Sometimes people tell me I'm creative. I usually say thank you. But I don't have a creative bone in my body. I just try to write about what is right in front of me. Stories I see. Stories people tell me. This song is not taking sides on issues, just telling stories. You can certainly make up your own mind. Like...
I know Jose and he drives an old blue truck but it's always shiny and he has an icon of Mother Mary hanging from his rearview mirror. He showed me pictures of his house and his wife and children on his iphone. Jose told me he was born on the far side of the river where the drug lords rule and how he had walked for days and it was cold at night so he wrapped up in a trash bag to stay warm and he was scared. He was glad he didn't have to live that way anymore… Nothing creative here. Just telling stories.
I mourned with the parents of a wealthy son who killed the delivery man in the city in a fine part of town. They continue to build a good life but it hurts.
The list of issues that face all of us is mind numbing.....drug wars, distrust of the police forces, massive student debt, no jobs, discrimination, welfare abuse, fighting immigrants that claim they are in their homeland, violence, anorexia, drugs, entitlement, adoption abuses, suicide, alcoholism, anti-depressant abusive. And the governments are trying to fix this for us, which government should try to help, but as Elmer Kelton says in The Time It Never Rained, "Damn Federales, they're getting worse than the smallpox." :) But there is hope…
Near as I can tell, Jose, Isaiah, John & me, we all want the same simple things and as we work together, I think we get them.
Lourdes Bryant is a lady who gets this too. She is a fan who has become a friend and as she says. "Such a powerful message…I have been obsessed with this song ever since I heard him do it at his show so I decided to create a video slideshow to go with it." We're proud to share her video. Thank you Lourdes.
I know Jose and he drives an old blue truck but it's always shiny and he has an icon of Mother Mary hanging from his rearview mirror. He showed me pictures of his house and his wife and children on his iphone. Jose told me he was born on the far side of the river where the drug lords rule and how he had walked for days and it was cold at night so he wrapped up in a trash bag to stay warm and he was scared. He was glad he didn't have to live that way anymore… Nothing creative here. Just telling stories.
I mourned with the parents of a wealthy son who killed the delivery man in the city in a fine part of town. They continue to build a good life but it hurts.
The list of issues that face all of us is mind numbing.....drug wars, distrust of the police forces, massive student debt, no jobs, discrimination, welfare abuse, fighting immigrants that claim they are in their homeland, violence, anorexia, drugs, entitlement, adoption abuses, suicide, alcoholism, anti-depressant abusive. And the governments are trying to fix this for us, which government should try to help, but as Elmer Kelton says in The Time It Never Rained, "Damn Federales, they're getting worse than the smallpox." :) But there is hope…
Near as I can tell, Jose, Isaiah, John & me, we all want the same simple things and as we work together, I think we get them.
Lourdes Bryant is a lady who gets this too. She is a fan who has become a friend and as she says. "Such a powerful message…I have been obsessed with this song ever since I heard him do it at his show so I decided to create a video slideshow to go with it." We're proud to share her video. Thank you Lourdes.
