Musical Worldview: Karen O and the Kids, "All Is Love"
“L.O.V.E, it’s a mystery
Where you’ll find me, where you’ll find
All is Love, is love, is love, is love
Hey, ooh"
Musical Worldview: Fontaines D.C., 'Love Is The Main Thing'
“Love is the main thing”
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Musical Worldview: Massive Attack, "Protection"
“I stand in front of you
I'll take the force of the blow
Protection”
Musical Worldview: Pharoah Sanders, "Love Is Everywhere"
“Love is everywhere
Love is in us all”
Musical Worldview: Bob Marley and the Wailers, "Exodus"
“Open your eyes, and look within
Are you satisfied
With the life you're living”
Musical Worldview: M.I.A., "Pull Up The People"
“Pull up the people
Pull up the poor”
Musical Worldview: Future Islands, "Seasons (Waiting On You)"
“People change
But you know some people never do
You know, when people change
They gain a peace, but they lose one too”
Musical Worldview: Scientist, "Plague of Zombies"
“And the good Lord said
Love thy brother than thyself and
Everything will be made possible to you
Because he can surely turn the tides
He can push the tempest by
And all he asked
Of men and men and men and men
Is that we give each other love”
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Musical Worldview: Bob Dylan: "Standing In The Doorway"
“I know the mercy of God must be near”
Musical Worldview: Bob Marley and the Wailers, "Them Belly Full (But We Hungry)"
“Cost of livin' gets so high
The rich and poor they start to cry
And now the weak must get strong, they say
Oh, what a tribulation, saying
My belly full but me hungry
A hungry mob is an angry mob
A rain a-fall but the dirt it tough
A pot a-cook but the food no 'nough”
Musical Worldview: Bob Marley and the Wailers, "Burnin' and Lootin'"
“This morning I woke up in a curfew
O God, I was a prisoner, too - yeah!
Could not recognize the faces standing over me
They were all dressed in uniforms of brutality. Eh!
How many rivers do we have to cross
Before we can talk to the boss? Eh!
All that we got, it seems we have lost
We must have really paid the cost
Burnin' and a-lootin' tonight
(Say we gonna burn and loot)
Burnin' and a-lootin' tonight
(One more thing)
Burnin' all pollution tonight
(Oh, yeah, yeah)
Burnin' all illusion tonight
Oh, stop them!
Give me the food and let me grow
Let the Roots Man take a blow
All them drugs gonna make you slow now
It's not the music of the ghetto. Eh!
Weepin' and a-wailin' tonight
(Ooh, can't stop the tears!)
Weepin' and a-wailin' tonight
(We've been suffering these long, long-a years)
Weepin' and a-wailin' tonight
(Will you say cheer?)
Weepin' and a-wailin' tonight
(But where?)
Give me the food and let me grow
Let the roots man take a blow
All them drugs gonna make you slow
It's not the music of the ghetto
We gonna be burnin' and a-lootin' tonight
(To survive, yeah!)
Burnin' and a-lootin' tonight
(Save your babies' lives)
Burning all pollution tonight
(Pollution ...)
Burning all illusion tonight
(Lord-a, Lord-a, Lord-a, Lord!)
Burning and a-looting tonight
Burning and a-looting tonight
Burning all pollution tonight”
Musical Worldview: Vigilantes of Love, "Black Cloud O'er Me"
“Yeah, and pride she's a pit of many snakes
And reason, well, she's still the devil's whore
Though the cannonball may fly
And the sabers baptize
Well, turn the eyes of faith upon the Lord”
Musical Worldview Project Playlist 02
As the Musical Worldview Project (finding wisdom in lyrics) hits 100 entries, what better way to celebrate than an hour-long playlist of hand-picked Holiday At The Sea Musical Worldview Project family favorites.
Sit back, relax, and let the music take your mind (and encourage you to think about what kind of world you’d like to see and what kind of person you’d like to become to make that world a reality).
We’re all in this together.
Keep on keepin’ on.
Playlist (with links to each song’s original appearance in the Musical Worldview Project, including the lyrics that prompted the song’s inclusion):
Bob Marley and the Wailers: “War” // “Trouble No More”
De La Soul: “Pain”
Musical Worldview Project Playlist 01
As the Musical Worldview Project (finding wisdom in lyrics) hits 100 entries, what better way to celebrate than an hour-long playlist of hand-picked Holiday At The Sea Musical Worldview Project family favorites.
Sit back, relax, and let the music take your mind (and encourage you to think about what kind of world you’d like to see and what kind of person you’d like to become to make that world a reality).
We’re all in this together.
Keep on keepin’ on.
Playlist (with links to each song’s original appearance in the Musical Worldview Project, including the lyrics that prompted the song’s inclusion):
Musical Worldview: "Pain," De La Soul
“No gain without tears and sweat
They claim blue skies with white clouds, steady drifting
When pain come to get ya (it hit ya like flu)
Better times will pick ya (do what you gotta do)
To earn focus in the stormy weather
Come out the tunnel to the light saying”
Musical Worldview: Vigilantes of Love, "She Walks On Roses"
“Got a skeleton closet
we've got a dreaded disease
I been looking high and low
for my skeleton key
And they say that pride
well it is the chief of sins
Well I know all of his deputies
I'm well acquainted with them”
Musical Worldview: A Tribe Called Quest, "Excursions"
“Why do I say that, 'cause I gotta speak the truth man
Doing what we feel for the music is the proof and
Planted on the ground, the act is so together
Bonafied strong, you need leverage to sever”
Musical Worldview: Massive Attack, "Teardrop"
“Love, love is a verb
Love is a doing word”
Musical Worldview: Lucinda Williams, "Car Wheels On A Gravel Road"
“Could tell a lie but my heart would know”
Musical Worldview: Common, "Letter To The Free"
“Southern leaves, southern trees we hung from
Barren souls, heroic songs unsung
Forgive them father they know this knot is undone
Tied with the rope that my grandmother died
Pride of the pilgrims affect lives of millions
Since slave days separating, fathers from children
Institution ain't just a building
But a method, of having black and brown bodies fill them
We ain't seen as human beings with feelings
Will the U.S. Ever be us? Lord willing!
For now we know, the new Jim Crow
They stop, search and arrest our souls
Police and policies patrol philosophies of control
A cruel hand taking hold
We let go to free them so we can free us
America's moment to come to Jesus
Freedom (freedom)
Freedom come (freedom come)
Hold on (hold on)
Won't be long (won't be long)
Freedom (freedom)
Freedom come (freedom come)
Hold on (hold on)
Won't be long (won't be long)
The caged birds sings for freedom to bring
Black bodies being lost in the american dream
Blood of black being, a pastoral scene
Slavery's still alive, check amendment 13
Not whips and chains, all subliminal
Instead of 'nigga' they use the word 'criminal'
Sweet land of liberty, incarcerated country
Shot me with your ray-gun
And now you want to trump me
Prison is a business, America's the company
Investing in injustice, fear and long suffering
We staring in the face of hate again
The same hate they say will make america great again
No consolation prize for the dehumanized
For america to rise it's a matter of black lives
And we gonna free them, so we can free us
America's moment to come to Jesus”