by FlyingHighNow 91 Replies latest social entertainment
And yes this is not a song, it is a prayer, but not to God, to Human beings (REAL and ALIVE) who's got eyes, a mounth, a heart and arms ...
and who basically are talking and acting already, just see how much effort some of you put into electing a president, or to help few as much as you can.
WE CAN DO BETTER THAN THAT IN ACTING TOGETHER for EVERYBODY !
Still does that mean that we should forget about blaming (them or ourselfs) ? We will be able to forget about that only if we agree together about who are the biggest victimes. And go further on the why's.
The thing is, people are never going to agree about this.
BTW FBF- I agree with a great deal of what you said. And my own beliefs have changed a great deal over the past year. I guess my post was just my own very late night musings born out of a sadness about all the anger and hatred I've been seeing all over the place. I don't think it was anything especially profound, just something I needed to say.
I really don't know what the answer is. All I know is that there is a lot of negativity and hatred being perpetuated by the way a lot of people seem to go about learning what that might be. I've watched and heard people become extremely nasty and hateful to get their message across and it seems senseless to me. Tearing down and hurting people right in front of us in order to be able to speak about the plight of other people. It resolves nothing and I can't find anything good in it. My fear is that if/when a solution is found for much of this, people will be so polarized that they won't want to work together to affect whatever change is necessary anyway. For myself I am going to try to find some positives and concentrate on cultivating them so that there is something in my own world to hope for. And yes, I'll vote.
XW
Thanks for your answer XW ... as it is, I think what most people think and of course are not selfish but just powerless
but
The thing is, people are never going to agree about this.
why being pessimistic ? that is when we loose the controle (so if you are in danger what are you doing : NOTHING)
I mean we agree on the major things (but the hope about what is possible or not) ... A fair Judge and court would agree ... THE THING IS TO MAKE CLEAR ENOUGH FOR EVERYBODY That there is nothing to lose ... but everything to win.
Just imagine what 75 % of the world can product (in lots of ways) if they were not in this position (with good health) for all of us ... what is good in having them dying. when we need less than a 1 ? /personne a day to give them a chance to feel good. And when you know that this money won't come out of your wallet (but out the rich onces whish will still be rich) ... but actually get's you more product to share (as you also have things to sell)
Again - Money is a database : we could just decide to share (out of money) it is just a different system, it just doesn't allow to play with the money - but we don't need to go that far, we just need to learn to be fair and stick to it. And BTW, all those who makes money with money (are putting a credit/loan on everybody else shoulders). Only those who make money in working gives everybody the change.
I don't want to think that we have no solution, because there is a lot ... TALKING is the FIRST STEP / NOT WAR ... and saying : WE UNDERSTAND THAT YOU ARE A VICTIME and WE'RE GONNA TAKE CARE OF THAT. (do you think that they are gonna spit on us ? and moreover if they can here YOUR voice FOR GOOD and feel the change) if they go crazy for no reason, at any step by now till I don't know when (cause the time is running against us) ... we would still have the controle anyway ...
and about
For myself I am going to try to find some positives and concentrate on cultivating them so that there is something in my own world to hope for. And yes, I'll vote.
Right that is all what we can do by now ... Cause we don't have a real and common solution yet (or a way to applie it) ... but we can propose on a bigger scale after all ... and more we are talking and learn to discuss those kind of matter in focusing on the real issues and more will be able to get there.
Thank you for all of your heartfelt and insightful comments, XW and FrenchBabyFace.
I don't think consciousness raising songs are purely a product of the 1960s. The first song I posted was released in 1996.People are still writing. And really I guess the knee jerk reaction to these kinds of songs is not new either. I don't think people will ever stop protesting through song. Not as long as they can think, feel, wax poetic and compose melodies.
I am moved by this kind of passionate expression by human beings. Not that we want to be reminded every minute of everyday, but sometimes we all need to remember that life is very bad for many of our fellow human beings through out this earth. We don't ever know when circumstances will change and then we find ourselves among them. I hope when that happens that people will write songs for us.
Here is a song by Bruce Cockburn from the 1980s:
If I Had A Rocket Launcher
Here comes the helicopter -- second time today
Everybody scatters and hopes it goes away
How many kids they've murdered only God can say
If I had a rocket launcher...I'd make somebody pay
I don't believe in guarded borders and I don't believe in hate
I don't believe in generals or their stinking torture states
And when I talk with the survivors of things too sickening to relate
If I had a rocket launcher...I would retaliate
On the Rio Lacantun, one hundred thousand wait
To fall down from starvation -- or some less humane fate
Cry for guatemala, with a corpse in every gate
If I had a rocket launcher...I would not hesitate
I want to raise every voice -- at least I've got to tryEvery time I think about it water rises to my eyes.
Situation desperate, echoes of the victims cryIf I had a rocket launcher...Some son of a bitch would die
Flyin'
bttt
"And someday soon we'll stop to ponder what on earth's this spell we're under...we made the grade and still we wonder WHO THE HELL WE ARE"
From "The Grand Illusion" - Styx, 1977
TB
THE MAN IN BLACK JOHNNY CASH 1971
Well, you wonder why I always dress in black,
Why you never see bright colors on my back,
And why does my appearance seem to have a somber tone.
Well, there's a reason for the things that I have on.I wear the black for the poor and the beaten down,
Livin' in the hopeless, hungry side of town,
I wear it for the prisoner who has long paid for his crime,
But is there because he's a victim of the times.I wear the black for those who never read,
Or listened to the words that Jesus said,
About the road to happiness through love and charity,
Why, you'd think He's talking straight to you and me.Well, we're doin' mighty fine, I do suppose,
In our streak of lightnin' cars and fancy clothes,
But just so we're reminded of the ones who are held back,
Up front there ought 'a be a Man In Black.I wear it for the sick and lonely old,
For the reckless ones whose bad trip left them cold,
I wear the black in mournin' for the lives that could have been,
Each week we lose a hundred fine young men.And, I wear it for the thousands who have died,
Believen' that the Lord was on their side,
I wear it for another hundred thousand who have died,
Believen' that we all were on their side.Well, there's things that never will be right I know,
And things need changin' everywhere you go,
But 'til we start to make a move to make a few things right,
You'll never see me wear a suit of white.Ah, I'd love to wear a rainbow every day,
And tell the world that everything's OK,
But I'll try to carry off a little darkness on my back,
'Till things are brighter, I'm the Man In Black.
Well a man come on the 6 o?clock news
Said somebody?s been shot, somebody?s been abused
Somebody blew up a building
Somebody stole a car
Somebody got away
Somebody didn?t get too far yeah
They didn?t get too far
Grandpappy told my pappy, back in my day, son
A man had to answer for the wicked that he done
Take all the rope in Texas
Find a tall oak tree, round up all of them bad boys
Hang them high in the street for all the people to see that
[Chorus:]
Justice is the one thing you should always find
You got to saddle up your boys
You got to draw a hard line
When the gun smoke settles we?ll sing a victory tune
We?ll all meet back at the local saloon
We?ll raise up our glasses against evil forces
Singing whiskey for my men, beer for my horses
We got too many gangsters doing dirty deeds
We?ve got too much corruption, too much crime in the streets
It?s time the long arm of the law put a few more in the ground
Send ?em all to their maker and he?ll settle ?em down
You can bet he?ll set ?em down ?cause
[Chorus (x2)]
Words: Julia W. Howe, 1861, alt. This hymn was born during the American civil war, when Howe visited a Union Army camp on the Potomac River near Washington, D. C. She heard the soldiers singing the song ?John Brown?s Body,? and was taken with the strong marching beat. She wrote the words the next day:
I awoke in the grey of the morning, and as I lay waiting for dawn, the long lines of the desired poem began to entwine themselves in my mind, and I said to myself, ?I must get up and write these verses, lest I fall asleep and forget them!? So I sprang out of bed and in the dimness found an old stump of a pen, which I remembered using the day before. I scrawled the verses almost without looking at the paper.
The hymn appeared in the Atlantic Monthly in 1862. It was sung at the funerals of British statesman Winston Churchill, American senator Robert Kennedy, and American president Ronald Reagan.
Music: ?John Brown?s Body,? 19th Century American camp meeting tune (MIDI, score ). John Brown was an American abolitionist who led a short lived insurrection to free the slaves.BATTLE HYMN OF THE REPUBLIC
Mine eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the Lord;
He is trampling out the vintage where the grapes of wrath are stored;
He hath loosed the fateful lightning of His terrible swift sword;
His truth is marching on.
Glory! Glory! Hallelujah! Glory! Glory! Hallelujah!
Glory! Glory! Hallelujah! His truth is marching on.
I have seen Him in the watch fires of a hundred circling camps
They have builded Him an altar in the evening dews and damps;
I can read His righteous sentence by the dim and flaring lamps;
His day is marching on.
Glory! Glory! Hallelujah! Glory! Glory! Hallelujah!
Glory! Glory! Hallelujah! His day is marching on.
I have read a fiery Gospel writ in burnished rows of steel;
?As ye deal with My contemners, so with you My grace shall deal?;
Let the Hero, born of woman, crush the serpent with His heel,
Since God is marching on.
Glory! Glory! Hallelujah! Glory! Glory! Hallelujah!
Glory! Glory! Hallelujah! Since God is marching on.
He has sounded forth the trumpet that shall never call retreat;
He is sifting out the hearts of men before His judgment seat;
Oh, be swift, my soul, to answer Him! be jubilant, my feet;
Our God is marching on.
Glory! Glory! Hallelujah! Glory! Glory! Hallelujah!
Glory! Glory! Hallelujah! Our God is marching on.
In the beauty of the lilies Christ was born across the sea,
With a glory in His bosom that transfigures you and me:
As He died to make men holy, let us live to make men free;
[originally ?let us die to make men free]
While God is marching on.
Glory! Glory! Hallelujah! Glory! Glory! Hallelujah!
Glory! Glory! Hallelujah! While God is marching on.
He is coming like the glory of the morning on the wave,
He is wisdom to the mighty, He is honor to the brave;
So the world shall be His footstool, and the soul of wrong His slave,
Our God is marching on.
Glory! Glory! Hallelujah! Glory! Glory! Hallelujah!
Glory! Glory! Hallelujah! Our God is marching on.
Wednesday, I really like Man In Black and The Battle Hymn of The Republic brings back memories of music class in school. I guess Johnny always did wear black mostly til the day he died.
Flyin'
