Musical Worldview: Burning Spear, 'Bad to Worse'
“Even myself knows that too, why can't you
Give us all rights and justice, equality and love
It's maybe one or two, feeling the same way
All I can see and hear the people sayin' it is”
Musical Worldview: Five Man Electrical Band, 'Signs'
“And the sign said anybody caught trespassin' would be shot on sight
So I jumped on the fence and-a yelled at the house, "Hey! What gives you
the
right?"
"To put up a fence to keep me out or to keep mother nature in"
"If God was here he'd tell you to your face, Man, you're some kinda sinner"
Sign, sign, everywhere a sign
Blockin' out the scenery, breakin' my mind
Do this, don't do that, can't you read the sign?”
“And the sign said, "Everybody welcome. Come in, kneel down and pray"
But when they passed around the plate at the end of it all, I didn't have a
penny to pay
So I got me a pen and a paper and I made up my own little sign
I said, "Thank you, Lord, for thinkin' 'bout me. I'm alive and doin' fine."
Musical Worldview: Bob Weir, 'Black-Throated Wind'
“What's to be found, racing around
You carry your pain wherever you go
Full of the blues and trying to lose
You ain't gonna learn what you don't want to know
So I give you my eyes, and all of their lies
Please help them to learn as well as to see
Capture a glance and make it a dance
Of looking at you looking at me”
Musical Worldview (Instrumental Edition): Sons of Kemet, 'Throughout The Madness, Stay Strong'
Instrumental Edition: 'Throughout The Madness, Stay Strong'
Musical Worldview: the Linda Lindas, 'Never Say Never'
“Imagine the world has gone insane
And nothing we know has stayed the same
So everything else beside us has changed
But that’s not what is in our fate
And it won’t always be that way
Cause if tomorrow’s like today
Should we just wish for yesterday
For worse or for better
I've put myself back together
I know nothing lasts forever
But never say never”
Musical Worldview: Common Market 'G'Dang Diggy'
Yeah, I got desires, but above those are standards
So I ain't always trynna do exactly what the next man does
They say I come across a little self-righteous
But when it's said and done,
I'll be the first one to step up in the cipher
For real - talk of let's build,
but materials are concrete
Ideals are ethereal
I process thoughts outside the 'cattle run'
Musical Worldview: Grateful Dead, "Help On The Way"
“Without love in the dream it'll never come true”
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Musical Worldview: Robert Earl Keen, "Jesse With The Long Hair"
“Flesh and blood it turns to dust
Scatters in the wind
Love is all that matters in the end”
Musical Worldview: Yo La Tengo, "Ohm"
“Sometimes the bad guys go right on top
Sometimes the good guys lose
We try not to lose our hearts, not to lose our minds
Sometimes the bad days may take their grip
Sometimes the good days fade
But the rain today hurts the drink to drink”
Musical Worldview: Grateful Dead, "Throwing Stones"
“Picture a bright blue ball just spinning, spinning free
Dizzy with eternity
Paint it with a skin of sky, brush in some clouds and sea
Call it home for you and me
A peaceful place, or so it looks from space
A closer look reveals the human race
Full of hope, full of grace, is the human face
But afraid we may lay our home to waste
There's a fear down here we can't forget
Hasn't got a name just yet
Always awake, always around
Singing ashes, ashes, all fall down
Ashes, ashes, all fall down
Now watch as the ball revolves and the night-time falls
And again the hunt begins and again the blood wind calls
By and by, again, the morning sun will rise
But the darkness never goes from some men's eyes
(Well I know)
It strolls the sidewalk and it rolls the streets
Staking turf, dividing up meat
Nightmare spook, piece of heat
It's you and me, you and me
Click flash blade in ghetto night
Rudy's looking for a fight
Rat cat alley, roll them bones
Need that cash to feed that Jones
And the politicians throwing stones
Singing ashes, ashes, all fall down
Ashes, ashes, all fall down
Commissars and pinstripe bosses roll the dice
Anyway they fall, guess who gets to pay the price?
Money green, or proletarian gray
Selling guns instead of food today
So the kids they dance and shake their bones
And the politicians throwing stones
Singing ashes, ashes, all fall down
Ashes, ashes, all fall down
Heartless powers try to tell us what to think
If the spirit's sleeping then the flesh is ink
History's page will be neatly carved in stone
The future's here, we are it, we are on our own
On our own, on our own, we are on our own
If the game is lost, then we're all the same
No one left to place or take the blame
We will leave this place an empty stone
Or that shining ball of blue we call our home
So the kids, they dance, they shake their bones
And the politicians throwing stones
Singing ashes, ashes, all fall down
Ashes, ashes, all fall down
Shipping powders back and forth
Singing black goes south and white comes north
And the whole world full of petty wars
Singing I got mine and you got yours
While the current fashions set the pace
Lose your step, fall out of grace
The radical, he rant and rage
Singing someone got to turn the page
And the rich man in his summer home
Singing just leave well enough alone
But his pants are down, his cover's blown
And the politicians throwing stones
So the kids, they dance, they shake their bones
'Cause it's all too clear we're on our own
Singing ashes, ashes, all fall down
Ashes, ashes, all fall down
Picture a bright blue ball just spinning, spinning free
It's dizzying, the possibilities
Ashes, ashes, all fall down”
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Musical Worldview: Billy Bragg and Wilco, "All You Fascists"
“I'm gonna tell you fascists
You may be surprised
The people in this world
Are getting organized
You're bound to lose
You fascists bound to lose
Race hatred cannot stop us
This one thing we know
Your poll tax and Jim Crow
And greed has got to go
You're bound to lose
You fascists bound to lose.
All of you fascists bound to lose:
I said, all of you fascists bound to lose:
Yes sir, all of you fascists bound to lose:
You're bound to lose! You fascists:
Bound to lose!
People of every color
Marching side to side
Marching âcross these fields
Where a million fascists dies
You're bound to lose
You fascists bound to lose!
I'm going into this battle
And take my union gun
We'll end this world of slavery
Before this battle's won
You're bound to lose
You fascists bound to lose!”
Musical Worldview: Grateful Dead, "Days Between"
“There were days
And there were days
And there were days I know
When all we ever wanted
Was to learn and love and grow”
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Musical Worldview: Matthew E. White and Lonnie Holley, 'Matthew E. White and Lonnie Holley: 'Broken Mirror (A Selfie Reflection)/Composition 9'
“in the activities of selfies,
don’t make yourself selfish”
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Musical Worldview: Roger Clyne and the Peacemakers, 'Love, Come Lighten My Load'
“Love, come lighten my load
Love, come lighten my load
An empty heart is the heaviest weight to hold
Love, come lighten my load . . .
. . . Please take away my doubt
Please take away my fears
Please take away my foolish pride
Open up my hands
Open my arms
Open my eyes
Open my heart up wide
Revolution's on the inside. . . “
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Musical Worldview: Three Dog Night, 'The Family of Man'
“Whatever are we coming to?
Yes, it's so hard
With so little time and so much to do
Memories replacing the loves that we lost
Burning our bridges as soon as they're crossed
Factories built where the rivers ran
Time's running out for the family of man”
Musical Worldview: Money Mark, "Fight With Love"
“love is power, love is everything”
Musical Worldview: Paul Cauthen, 'Give 'Em Peace'
“Well, Lord
Whomever you shall be
Send your grace on the
Ones who want peace
Give 'em peace”
Musical Worldview: Jackie DeShannon, 'What the World Needs Now Is Love'
“What the world needs now is love, sweet love
It's the only thing that there's just too little of
What the world needs now is love, sweet love
No not just for some, but for everyone
Lord, we don't need another mountain
There are mountains and hillsides enough to climb
There are oceans and rivers enough to cross
Enough to last 'til the end of time
What the world needs now is love, sweet love
It's the only thing that there's just too little of
What the world needs now is love, sweet love
No, not just for some, but for everyone
Lord, we don't need another meadow
There are cornfields and wheatfields enough to grow
There are sunbeams and moonbeams enough to shine
Oh listen, Lord, if you want to know
What the world needs now is love, sweet love
It's the only thing that there's just too little of
What the world needs now is love, sweet love
No, not just for some, oh, but just for every, every, everyone”
Musical Worldview: David Ramirez, "Hallelujah, Love Is Real"
“Hallelujah, love is real!”