![]() This boring, "perfect" life foisted upon us by some higher powers (not spiritual, but political, economic, etc. In the video, his helmet is slowly filling up with water, drowning him. ![]() On No Surprises, the narrator is realizing how this life is killing him slowly. People are being used by those in power "like a pig in a cage on antibiotics"-being pacified with things like new phones and cool gadgets and houses while being sucked dry. But in Fitter, Happier the narrator(?) realizes that it's incredibly robotic to live this life. ![]() We're told to strive for some sort of ideal life, which includes getting a good job, being kind to everyone, finding a partner, getting married, having a couple kids, living in a quiet neighborhood in a nice big house, etc. Same ideas expressed in Fitter, Happier are expressed in this song. Issac Hayes’ strong voice makes the perfect strong father figure, who is possibly from beyond the grave. The power, fear, pleading in RZA and Ghostface voices are genuine and powerful. Racism towards African Americans in America would not exist if everyone sat down and listened to this song and understood the history behind the words. The most beautiful song and has so many levels. Which path will the boys choose? Issac Hayes is the voice of reason, maybe God, the angel on his shoulder, or the voice of his forefathers from beyond the grave who can see the big picture and are pleading with the boys not to continue the violence and pattern of killing their brothers, but to rise above. (This is why the music video takes place in an orphanage.) The seen, and unseen collective suffering is imbedded in the boys’ mind, consciously or subconsciously, and is haunting them. This song is written as the perspective of the boys in the street, as a whole, and what path they are going to choose as they get older and grow into men. Oh I, never dreamed, you'd leave in summer You said you would be here when, it rained Oh I, never dreamed you'd leave in summer So quit smoking the weed and the beadies and let's have this boy You say your period hasn't came, and lately I've been sleepy I had a book of African names, case our minds changed Though his death was at our greed, with no one else to blame Not have a judge telling me how and when to raise my seed So I can, discipline my son with my writing If you had decided to have it the situation I wouldn't run fromīut I'm walking, finding myself in my God We gotta see eye to eye, about family, before we can become one I wouldn't chose any other to mother my understandingīut I want our Parenthood to come from Planning It's too many black women that can say they mothers We talking spending the rest of our lives Thinking we all in love 'cause we can spend a day together Or is it that we don't trust each other enoughĪnd believe, having this child'll make us have to stay togetherĭon't I want you in my life cause you have made it better Is this unprotected love or safe to say it's lustīusting, more than the sweat in somebody you trust Happy deep down but not joyed enough to have itīut even that's a lie in less than two weeks, we was back at it Through our trials and tribulations, child's eliminationĪn integration of thoughts I feel about the situation You had our child in you, I probably never feel what you feltīut you dealt with it like the strong black woman you are Seeing you as a present and a gift in itself You said you would be here when it rained I'ma use self control instead of birth control To think my homies who did it I used to joke about, from now on Must have really thought I was God to take the life of my son Nerve I got to talk about them niggas with a gun Weekend visits and buying J's ain't gon' make me a fatherįor a while bearing a child is something I never wanted to doįor me to live forever I can only do that through you I don't want to, go through the drama of having a baby's momma Plus I wanted you to be raised within a family Having a child shouldn't have to bring out the man in me I'm sorry for taking your first breath, first step, and first cryīut I wasn't prepared mentally nor financially To someone, my life for you I would of had to leave You would've been much more than a mouth to feedīut someone, I would of fed this information I read I look into mother's stomach, wonder if you are a boy or a girlīut she and I agree, a seed we don't need The start of something, I'm not ready to bring into the world Subconsciously knowing the act I was a part of Knowing you the best part of life do I have the right to take yours You look at your brother man you gotta see yourselfīrothers getting changed real quick over nothing Yo we gotta start respecting life more y'all
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