Musical Worldview: the Avett Brothers, "Ten Thousand Words"
“Ain't it like most people? I'm no different
We love to talk on things we don't know about
Ain't it like most people? I'm no different
We love to talk on things we don't know about”
Musical Worldview: Harold Melvin & the Blue Notes, "Wake Up Everybody"
“Wake up everybody no more sleepin in bed
No more backward thinkin time for thinkin ahead
The world has changed so very much
From what it used to be so
There is so much hatred war an' poverty
Wake up all the teachers time to teach a new way
Maybe then they'll listen to whatcha have to say
Cause they're the ones who's coming up and the world is in their hands
When you teach the children teach em the very best you can
The world won't get no better if we just let it be
The world won't get no better we gotta change it yeah, just you and me
Wake up all the doctors make the ol' people well
They're the ones who suffer an' who catch all the hell
But they don't have so very long before the Judgement Day
So won'tcha make them happy before they pass away
Wake up all the builders time to build a new land
I know we can do it if we all lend a hand
The only thing we have to do is put it in our mind
Surely things will work out they do it every time
The world won't get no better if we just let it be
The world won't get no better
We gotta change it yeah, just you and me (yeah, yeah)
Change it, yeah (change it, yeah) just you and me
Change it, yeah (change it, yeah) can't do it alone
Need some help, y'all (y'all)
Can't do it alone (can't do it alone)
Yeah (yeah)
Wake up, everybody
Wake up, everybody
Need a little help, y'all (yes I do)
Need a little help (say it, boy)
Need some help, y'all (uh-huh)
To change the world
From what it used to be
Can't do it alone
Can't do it alone
Need some help, yeah
Need some help, yeah
Wake up, everybody
Get up, get up
Get up, get up
Wake up, come on, come on
Wake up, everybody
Teach a new way
Maybe then they'll listen
To what you have to say
Wake up, everybody
No more sleepin' in bed
No more backward thinkin'
Time for thinkin' ahead
Come on
Wake up, everybody
I'm talking about the dope pusher
Stop pushin' that dope
Dope users
Stop usin' the dope
Wake up, yeah
False lyin'
False preachin'
False teachin'
Wake up, y'all
Come on
You preachers
Start preachin' what you teach
Teach the truth
Wake up, preachers
All liars (all liars)
Politicians
Stop lyin' (stop lyin')
Why don't somebody
Help the poor people
Help the babies
You businessmen
Start treatin' (start treatin')
Start treatin' (start treatin')
Start treatin' (start treatin')
Wake up, yeah
Wake up, yeah
Wake up, yeah
Wake up, yeah
Yeah, yeah
Ain't don't matter
What race, creed or color
Everybody we need each other
Wake up, everybody
Well, you see
We need
Wake up, everybody
We need
No more sleepin' in bed
No more backward thinkin'
Time for thinkin' ahead
Wake up, all you teachers
Time to teach a new way
They're the ones that suffer
Each and everyday
Teach the children
Teach the babies
Teach the children
Teach the babies
Teach the children
They are the ones who's coming out”
Musical Worldview: Erykah Badu: "Drama"
“Listen people listen
Lift up your hearts to God
Lift up your soul
Teach your children wisdom
Reality today so they can live tomorrow”
Musical Worldview: Blue Scholars, "Solstice: Reintroduction"
“The biggest hypocrites usually quote the most scriptures”
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Musical Worldview: Joe Strummer and the Mescaleros, "Johnny Appleseed"
“Lord, there goes Martin Luther King
Notice how the door closes when the chimes of freedom ring
I hear what you're saying, I hear what he's saying
Is what was true now no longer so
Hey, I hear what you're saying
Hey, I hear what he's saying
If you're after getting the honey, hey
Then you don't go killing all the bees”
Musical Worldview: Hiss Golden Messenger, "If It Comes in the Morning"
“hope is contagious”
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Musical Worldview: Mike Doughty, "Move On (Bloom Like the Sunlight in My Song)"
“Yeah, I believe the war is wrong
Don't believe that nations can be steered
Lead the world by smarts and compassion
By example, not coercion, force and fear”
Musical Worldview: Marvin Gaye, "Inner City Blues (Make Me Holler)"
“Rockets, moon shots
Spend it on the have nots
Money, we make it
Fore we see it you take it”
Musical Worldview: the Specials, "A Message To You Rudy"
“Stop your fooling around,
Time to straighten right out.
Better think of your future
Else you'll wind up in jail.
Rudy, A message to you you,
Rudy, A message to you.”
Musical Worldview: Beastie Boys, "It Takes Time To Build"
“it takes time to build
(It takes a second to wreck it)
it takes time to build”
Musical Worldview: James, "Zero"
“We're all gonna die
Prescriptions and pills
So live true your shine
Don't live unfulfilled
Life's a free climb
No ropes
Let go of the mind
Lie back and float”
Musical Worldview: Cage The Elephant, "Ain't No Rest For The Wicked"
“I saw a preacher man in cuffs
He'd taken money from the church
He'd stuffed his bank account with righteous dollar bills
But even still I can't say much
Because I know we're all the same
Oh yes, we all seek out to satisfy those thrills”
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Musical Worldview: Seryn, "Figuring Out"
“Find beauty in the mystery
there are some things we will never see
You don’t always have to have the answers to everything
Be still, you don’t always have to have an answer
Be still, you’ll be fine with a little bit of doubt.
Well, I’m figuring out you don’t always have to figure it out.”
Musical Worldview: Cat Stevens, "Father and Son"
“I was once like you are now
And I know that it's not easy
To be calm when you've found
Something going on
But take your time, think a lot
Think of everything you've got
For you will still be here tomorrow
But your dreams may not”
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: 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: 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: 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'