Musical Worldview: Grateful Dead, "Althea"

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“Ain't nobody messin' with you but you”




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Musical Worldview: Erykah Badu, "On And On"

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“The man that knows something
Knows that he knows nothing at all”


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Musical Worldview: Billy Bragg and Wilco, "Blood Of The Lamb"

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“I am washed, yes I'm washed
I am washed in the blood
I'm all washed in the blood of the lamb

I'm all clean I'm all spotless
I'm all pure like the snow
I'm all washed in the blood of the lamb”




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Musical Worldview: Bob Marley and the Wailers, "Guiltiness"

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“Guiltiness (talking about guiltiness)
Pressed on their conscience, oh yeah, oh yeah
These are the big fish (these are the big fish)
Who always try to eat down the small fish
A just the small fish

And I tell you what (they would do anything)
To materialize their every wish
Oh yeah yeah yeah yeah

But woe, woe to the down pressers
They'll eat the bread of sorrow
Woe to the down pressers
They'll eat the bread of sad tomorrow
Woe to the down pressers
They'll eat the bread of sad tomorrow
Oh, yeah! Oh, yeah yeah yeah yeah”


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Musical Worldview: Sufjan Stevens, "Video Game"

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“I don’t wanna love you if won’t receive it
I don’t wanna save the world that way
I don’t wanna be your personal Jesus
I don’t wanna play your video game

I don’t wanna put the devil on a pedestal
I don’t wanna put the saints in chains
I just wanna make my life a little easier
I don’t wanna play your video game”


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Musical Worldview: Erykah Badu: "Appletree"

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“I picks my friends like I pick my fruit
And Granny told me that when I was only a youth
I don't walk around trying to be what I'm not
I don't waste my time trying ta get what you got”






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Musical Worldview: Blue Scholars, "Still Got Love"

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“Everybody get hurt, everybody cries
Everybody get hurt, everybody cries
Everybody falls down, and not everybody rise
Not everybody talks, but everybody lies
Not everybody lives, but everybody dies”



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Musical Worldview: Sault, "Pray Up Stay Up"

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“Pray up, stay up, pray up
(Can't keep me down)
Pray up, stay up, pray up
(They tryin' to keep us down)
Pray up, stay up, pray up
(How you gonna keep me down?)
Pray up, stay up, pray up
(They tryin' to keep us down)
Pray up, stay up, pray up
(How you gonna keep me down?)
Pray up, stay up, pray up
(Just wanna keep us down)
Pray up, stay up, pray up
(It's just to keep us down)
Pray up, stay up, pray up
(They wanna keep us down)”


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Musical Worldview: Common Market, "Every Last One"

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“We ‘bout to change the mentality
Of old world savagery into a new reality
One where teachers and lawyers will trade salaries
And liquor stores are razed to make way for art galleries
With one common thread we weave a global tapestry
Peace will be your motto when you follow the analogy
Down from the mountains to echo throughout the valley
It's the shouts of the soldiers in my cavalry”


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Musical Worldview: Sault, "Miracles"

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“Well, if you haven't noticed (noticed)
Look around, baby, you're the miracle
That's right, you
One hundred percent, bonafide, grade A miracle
Don't you forget that now
You might be down, but you ain't out (you ain't out)
Think about all you are
Think about all the things that had to go right
In order for you to be here”

“What you gonna do with that miracle
Is what we wanna know
That's up to you”


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Musical Worldview: Blue Scholars, "Fire for the People"

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“Spark a fire for the cold in the dark
Peace and war, both pumpin' soul in my heart
And no they can't keep what they stole from the art
And they love to see beef cuz it throws us apart
More fire for the people (more fire for the people)
Say more jobs for the people (more jobs for the people)
And more books for the people (more books for the people)
More clothes for the people (more clothes for the people)
More schools for the people (more schools for the people)
More land for the people (more land for the people)
More life for the people (and more life for the people)”


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Musical Worldview: Blue Scholars, "Blink"

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“They said talk is cheap, but war is expensive
I speak cuz it's free and these words are my weapons
Don't think for a second, I will not question
US foreign policy, imperial aggression
Inventing war for the quenching of the thirst for the oil
Cause money don't trickle down to workers who toil
You see, blood trickle down from the wounds to the soil
And broken antennas with aluminum foil be
Standing on televisions, transmitting propaganda of millionaire senators
And your so-called commander in chief, B
I'm telling you the man is a thief
In his hand he holds a plan to ban your freedom of speech
To build a pipeline, put Afghanistan on a leash
When it bites back blame the Taliban for the breach
Of security in each and every first world country
Where life more distant if you're thirsty or hungry


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Musical Worldview: Blue Scholars, "Selfportrait"

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“Rewriting what it is into what it ought to be
They made a mockery out of the possibility
But under constant revision is the poem that I be”



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Musical Worldview: Daniel Lanois, "The Maker"

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“I'm not a stranger in the hands of the Maker”






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Musical Worldview: Grateful Dead, "Box Of Rain"

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“ love will see you through”







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Musical Worldview: R.E.M., "Talk About The Passion"

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“Not everyone can carry the weight of the world”




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Musical Worldview: Mac Miller, "Blue World"

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“The devil on my doorstep bein' so shady
Mm, don't trip, we don't gotta let him in”


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Musical Worldview: Lee "Scratch" Perry, 'Some Have Fe Halla'

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“Everyone think his burden is the heaviest . . . “







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Musical Worldview: Lee "Scratch" Perry, "Bed Jammin"

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“Love is the Ten Commandments handed down by the Father”

“Love makes the little children sing”

“Hatred is ugly”

“Love unity”

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Musical Worldview: Seryn, 'Mausoleum'

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“Finally made it across
Without a clue where I am
With all of the holes in my pockets
Maybe I still have a chance

When the sun sets a little bit sooner
My appetite grows pretty thin
And you seem a little bit further
From the last place I've been

Oh
I don't have forever
You know I need that loan
All these years,
Wasted on the run

Oh we know you've got the soul my brother
Why you trying to hide?
And the heart is a beast that'll keep you bleeding,
Learn to let it lie
In the walls of the mausoleum
In the walls of the mausoleum
And we're all just trying to reach the other side

And the kids seem to grow so much faster
The older and older I get
But time is a clever invention
We are helplessly participant”


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