Musical Worldview: Plastic Ono Band, 'Give Peace a Chance'
“Ev'rybody's talking about
Bagism, Shagism, Dragism, Madism, Ragism, Tagism
This-ism, that-ism, is-m, is-m, is-m
All we are saying is give peace a chance”
Musical Worldview (SBC 2021 Edition): Derek Webb, "Wedding Dress"
The SBC chose to sing "Modest is Hottest." Maybe this should have been their theme song . . .
“If you could love me as a wife.
For my wedding gift your life.
Should that be all I ever need?
Is there more I'm looking for?
Should I read between the lines?
Look for blessings in the skies?
Make me handsome rich and white.
Is that really what you want?
'Cause I am a whore I do confess.
I put you on just like a wedding dress,
And I run down the aisle,
Run down the aisle.
I am a prodigal with no way home.
I put you on just like a ring of gold,
And I run down the aisle,
Run down the aisle, to you.
Could you love this bastard child?
No, I don't trust you to provide.
With one hand in a pot of gold
And the other in your side.
'Cause I am so easily satisfied.
With the call of a lover's soul as wild.
I would take a little cash
Over your very flesh and blood.
'Cause I am a whore I do confess.
I put you on just like a wedding dress,
And I run down the aisle,
Run down the aisle.
I am a prodigal with no way home.
I put you on just like a ring of gold
And I run down the aisle,
Run down the aisle, to you.
'Cause money cannot buy
A husbnd's jealous eye.,
When you have knowingly
Deceived his wife.
'Cause I am a whore I do confess.
I put you on just like a wedding dress,
And I run down the aisle,
Run down the aisle.
I am a prodigal with no way home.
I put you on just like a ring of gold,
And I run down the aisle,
Run down the aisle, to you.
'Cause I am a whore I do confess.
I put you on just like a wedding dress,
And I run down the aisle,
Run down the aisle.
I am a prodigal with no way home.
I put you on just like a ring of gold,
And I run down the aisle,
Run down the aisle, to you.”
Musical Worldview: Derek Webb, "A King and A Kingdom"
“Who's your brother? Who's your sister?
You just walked passed him
I think you missed her
As we're all migrating to a place where our father lives
Because we married into a family of immigrants
So my first allegiance is not to a flag, a country or a man
No, my first allegiance is not to democracy or blood
It's to a King and a kingdom
There are two great lies that I've heard
"The day you eat of the fruit of that tree, you will not surely die"
And that Jesus Christ was a white, middle-class republican
And if you wanna be saved, you have to learn to be like Him
So my first allegiance is not to a flag, a country or a man
No, my first allegiance is not to democracy or blood
It's to a King and a kingdom
But nothing unifies like a common enemy
And we've got one, sure as hell
He may be living in your house
He may be raising up your kids
He may be sleeping with your wife
Oh no, he may not look like you think”
Musical Worldview: Public Enemy, 'Fight The Power'
“Our freedom of speech is freedom or death
We got to fight the powers that be
Lemme hear you say
Fight the power”
Musical Worldview: the Linda Lindas, 'No Clue'
“I just wanna see
'Cause I cant feel a thing around me
I'll tell you how to fly
If you wanna soar high and be free
Don't tell me what to say
'Cause I will find a way to be seen
Don’t leave me alone
'Cause we’ve only just begun”
Musical Worldview: the Tragically Hip, "Reformed Baptist Blues"
“I ain't no preaching man
Don't know what to do
I've got those slowly sinking reformed Baptist blues”
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Musical Worldview (Instrumental Edition): Art Blakey, 'Freedom Rider'
Musical Worldview Project (Finding wisdom in in lyrics): Instrumental Edition: Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers, “Freedom Rider.”
Musical Worldview: Grateful Dead, "Ripple"
“Reach out your hand if your cup be empty
If your cup is full, may it be again
Let it be known there is a fountain
That was not made by the hands of men”
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Musical Worldview: Olivia Rodrigo, "hope ur ok"
“I knew a boy once, when I was small
A tow-head blond, with eyes of salt
He played the drum in the marching band
His parents cared more about the Bible
Than being good to their own child
He wore long sleeves 'cause of his dad”
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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