Consciousness: music provides the soundtrack of our lives

8 11 2014
 
– Lets all be together, then it will be all right – Philomena (age 7)
– Because, really, you know we are all brothers and sisters, even you and Papi are brothers and sisters. The whole world is a family, you know. – Luna (age 5)  

Music provides the soundtrack to our lives. Think of the most formative moments of your life, your most cherished occasions, most difficult experiences. It’s likely a song is associated with that memory. The same is true not only for individuals, but for communities. Music fuels revolutions and revelations. It fuels popular protests, prophetic predictions, social justice and political liberations.

– Varun Soni, University of Southern California, Dean of Religious Life

One Love! One Heart!
Let’s get together and feel all right.
Hear the children cryin’ (One Love!);
Hear the children cryin’ (One Heart!),
Sayin’: give thanks and praise to the Lord and I will feel all right;
Sayin’: let’s get together and feel all right. Wo wo-wo wo-wo!Let them all pass all their dirty remarks (One Love!);
There is one question I’d really love to ask (One Heart!):
Is there a place for the hopeless sinner,
Who has hurt all mankind just to save his own beliefs?One Love! What about the one heart? One Heart!
What about – ? Let’s get together and feel all right
As it was in the beginning (One Love!);
So shall it be in the end (One Heart!),
All right!
Give thanks and praise to the Lord and I will feel all right;
Let’s get together and feel all right.
One more thing!Let’s get together to fight this Holy Armagiddyon (One Love!),
So when the Man comes there will be no, no doom (One Song!).
Have pity on those whose chances grows t’inner;
There ain’t no hiding place from the Father of Creation.Sayin’: One Love! What about the One Heart? (One Heart!)
What about the – ? Let’s get together and feel all right.
I’m pleadin’ to mankind! (One Love!);
Oh, Lord! (One Heart) Wo-ooh!Give thanks and praise to the Lord and I will feel all right;
Let’s get together and feel all right.
Give thanks and praise to the Lord and I will feel all right;
Let’s get together and feel all right.

– Marley

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