So I was just strummin my acoustic the other day and came up with some sweet chord changes, then I started getting some lyrics come to me, and I decided to write them down. I guess I was influenced by the sky-is-falling tone of the profit-driven mainstream media regarding current events, coupled with the utter apathy I see around all my friends, or really anyone, who doesn't care or know what to do about it. "Blood and violence in the streets breaking out in the middle east while i strum my guitar in the midst of anoter week flip on CNN, how many kids have been killed today clip on my capo, how many songs would I like to play well i live in a house not a mud-brick adobe and i worship the father the son and holy ghost sure all those protesters they must have a point and i might contemplate it while rolling my joint but i'm just one man, what else can i do when im one of the many how can i be the few Heres how... Heres how... (Solo) Well they say that the pens mightier than the sword and that musics a power too great to be ignored so im presenting the world with another protest song cause the times they are a changin' and if your movin, it cant be wrong so im walkin... so im walkin... so im walkin...
I think your lyrics are actually better than this song,but it kind of reminds me of that john mayer song "waiting on the world to change," in that its not a protest song, its like an anti protest song. That song always bugged me because instead of writing a song that actually really protests something that matters, he wrote a song about how one guy and his friends don't have the power to change anything, so they're just going to sit around and wait for the world to change. I just never even understood why he wrote the damn song in the first place if he didn't care enough about anything to write a real protest song. You make a good point in your song...the pen is mightier than the sword, and music is too great to be ignored. If you actually wrote a song really protesting something, even if its just a song sending up a big fuck you to the establishment, it would be far more powerful than this anti protest song. edit: after a second reading I think maybe I missed the point, and your song is protesting apathy? Or something? i'm not sure...
Yea I guess it was this strange sort of apathy that comes from feeling theres a disconnect between the bubble of your life and whats goin on around you, like were powerless to change or dont know how or somethin.
To answer this question you have to be informed of a few things about the music industry and it's pivotal role in shaping opinion and attitudes of the masses. First, the industry is controlled and ordered by those same circles who are shaping and molding political, economic, domestic, foreign and world policy and agenda. It's all going toward a NWO, where as they will OWN you. Now, the last sentance is vague and probably means very stereotyped-cliché things to you as seen on negative mainstream outlets. Just know that it is evil and this does exist and that it is not for our, the common slaves benefit. This agenda has roots dating bact to the time of Jesus and Biblical Abraham and is now finally being exposed by themselves as the hour of importance and catalyst for transformation draws near. Again, you will not understand. But believe me, it is worth checking out...prepare to spend lots of time in doing so. That said, that John Mayer song is to actually, subtly, plant the idea of being apathetic and to seed disassociation in the minds of youth and in the hearts of a gullible, impressionable, materialistic and droned out public. Music, pop music, is just one of many tools used to reach this state of mind numbing submission and total physiological over haul. So, to not even care, to feel powerless and even to feel trendy for being a pacifist while our controllers handle the future on our behalf and set our slavery into further bondage is what is really going on. Yes, this is the truth. Jesus will return, he is our hope.
I know how. And I tell people all day long. And you're all too apathetic and self pitying and lazy to listen or do anything.
I don't really buy into most conspiracy theories and especially not Christian-based conspiracy theories, but I do think you are correct in that the music industry wants to promote apathy.
