Topic: Year of Hope
Hope Is On Its Way! Ron Paul represents Hope for America. So do singer/songwriters like Marc Scibilia. Can you feel the comin' change? Listen with me as he sings!by creator
(Libertarian)
Thursday, January 17, 2008
♣ Call me an old fool. Call me sentimental. Call me either or both, I don't care.
I'm sitting at my desk today, writing this story, with tears rolling down my face. My computer is playing a song:
"Would you listen to a poet, or a prophet journal all this world's injustice? Or try to stop it? Can you feel the comin' change? Though hell is here today, Hope is on its way."
I'm sorry, I just can't stop crying. These tears are going to get down between the keys of my keyboard and wreck my computer, but I can't stop crying. Download this music! Play it! -- you'll see what I mean.
Put together words and music, and what do you have? It depends on the words; on the music. Half of our brain deals with one, half with the other. Music integrates the hemispheres and makes us, if only briefly, whole once again.
Take Ron Paul's message of Hope for America. Mix in an all too heavy dose of a personal history butting heads with the "powers that be." Add a jigger of passion for the Freedom I was promised as a child, the same Liberty that Dr. Paul talks about today.
"The Freedom sound rings past politics and all its empty words. Can't be put down, the broken bell will be heard."
This is powerful stuff. Hillary doesn't have it. McCain could only wish for it. Huckabee? He may be from Hope, but he offers none. What "hope" could possibly be found in more of the same? World Magazine summed him up succinctly: "Huckabee is a Bush who can talk." More war, more spending, more and bigger and harsher, more repressive government?
"Quiet on the set, they're always acting keeping posture and poise, Let's bring an end of the tyrants and the good old boys!"
I've put the player on repeat. This music is powerful. Good music, professionally recorded by a man I never heard of before today, a friend I have yet to meet.
"Hear them now, the careless and the calloused wakin' up Those underground need a savin' some way out of their rut."
As a young man, I would tell my friends that were I ever to be faced with the terrible choice of losing either my eyes or my ears, I would needs give up my eyes first. My ears are the window on my soul, which has today been once again stirred by Marc Scibilia's "Hope Anthem."
"Can you feel the comin' change? Though hell is here today, Hope is on its way."
Now consider this: Marc Scibilia was only introduced to Ron Paul in late November. That's right, November 2007. Think about that.
I feel the change coming. Can you? What will you do about it? Will you get off the couch and canvass for Dr. Paul? Will you explain Liberty to your neighbor, to your friend at church? Will you give?
God bless you, Marc Scibilia! God speed Dr. Paul! God save the Revolution! God, please, would you once more, just once more please, bless America?
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Got teary eyed myself...not the first time while reading or listening to all our newfound real brothers and sisters. The tears welling up while listening to this song are partly from the knowledge that I have been sitting on the sidelines watching those that I am so proud of, like you, actually DOING something (in addition to donating money). We all have our own time to become a little braver...I hope my time comes soon enough to not be sorry later.
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