Joni NehRitas YouTube Concert Series Part 6 is Shaken. It felt fitting to share it last Tuesday in light of the events in Ferguson and beyond. If you missed it here it again! Shaken~ By Joni NehRita Rodney In my youth I was told love would be the answer Wholeheartedly I believed While daddy shook his head and said, “you don’t know them. You know nothing of the greed of men” “How negative you are”, I said, “Don’t you know we were born the embrace the light? Haha- a realist is what I am, I know what I’ve seen in this life Try as we may, we’re not capable of change After years of fighting with peaceful resistance, A sinking feeling’s taking hold And contrary to our outward insistence A hardened heart begins to grow CH: I don’t wanna admit it but I’m shaken, shaken The hope I used to hold feels forsaken, forsaken Too many horror stories to believe that peace can be the outcome of our collective grief. So many days spent on the street with my comrades and picket signs. I learned solidarity Then I came to see our so-called leaders, even those with the right words, money could always buy “How horrible”, we said, “but we will never give up the fight.” Rhetoric and payoffs can hamper all the well-laid plans and out of me they’ve made a liar Election time brings fevered promises But for the poor things they never change Thinking back to when we were idealists But the innocence has turned to rage CH: I don’t wanna admit it but I’m shaken, shaken The hope I used to hold feels forsaken, forsaken Too many horror stories to believe that peace can be the outcome of our collective grief. **Video by: Anthony Wright https://youtube/watch?v=xavafy92Tic
Posted on: Tue, 02 Dec 2014 01:50:14 +0000
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