If you stand in just the right place on Granby street you can see the boarding house, health care center and zoo that I am referring to in "Forgive". When I broke my wrist I did not have insurance but was informed that I would need a cast and was sent to this center. When I got there, they told me they didn't treat injury. I was refused and sent out -- and I experienced, for my first time, what too many American citizens have to. I became angry and overly frustrated with health care policies and basic human struggle, in general. I saw the pain and desperation in the eyes of many so often caused by sheer lack of information. I saw fear and rapacity evolving to more hate and more crime. To anxiety, fabrication. To killing, denial, isolation. This observation brought me full circle once again: to rely solely on faith, that which lays in my heart and is not forgotten, but to also question the answers with stark interest and hope for knowledge.
"Forgive"
I had a friend that's gone away and settled for something less. In a boarding house just down the street, in a town with unlocked doors. A health care center where I was refused and sent out. A zoo outside my window, victims laying in the gutter, fuck it move on. But I find it hard to see past my brothers and sisters struggling, borderline of desperate. Can't escape this madness that floods into the streets. A tap that's running empty while some still thirst for TRUTH it HURTS. But don't lose faith in the things you cannot see because one day all your dreams will reside in present day you see.
I know nothings wrong but something just aint right.
Jet black hair, black leather jacket, chucks. Away I walk. Don't give a fuck. Your petty thoughts and selfish greed. Deny my people what they need. Clean water, food and opportunity. Someone's watching and waiting. This racist world is surely suffering. Help me get away.
I know nothing's wrong but something just aint right.
The Lord is not forgotten in my heart.
I know nothing's wrong but something just aint right.
RAZOR KiNGS (Truth Hurts)- "Forgive"
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humbled by this post. in times of struggle & injustice...in this 'recession' that we are all currently feeling / seeing across class and ethnic lines - is in fact what some folks have been living their entire lives and lineage. nationally and globally. thank you for sharing this; you've highlighted some sharp points..many that affirm and speak to what drives me and others to take action (based on the same faith you speak of) as a community organizer. it's the lack of understanding & awareness of our God given human rights & self worth..that perpetuate the lack of access to resources, moreover - systemic change. I am going to use this song in an educational workshop we do with the youth..to motivate them not for just obtaining a higher education, but a sharper one - and one that SERVES THE PEOPLE. We're waiting on Razor Kings out here in SAN DIEGO. Rock on. im mad hype to REE-usher you in to SD as a resident again. love. progress - REE Obaña
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