [00:54.69]That I was afraid to go [00:55.54]Out to dinner you know and eat [00:57.36]In my favorite Mexican restaurant [00:58.85]Because everybody stared when I came in [01:00.14]You know I honestly don't intend to have my [01:02.14]Life shoved around like that [01:04.11]Because it's really a [01:05.09]Very destructive process [01:06.47]How were you intending to finish [01:09.81]You didn't say [01:12.63]We're waiting for word from [01:15.58]David's lawyer's office [01:17.32]And they said nothing came in the mail [01:19.14]So we're [01:20.70]I found out this morning that [01:21.68]My appeals are over [01:23.43]And so I'm not going to surrender myself [01:26.27]Because I figure if somebody's going to take [01:28.86]Three years of your life [01:29.64]The least they can do is give you a ride [01:34.17]You know it it shouldn't be too much [01:38.61]For them to come up here and arrest me [01:40.82]I mean I don't like the idea of me walking [01:42.56]Into their jail that way [01:44.03]I mean [01:44.39]Let 'em come up and [01:45.25]And bust me for what I do [01:47.42]I'd like to give them a chance [01:48.26]To see what they're doing [01:49.63]I mean I am leaving my nice scene behind [01:51.29]I am leaving my wife pregnant [01:52.35]I am leaving all those things [01:54.28]And I think that that the least any [01:55.81]Man who comes to arrest me [01:56.77]Ought to do is see that [01:58.66]You know I mean let him know the reality [02:00.44]Of what he does let him see [02:01.46]Let him step out from [02:02.43]Behind his padded gloves [02:04.10]You know let him take his dark glasses off [02:05.46]And take a look [02:18.29]What I've been [02:18.98]What I've been [02:20.05]What I doing