Friday, December 19, 2008

one of my favorite musicians, Amos Lee, wrote this awesome song called Freedom....the back story i believe, goes like this: Amos Lee used to be a teacher, and he was having problems with some of his students fighting...so he was wrote the song about tryingto get them to see that basically, when ya break it down, fighting and hurting other people doesn't really make you feel better...and on a personal note, i wanna add that things and statuses and beliefs don't make one person better than the next. or just because you're strong enough to beat someone down doesn't make you better than them...so here's some of the lyrics-

"Don't wanna blame the rich for what they got
Don't point a finger at the poor for what they have not
Though the politician and the priest
Live in the belly of the beast because we fed it

Freedom is seldom found
By beating someone to the ground
Telling them how everything is gonna be now"

i think the man might be on to something.....

6 comments:

brian nixon said...

wrong

britani said...

oh yea?

Matthew Snyder said...

I love Amos Lee. Glad you do too :)

brian nixon said...

this song is way better

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yiWsWzUgcXE

Unknown said...

oh my, this is great Britani....I have to turn this into a lesson for my students - thanks!

Unknown said...

ok - I can see I'm signed in under your daddy...I also listened to Brian's suggestion on youtube...it is fantastic as well.