The following videos really made my day. Thank you Amy for letting me know. Also, thank you Matt for making them. The put tears in my eyes.
Don’t forget the 2005 and 2006 editions.
These videos are just another proof that the world is a really happy and pretty place. Let’s work together to keep it that way.
What do you do when you have a song stuck in your head? How do you get rid of it? Well, why get rid of it in the first place? Me, well, I enjoy the ride. Especially if song is as awesome song as:
Moby ~ “Dream About Me”
Babe
Oh, dream about me
Lie
On the phone to meTell me no truth
If it is bad
There’s enough in my life
To make me so sadJust dream about
Colour fills our lives
Just dream about
Someone else tonightBabe
Oh, dream about me
On the phone
Talking quietlyI wanna be yours
I want you be mine
Against red skies
For all timeSo dream about us
When you’re alone
Just dream about
How I will let goHand
HandBabe
Oh, dream about me
Lie
On the phone to meTell me no truth
If it is bad
There’s enough in my life
To make me so sadJust dream about
Colour fills our lives
Just dream about
Someone else tonightJust dream about
Colour fills our song
Just dream about
How I will let go
Michael Franti – Bomb The World
Please tell me the reason
Behind the colors that you fly
Love just one nation
And the whole world we divide
You say you’re “sorry”
Say, “there is no other choice”
But god bless the people them
Who cannot raise their voice
(chorus)
We can chase down all our enemies
Bring them to their knees
We can bomb the world to pieces
But we can’t bomb it into peace
Whoa we may even find a solution
To hunger and disease
We can bomb the world to pieces
But we can’t bomb it into peace
Violence brings one thing
More more of the same
Military madness
The smell of flesh and burning pain
So i sing out to the masses
Stand up if you’re still sane!
To all of us gone crazy
I sing this one refrain
(chorus)
And i sing power to the peaceful
Love to the people y’all
Power to the peaceful
Love to the people y’all
Bomb the world (armageddon version)
I don’t understand the whole reason why
You tellin’ us all that we need to unify
Rally round the flag
And beat the drums of war
Sing the same old songs
Ya know we heard ‘em all before
You tellin’ me it’s unpatriotic
But i call it what i see it
When i see it’s idiotic
The tears of one mother
Are the same as any other
Drop food on the kids
While you’re murderin’ their fathers
But don’t bother to show it on cnn
Brothers and sisters don’t believe them
It’s not a war against evil
It’s really just revenge
Engaged on the poorest by the same rich men
Fight terrorists wherever they be found
But why you not bombing tim mcveigh’s hometown
You can say what you want propaganda television
But all bombing is terrorism
(chorus)
We can chase down all our enemies
Bring them to their knees
We can bomb the world to pieces
But we can’t bomb it into peace
Whoa we may even find a solution
To hunger and disease
We can bomb the world to pieces
But we can’t bomb it into peace
911
Fire in the skies
Many people died
And no one even really knows why
They tellin’ lies of division and fear
We yelled and cried
No one listened for years
But like, “who put us here?”
And who’s responsible?
Well, there’s no debatin’
Cause if they ask me i say
It’s big corporations
World trade organization
Tri-lateral action
International sanctions, satan
Seems like it’ll be an endless price tag
Of wars tremendous
And most disturbingly
The death toll is so horrendous
So i send this to those
Who say they defend us
Send us into harm’s way
We should all make a rememberence that
This is bigger than terrorism
Blood is blood is blood and um
Love is true vision
Who will listen?
How many songs it takes for you to see
You can bomb the world to pieces
You can’t bomb it into peace
(chorus)
Power to the peaceful
And i say, love to the people y’all
Power to the peaceful
And i say, love to the people y’all
(chorus)
Today is Statehood Day in Slovenia. On today’s day in 1991 Slovenian government passed intent of independence. Next day (6/26/1991) Yugoslav army attacked Slovenia by driving tanks on the streets.
However, let’s celebrate the good things.
Happy Statehood Day SLOVENIA!!!
Lyrics: Slovenija, Od Kod Lepote Tvoje (A.B. Avsenik)
Povsod kamor seže pogled,
lepota zasanjana,
kje najti še lepši je svet,
kje lepše je kot doma.
Se s hribov v daljave zazrem,
prek gričev, dolin, gora,
v daljavi še modro morje uzrem,
kje lepše je kot doma.
Slovenija, odkod lepote tvoje,
pozdravljamo te iz srca in srečni tu smo doma!
Slovenija, naj tebi pesem poje,
ne išči sreče drugot kot le doma.
Povej še oblaček ti bel,
obhodil že ves si svet,
je lepša dežela še kje,
kot naša, kjer smo doma.
Je vetrič veselo zapel,
preletel je prek sveta,
in takih lepot ni našel nikjer,
kot tule, kjer sem doma.
Slovenija, odkod lepote tvoje,
pozdravljamo te iz srca in srečni tu smo doma!
Slovenija, naj tebi pesem poje,
ne išči sreče drugot kot le doma.
Without Chains, by Patti Smith
I wasn’t a man dreaming chained with the lights on in another world a netherworld four long years with nothing to say thoughts impure at Guantanamo Bay |
played guitar a young apprentice building ships loved and married heard the call is attaining wisdom a pursuit of fools journeyed to Pakistan to breathe the Koran taken in custody no reason why then a prison camp as an enemy Combatant |
Four years and a day Then flown home A version of free Chained to the floor With eyes bound One last humiliation left to endure they say I walk strange that may be so its been a long time since I walked at all |
