[song] [OT] Same As It Ever Was (Start Today) - Michael Franti & Spearhead

Cecilia Tanaka cecilia.tanaka at gmail.com
Thu Dec 8 02:59:59 PST 2016


On Dec 6, 2016 8:06 PM, "rooty" <arpspoof at protonmail.com> wrote:
>
> mmm - that tells a story

More music, more stories.  I love Michael Franti' sweet voice and this song
always makes me cry because remembers me very sad facts.

I Can't Breathe.  Black Lives Matter.  All Lives Matter.

"When we used to have a problem, we used to call the police / But who we
gonna call when the police make a problem?"

"If the world’s full of anger, and everybody’s gotta gun / Then what should
I say, y’all, to my teenage son?"

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There is just one love y'all and there is just one beat and when we all see
justice then we'll all see peace.

"Peace is the accumulation of millions of people, in millions of places,
doing millions of small good things.  Right now more than ever we need to
reach out to each other and find ways to do better than the way we are.  I
know there are more caring people in the world than there are hateful ones,
be they civilians, police, soldiers, Democrat, Republican, Christian,
Jewish, Moslem, Hindu, Atheist, Gay, Straight, Transgender, woman and man,
all cultures and colors.  We are all #Earthlings and we are all in this
together.  --- When pain or inequality is brought onto one of us, it is
brought onto us all.  Now is a time to put the brakes on the divisiveness
and move toward one another, to grieve, to #UNITE and raise our voices as
#ONE for peace, justice and a new way of being.  We need to hit the #reset
button hard and fast.  Stop killing.  Seriously.  Stop killing.  We can and
will do better than this!!!  We will find a better way!!!  --- Power to the
Peaceful."  -  Michael Franti

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https://youtu.be/5iWvBh6jNlY

Same As It Ever Was (Start Today)  -  Michael Franti & Spearhead

Same as it ever was, but there’s gotta be a better way
It’s the same as it ever was, but today’s a different day
You and me could make that change
But it’s the same as it ever was, we better start today

America’s a better place than it was fifty years ago
There’s been a whole lotta change, but we gotta long way to go
When we used to have a problem, we used to call the police
But who we gonna call when the police make a problem?

I’m not sayin’ that they’re all bad, I’m not sayin’ that I’m any better
All I’m just tryin’ to say is we could all do a lot better
I say it in my own house, and I say it on the street
I say it on a record, y’all, and I say it on the beat
I paint it on the wall, y’all, so everybody sees:
When we all see justice, then we’ll all see peace

It’s the same as it ever was, but there’s gotta be a better way
It’s the same as it ever was, but today’s a different day
You and me could make that change
But it’s the same as it ever was, we better start today

A revolution is a battle between the future and the past
The battle’s never over, but the future’s gonna last
Malcolm had an X, y’all, and The King had a dream
And like Spike Lee said, y’all, you should always do the right thing
If the world’s full of anger, and everybody’s gotta gun
Then what should I say, y’all, to my teenage son?
Mandela did lock down for twenty-eight years
But there’s billions more, y’all, it’s still rainin’ down tears

I say it in my own house, and I say it on the street
I say it on a record, y’all, and I say it on the beat
I paint it on the wall, y’all, ‘till everybody sees:
When we all see justice, then we’ll all see peace

It’s the same as it ever was, but there’s gotta be a better way
It’s the same as it ever was, but today’s a different day
You and me could make that change
But it’s the same as it ever was, we better start today

They can try to divide us, they can try to increase
All the pain and suffering, but this is everybody’s street
There is just ONE LOVE, y’all, there is just ONE BEAT
And when we all see justice, then we’ll all see peace

Same as it ever was, but there’s gotta be a better way
It’s the same as it ever was, but today’s a different day
You and me could make that change
But it’s the same as it ever was, we better start today

It’s the same as it ever was, we better start today
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