Last night as I was falling off to sleep, I stumbled across a rather relevant ending for the day. John Mayer's album Continuum started playing on my "Album of the day". It reminded me of the conversation last afternoon and the thoughts (events too) that followed. I'm very "politically averse" (if I may use the term) but as a by stander in the place where I live, I can't help but think of how I'm devoid of a choice too. I didn't get angry or scream like the others when I was forced to walk home 15 kilometers. I didn't fuss when my math paper got postponed. I don't get angry like millions of others. This is all what I really think,which,almost as if by telepathy,Mayer sang into my ears last night:
Me and all my friends
We're all misunderstood
They say we stand for nothing and
There's no way we ever could
Now we see everything that's going wrong
With the world and those who lead it
We just feel like we don't have the means
To rise above and beat it
So we keep waiting
Waiting on the world to change
It's hard to beat the system
When we're standing at a distance
So we keep waiting
Waiting on the world to change
Now if we had the power
To bring our neighbors home from war
They would have never missed a Christmas
No more ribbons on their door
And when you trust your television
What you get is what you got
Cause when they own the information, oh
They can bend it all they want
That's why we're waiting
Waiting on the world to change
We keep on waiting
Waiting on the world to change
It's not that we don't care,
We just know that the fight ain't fair
So we keep on waiting
Waiting on the world to change
And we're still waiting
Waiting on the world to change
We keep on waiting
waiting on the world to change
One day our generation
Is gonna rule the population
So we keep on waiting
Waiting on the world to change
1 comment:
Beautiful song. And yes, the attitude you talk about is what I miss in people so often...
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