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duncanrogers
Citizen
Username: Duncanrogers
Post Number: 359
Registered: 12-2001
| | Posted on Friday, April 4, 2003 - 7:46 am: |     |
Let us turn our thoughts today
To Martin Luther King
And recognize that there are ties between us
All men and women
Living on the Earth
Ties of hope and love
Sister and brotherhood
That we are bound together
In our desire to see the world become
A place in which our children
Can grow free and strong
We are bound together
By the task that stands before us
And the road that lies ahead
We are bound and we are bound
There is a feeling like the clenching of a fist
There is a hunger in the center of the chest
There is a passage through the darkness and the mist
And though the body sleeps the heart will never rest
(Chorus)
Shed a little light, oh Lord
So that we can see
Just a little light, oh Lord
Wanna stand it on up
Stand it on up, oh Lord
Wanna walk it on down
Shed a little light, oh Lord
Can't get no light from the dollar bill
Don't give me no light from a TV screen
When I open my eyes
I wanna drink my fill
From the well on the hill
(Do you know what I mean?)
- Chorus -
There is a feeling like the clenching of a fist
There is a hunger in the center of the chest
There is a passage through the darkness and the mist
And though the body sleeps the heart will never rest
Oh, Let us turn our thoughts today
To Martin Luther King
And recognize that there are ties between us
All men and women
Living on the Earth
Ties of hope and love
Sister and brotherhood
James Taylor |
Nohero
Citizen
Username: Nohero
Post Number: 1508
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Friday, April 4, 2003 - 7:51 am: | |
Early morning, April 4
Shot rings out in the Memphis sky
Free at last, they took your life
They could not take your pride
In the name of love
What more in the name of love
In the name of love
What more in the name of love
In the name of love
What more in the name of love...
Pride (In The Name Of Love) - U2 |
ashear
Citizen
Username: Ashear
Post Number: 584
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Friday, April 4, 2003 - 8:43 am: | |
Let us dedicate to ourselves to what the Greeks wrote so many years ago: to tame the savageness of man and make gentle the life of this world.
Let us dedicate ourselves to that, and say a prayer for our country and for our people.
-Robert F. Kennedy (speech on the death of Martin Luther King) |
#9Dream
Citizen
Username: 9dream
Post Number: 244
Registered: 12-2002
| | Posted on Friday, April 4, 2003 - 3:24 pm: | |
Nohero -- That verse has always bugged me. It was early evening when MLK was shot, not early morning. In Ireland it was late at night. I don't know why they got it so wrong (or why nobody mentioned it to them). |
alia
Citizen
Username: Alia
Post Number: 104
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Friday, April 4, 2003 - 3:44 pm: | |
artistic license |
#9Dream
Citizen
Username: 9dream
Post Number: 245
Registered: 12-2002
| | Posted on Friday, April 4, 2003 - 3:48 pm: | |
I'm not so sure. It isn't the only time the members of U2 have demonstrated a lack of familiarity with American history or American music. There's a scene in Rattle & Hum in which they introduce B.B. King and make it sound like they just discovered him and wanted the world to hear this great new artist. |
patty
Citizen
Username: Patty
Post Number: 332
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Saturday, April 5, 2003 - 3:39 pm: | |
I heard that "early evening, April 4" wouldn't have scanned well and that they (U2) felt it was okay. Cut the dear fellas some slack.
And thanks, Nohero. |
duncanrogers
Citizen
Username: Duncanrogers
Post Number: 374
Registered: 12-2001
| | Posted on Saturday, April 5, 2003 - 7:32 pm: | |
early evening, april 4
early morning, april 4
identical scansion so it must be some other reason. |
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